One person was killed and a second wounded in a shooting inside Seattle’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) early this morning.
Here is a local report: Salisbury’s video also shows a police extraction team — handguns drawn and in a phalanx led by officers holding shields — attempt to enter the so-called autonomous zone to retrieve the victims, who according to Salisbury had already been transported to the hospital by private car.
Seattle police in a post Saturday on its blotter said officers attempted to respond to a report of shots fired inside the protest zone, but the officers “were met by a violent crowd that prevented officers safe access to the victims.”
“Officers were later informed that the victims, both males, had been transported to Harborview Medical Center by CHOP medics,” the post said.
Now there’s a lawsuit looking for a place to happen. Most states have a “standard of care” requirement for “medical personnel”. CHOP medics? Certifications, licenses recognized by the governing authority?
Or are they going with a “Good Samaritan” excuse?
A death while in the care of a “CHOP medic”? WHOO HOO, let the filings begin!