Are the Police here to protect us or to try to kill us after we call 911 for help? This is another one of those stories I could not have made up even if I wanted to.
Michelle Schreiner’s blood sugar was dangerously low when a friend called 9-1-1 and Gresham police and paramedics arrived to find her holding a syringe full of insulin.
The officer ordered Schreiner – who was dropping in and out of consciousness and was having trouble speaking or moving — to drop the syringe. He shot Schreiner with a stun gun before handcuffing her and allowing paramedics to treat her.
Don’t worry, she just won a settlement in court for $37,500 last week against the piece of **** thug with a badge that did all of this to her. But it never would have come to this if cops were not involved and everyone else was able to just do their jobs.
I really feel that there needs to be a separate number that the police cannot monitor that goes directly with the heroes that we need, the EMS and FIREMEN. Police just stand back and guard the perimeter while the real heroes do the work.
From the Article: If it makes you feel better she just won a settlement in court for $37,500 last week against the piece of **** officer in a badge that did all of this to her.
It’s ok Rob you don’t need to sugar coat it for us, he’s a piece of SHIT you can say it! :)
There’s 8 other people that write here so just want to be polite when I say ****.. thanks for the comment Erik
Unbelievable! …well, I guess not really. The first 50 times i heard terrible stories of police doing ridiculous things I thought, “unbelievable!” But now I guess if I thought that I’d just be stupid.
I would make it a point to say you don’t want the police to come so don’t send them, but it’s not like everyone has the ability to think clearly or should have to worry about keeping the police away in the middle of a crisis like that. A friend of mine who’s too stupid to know how to do CPR called 911 after his friend passed out and stopped breathing.. A cop showed up before the ambulance and radioed in to tell the ambulance to “take your time, he’s dead”. As it turned out the ambulance arrived and were able to bring him back, but he is now a 25 year old vegetable in a nursing home, who knows if the policeman’s comments slowed the ambulance and cost him his life? and then on top of that he charged my friend with possession of marijuana after he just watched his friend basically die.
Hatepigs: I truly believe that in order to graduate high school you should at least have the knowledge to give CPR. That would be the bare minimum. A CPR class is around 4 hours long, a really extensive medical class is around 10 days: “USCG” standards. Trust me I did it.. Now most kids spend 4 years in high school. They can’t take ten days out of their life to learn how to save lives, CPR, bandage a wound, But I guess writing an essay is more important than day to day life skills that could save your wife or child ..
Sick stuff, hatepigs. So sorry.
If her blood sugar was dangerously LOW, shooting insulin would NOT be saving her life, it would be SUICIDE.
Type 1 diabetes is a lack of insulin naturally produced by the body. Type 2 diabetes is a resistance to insulin by the body. In both types, this results in high blood sugar levels. Diabetics shoot insulin to bring their sugar levels down. Too much insulin, or not eating a meal after shooting insulin, results in dangerously low sugar levels.
My dad was a diabetic. I say “was” because he had a pancreas transplant about 5 years ago. He very often did not eat as he should have after injecting, and became a raging lunatic fucktard when his sugar was low. In the two months before he was on the top of the transplant list and a suitable donor was found (in this case a woman who died in a traffic accident), we had an ambulance at the house about once a week to give him an IV to bring his sugar back up.
The only time the cops were involved in recent memory was when he stopped to get beer on the way home from work a few years before the transplant. He wasn’t in “raging lunatic” mode, but just in “fucktard” mode, and kept trying to pay for the beer after he got his change. The clerk called her boyfriend, who happened to be a city cop, and as soon as my dad saw the cop, he snapped out of it and realized what was happening. Ambulance station is right across the street from the distributor, bing bang boom, he was home before you knew anything was up.
Okay, obviously I’ve gone off on a tangent here, but ya know.
So really, the cop did save her life, just a completely wrong way. If the cops had been at my house on some nights when my dad’s sugar was low, they probably would’ve shot him.
Jake Stichler is absolutely correct. If the woman’s blood sugar was too low, an insulin injection would have killed her. Our brain cells get their energy from blood sugar; if there is not enough, the brain cells die. The cop saved her life!
Jane and Jake thanks for your comment’s and sharing your experiences with all of us, I appriciate you both of you in taking the time to comment here thanks Rob
more than likely the “insulin shot” report was just shoddy reporting. Most diabetics keep glucose shots around in case of low blood sugar. Most diabetics don’t keep syringes full of insulin they usually draw it as they need it. Glucose shots are usually full and ready to go because they are only used in emergencies and it could be life or death at that point. I helped take care of my little brother for many years that is a type 1 diabetic.
Having lived in Portland for many years, it always amazes me how the “most liberal city in America” has one of the most abuse-prone, neo-Nazi-like police forces in the nation. Even worse, the local prosecutor’s office rarely if ever will pursue criminal charges against rogue cops only encouraging further abuse.
I agree that it was most likely shoddy reporting I had a roommate in college who was a diabetic, and a glucose shot would make more sense than insulin.
This whole thing would be more credible if it were not so contradictory… If your blood sugar is low, and you inject insulin, you’ll kill yourself. Insulin LOWERS blood sugar. When it’s low, you need sugar. This would be a lot more believable if the cop was said to have said, “DROP THE ORANGE JUICE!” Yes, a diabetic with low blood sugar is most likely to go for a glass of orange juice while waiting for the medics.
Rich – 10 year paramedic.