A video reveals nurses and corrections officers at a New York jail complaining about medical gear and making jokes whereas giving CPR to an inmate who died in a cell.
The footage is from the physique digicam worn by Oneida County Correctional Facility officers current on the scene in February 2024. The inmate, Antwan Cater, died from a synthetic-marijuana-induced seizure at age 25, in line with The New York Times.
Bodycam video revealed that 12 minutes lapsed between an officer first seeing Cater on the bottom and when a nurse checked his pulse.
Video additionally confirmed that within the 40-plus minutes that medical employees administered CPR, they stated the medical gadgets they had been utilizing “suck” and requested if something “works around here.”
One employees member joked concerning the CPR being “good training,” and one other stated they had been “too fat” and “burned a thousand calories” in the course of the resuscitation try.
Cater’s father, Terry Watson, has filed a federal lawsuit over the incident that alleges employees’s “negligence and medical malpractice” brought on his son’s dying. Ten nurses and corrections officers, plus a medical firm and the district and county the place the incident came about, are named as defendants.
“Each minute they did nothing to help Antwan, the probability of his survival dropped significantly,” Watson’s attorneys wrote within the submitting, per the Times. “By first ignoring Antwan’s seizure and then standing around idly for minutes, the correction officers and medical staff sealed Antwan’s fate.”