Girl Dies of Asthma Attack After Cop Blocks Way to Hospital

Posted on 31. Aug, 2010 by JohnCByrdIII in Politics

Here we go again.

Over the weekend, Briana Ojeda an 11 year-old student from Brooklyn, NY, suffered a severe asthma attack.  She and her parents were playing in a park when the attack struck.

Without time to wait for an ambulance, her father Michael threw her in the car and started heading down a one-way street towards a hospital just around the corner.

An officer stopped her. Briana didn’t make it.

Michael tells the New York Post that Carmen (Briana’s mom) desperately sought help:

She then flagged down a marked car and the uniformed man got out and screamed, “What the f – - k are you doing going down the wrong way?” Michael said.

“My wife screamed at him, ‘Help! My daughter needs CPR.’ ”

The man “smirked” and responded, “I don’t do CPR,” Michael said.

Carmen says that the officer sucessfully “boxed her in” but a Good Samaritan administered CPR.  Unfortunately, by the time she made it to the hospital a block down, she had passed away.

The NYPD expectedly denies any involvement in the incident stating that the officer was more than likely a security guard or auxiliary officer, but Scott Voloshin, the Good Samaritan who gave CPR told ABC 7 “He was NYPD for sure, but I don’t know what (specifically).”

Source: Gawker

Tags: Asthma, Briana Ojeda, Brooklyn, New York, Police, Police Brutality, Scott Voloshin