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Everyone would know better. This is just depraved indifference. They honestly deserve more charges. How absolutely awful to be treated like a piece of garbage while you are experiencing a medical emergency and then have those tasked to help you be the ones to kill you. Truly abhorrent.
It is a clearly stated rule in EMS that no patient is to be restrained in thr prone position and it has been so for a decade. Presumably this is because enough folks died just like this.
They used to "sandwich" combative patients between 2 backboard until that also was a no-no. >

It seems like common sense you'd never strap people down like that.  Not an EMT, I just think instinctually that's not what a reasonable person would do. >

The only thing I (the furthest person from being a medical professional) could think make me want to lay someone prone is to ensure they don't choke themselves on potential vomit.
But there are certainly better ways to mitigate that than strapping someone face down in an ambulance. >

You want to position somebody on their side for that. And as a medic if that is something you are concerned about during transport, we have interventions we could do to prevent that. Like suctioning or if we are really really concerned we would intubate.  None of their decisions had anything to do with patient safety. >

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.” >

Why TF would they strap him down in the prone position? >

To kill him? They knew better.  That is why they were charged with murder.