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Two paramedics in Illinois are facing murder charges after a patient died of positional asphyxiation shortly after he was taken to a hospital, court documents say

Peggy Finley, 44, and Peter Cadigan, 50, responded to a home in Springfield on December 18 after police requested medical assistance for a 911 caller who “was suffering hallucinations due to alcohol withdrawal,” according to a news release from the Springfield Police Department. Body camera footage released by police shows Finley entering the home’s rear bedroom as one of the officers briefs her on the patient, Earl L. Moore, Jr.

According to the coroner’s autopsy report, Moore died of “compressional and positional asphyxia due to prone facedown restraint on a paramedic transportation cot/stretcher by tightened straps across back and lower body in the setting of lethargy and underlying chronic alcoholism.” Finley and Cadigan were arrested on January 9 and charged with first-degree murder, court documents show. They’re being held at the Sangamon County Detention Facility on $1 million bond each.

 

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Seems like people are targeting our first responders... Makes you wonder why?

Our thought are with the family and friends and community

When are we going yo see prominent arrests for vaccine deaths.

karen

Damn

Prosecutor is overcharging.

Good.

I think it was her stunning bedside manner that will do her in. Just the manner she talks to the patient shows you how little care she had. It makes it a lot easier to believe that she would be lax in securing the patient.

so laying someone face down and strapping them in is a bad idea? go figure

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This won't stick. Hard time calling this one 'murder'.

Again, when people get charged for doing their jobs, no one will do those jobs anymore.

Two vile humans 😬

First degree murder will never stick, they're going to get off... I have a feeling they knew that, that's why they charge them with it

“Two of the officers can be seen helping Moore outside and onto the gurney.” Where are they?

That does not sound like first degree murder... are they doing this so they get acquitted?

Oh My God!.

Some quak quak ducks!!😔

Charged for 1st degree murder? That is a bit of a stretch. They will be able to be acquitted on 1st.

If you work around the public in a job and can't deal with people you do not need to be doing that job, you need to find a new career.

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Bet they still charged him $20K for the ambulance

She has a little too much attitude for someone who just asphyxiated someone 😒

Problem with such a job, when you having a bad day people die. But should be manslaughter just like George Floyd should have been.

Doesn't there have to be premeditation to prove first degree murder? This seems more like 2nd or 3rd degree murder, or maybe even manslaughter.

Wow. They thought because we have to call 911 to get them to come, they have the same implied immunity as the cops.

They should get the death penalty. Knowing how to save someone but killing them….death for them:

They don’t look like they give a damn

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