Post by Logan on Jun 25, 2016 4:33:26 GMT -6
Bill to require cops to be retrained in CPR every two years stalls in Senate for fifth straight year
"Briana's Law," a bill requiring cops to be retrained in lifesaving CPR every two years, has been dead on arrival in the state Senate for five years running, the Daily News has learned.
Assemblyman Felix Ortiz who sponsored the bill in memory of 11-year-old Briana Ojeda who died of an asthma attack in 2010 after an NYPD cop claimed he didn't know CPR, said he was outraged this week after reading a story in the Daily News of a video showing cops, waiting for an ambulance and doing nothing for 10 minutes while a handcuffed suspect lay dying of an asthma attack in a Bronx subway station.
"Very often the police get to the scene first of a person in cardiac arrest and they should not be afraid, or lack the training, to do what is necessary to try and save a life," Ortiz (D-Brooklyn) said Friday.
The bill, which would require a refresher course for all cops in New York State, was passed by the Assembly last March for the fifth straight year, but once again, it was not put up for a vote in the Senate.
Read more: www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/bill-require-cops-trained-cpr-years-stalls-article-1.2687319
"Briana's Law," a bill requiring cops to be retrained in lifesaving CPR every two years, has been dead on arrival in the state Senate for five years running, the Daily News has learned.
Assemblyman Felix Ortiz who sponsored the bill in memory of 11-year-old Briana Ojeda who died of an asthma attack in 2010 after an NYPD cop claimed he didn't know CPR, said he was outraged this week after reading a story in the Daily News of a video showing cops, waiting for an ambulance and doing nothing for 10 minutes while a handcuffed suspect lay dying of an asthma attack in a Bronx subway station.
"Very often the police get to the scene first of a person in cardiac arrest and they should not be afraid, or lack the training, to do what is necessary to try and save a life," Ortiz (D-Brooklyn) said Friday.
The bill, which would require a refresher course for all cops in New York State, was passed by the Assembly last March for the fifth straight year, but once again, it was not put up for a vote in the Senate.
Read more: www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/bill-require-cops-trained-cpr-years-stalls-article-1.2687319