Re: cincinati cops murder innocent person

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 15:24:11 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 16:30:46 -0600, Peter H. Proctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
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>>        For the medical literature,   go to www.pubmed.gov and use
>>"ventricular hypertrophy" and "cocaine" as search terms.    BTW,   it
>>takes some rather serious coke use to cause it.    Not that being fat
>>and likely diabetic didn't contribute a bunch.   "Corn-bread
>>poisoning" we call it in the Doctor trade. 
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>I knew you'd be willing. :) Seems one problem is that the media picks up on
>stories like or similar to this and run with it while closely followed by
>the radicalized activists who are looking for sure fire cases upon which to
>set up their usual rap about police brutality. 
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        I think the media has figured out tht this particular dog
ain't goin' to hunt very far.  Looking at the video,   the cops seem
to have acted pretty approprately.  

       The individual attacked one LEO and the other then came to his
aid.   They  escalated  force only as he continued to struggle and
used pepper spray,  which does not cause physical injury, etc..

         This issue aside, as far as I can tell,  his death was not
proximately-related to the cops use of force.    If there was any
proximate cause,  it was his struggle and the adrenaline thereof
potentiating a cardiac arrythmia in an enlarged heart caused by
obesity and the odd bit of cocaine.  

          Cocaine itself can make the heart more susceptible to
arrythmias,  as can the hypoxia ( Pickwick's syndrome ) some really
obese people expereince.   

Dr P