15-12-2015, 10:47 PM
Drew Phipps Wrote:Many, perhaps most, of our fine police officers, firemen, paramedics, and other first responders here in the US would risk their lives to save another. Thank God!
Whoa, there! First off, I am a part time paramedic, and here in Canada, as well as the USA, most, if not all, ambulance services have a strict policy that does not allow us to enter a violent scene until it has been secured by the "Code 5's" (police). It is wisely considered we have enough patients to deal with already, without making ourselves patients, and robbing the real patients of our life saving skills.
Our RCMP also has many brave members willing to risk their lives for others, but they also are a highly disciplined organization, and solo "Rambo" acts are frowned upon, as unproductive.
Do you not agree that Baker would have known there was ample backup within shouting distance of the TSBD? And that it would not have taken very long to put together an organized plan that involved preventing anyone from escaping the TSBD, while they roamed the upper floors looking for God knows what?
Mr. HILL. The right rear portion of his head was missing. It was lying in the rear seat of the car. His brain was exposed. There was blood and bits of brain all over the entire rear portion of the car. Mrs. Kennedy was completely covered with blood. There was so much blood you could not tell if there had been any other wound or not, except for the one large gaping wound in the right rear portion of the head.
Warren Commission testimony of Secret Service Agent Clinton J. Hill, 1964
Warren Commission testimony of Secret Service Agent Clinton J. Hill, 1964