A man had his video confiscated when he recorded “the actions of a sheriff’s deputy and an ambulance crew as they prepared to take a highly intoxicated man to the hospital the night of Oct. 30.”
According to the man’s defense attorney, “[h]e had just as much right to record the activity as TV crews do during a news event”.
Here’s how it went down:
Andrew Joseph Henderson filmed what was going on, with paramedics, police, and a guy with a blood alcohol of 0.32 who was on his second liter of vodka.
The drunk guy noticed and threw a fit. If I was the neighbor and had my night interrupted by some idiot who got wasted and called an ambulance, I’d be the one throwing the fit. Then:
The paramedics “had to stop the medical assessment to ask Henderson to stop videotaping,” the complaint alleged. “When Henderson refused to stop, (paramedics) had to leave the area of the ambulance to notify the deputies”.
What kind of paramedics are these, leaving a patient who needs his damn stomach pumped in order to get cops to have a kid turn off a video camera? Sounds like they deserved to be videotaped.
