Cop Avoids Catabolism... Where is Ronnie Coleman when we need him?

[240 is Back]

Ronnie Coleman was able to balance 8x meals a day with answering calls.  

This cop ignored a 911 call to order, eat, and stop and drop a deuce... and the medical emergency call - Woman died.   EMS cannot enter premises to help until the cop arrives and makes sure place is safe.  

FORT MYERS, Fla. - A Lee County deputy is off the job after an internal report reveals he didn't respond to a 911 call so he could eat lunch.

The investigation surrounds a 911 call from a home on Dryden Circle on March 13th. The caller wasn't speaking, so dispatch alerted Deputy Yvan Fernandez.

But instead of responding, reports show Fernandez went to eat lunch instead. The woman caller was having a medical emergency and later died.

"He made a decision at that moment of time that his lunch and what he had on his personal plate, pun intended I suppose, was more important than that 911 call," Sheriff Mike Scott said.

GPS tracking on his patrol car put Fernandez at Raider's Pizza and Wings on Palm Beach Boulevard six minutes before he was dispatched at 1:11 p.m. At 1:19, dispatch updated Fernandez about the call and he responded "copy." At 1:40 p.m. Fernandez asked another deputy who met him for lunch to take the call, who got to the home on Dryden Circle at 2:04 p.m. Fernandez finished his lunch and stopped at another location to use the restroom, getting to the home at 2:21 p.m.

"Could we have saved this lady? I'll never be able to answer that question. Would getting there quicker have hurt anything? Of course not," Scott said.

When interviewed about what happened, Fernandez said he called the 911 caller several times, but she didn't answer. He then decided to return to his lunch, telling investigators he "believed this type of response and response time was satisfactory."

[Royalty]

Ronnie Coleman was able to balance 8x meals a day with answering calls.  

This cop ignored a 911 call to order, eat, and stop and drop a deuce... and the medical emergency call - Woman died.   EMS cannot enter premises to help until the cop arrives and makes sure place is safe.  

FORT MYERS, Fla. - A Lee County deputy is off the job after an internal report reveals he didn't respond to a 911 call so he could eat lunch.

The investigation surrounds a 911 call from a home on Dryden Circle on March 13th. The caller wasn't speaking, so dispatch alerted Deputy Yvan Fernandez.

But instead of responding, reports show Fernandez went to eat lunch instead. The woman caller was having a medical emergency and later died.

"Could we have saved this lady? I'll never be able to answer that question. Would getting there quicker have hurt anything? Of course not," Scott said.

When interviewed about what happened, Fernandez said he called the 911 caller several times, but she didn't answer. He then decided to return to his lunch, telling investigators he "believed this type of response and response time was satisfactory."

Sounds like the cop thought that it was a false alarm

[240 is Back]

Sounds like the cop thought that it was a false alarm

I would think an inability to answer the phone might go hand-in-hand with a medical emergency.

Person having heart attack (in this case a registered nurse calls 911) can't answer phone.   Cop should know that.  We all know he was taking a crap, passing time on facebook giving "likes" to hot bitches on his phone, while this woman was expiring alone a full 45 minutes after calling 911. 

[Royalty]

I would think an inability to answer the phone might go hand-in-hand with a medical emergency.

Person having heart attack (in this case a registered nurse calls 911) can't answer phone.   Cop should know that.  We all know he was taking a crap, passing time on facebook giving "likes" to hot bitches on his phone, while this woman was expiring alone a full 45 minutes after calling 911. 

Yeah.... the cop was very wrong in his assumption

[Voice of Doom]

So I guess incidents like this end the "you talk shit about police but we'll see who you call when you're in an emergency" argument.

Personally, I'm ok with opting out of police protection.

[El Diablo Blanco]

it's all about priorities.  To protect and be served

[Agnostic007]

911 hangups occur here about 20 times a day though out the city. People trying to call Mexico dial a pre-fix, screw it up and hang up. Out of 1000 911 hangup's with nothing heard, probably only 1 turn out to be someone actually calling for help. We know this, we know it's more than likely one of the 999 calls with kids playing with the phone or a mis dial, but we STILL have an obligation to check it out in a reasonable amount of time. Reasonable being before lunch, before a bathroom break... The cop COULD have said he was unavailable due to being on break and let another cop take the call but he pretended he was actively responding to the call. Firing him is the least that should happen. 

[Dave D]

Ronnie Coleman was able to balance 8x meals a day with answering calls.  

This cop ignored a 911 call to order, eat, and stop and drop a deuce... and the medical emergency call - Woman died.   EMS cannot enter premises to help until the cop arrives and makes sure place is safe.  

FORT MYERS, Fla. - A Lee County deputy is off the job after an internal report reveals he didn't respond to a 911 call so he could eat lunch.

The investigation surrounds a 911 call from a home on Dryden Circle on March 13th. The caller wasn't speaking, so dispatch alerted Deputy Yvan Fernandez.

But instead of responding, reports show Fernandez went to eat lunch instead. The woman caller was having a medical emergency and later died.

"He made a decision at that moment of time that his lunch and what he had on his personal plate, pun intended I suppose, was more important than that 911 call," Sheriff Mike Scott said.

GPS tracking on his patrol car put Fernandez at Raider's Pizza and Wings on Palm Beach Boulevard six minutes before he was dispatched at 1:11 p.m. At 1:19, dispatch updated Fernandez about the call and he responded "copy." At 1:40 p.m. Fernandez asked another deputy who met him for lunch to take the call, who got to the home on Dryden Circle at 2:04 p.m. Fernandez finished his lunch and stopped at another location to use the restroom, getting to the home at 2:21 p.m.

"Could we have saved this lady? I'll never be able to answer that question. Would getting there quicker have hurt anything? Of course not," Scott said.

When interviewed about what happened, Fernandez said he called the 911 caller several times, but she didn't answer. He then decided to return to his lunch, telling investigators he "believed this type of response and response time was satisfactory."

I think the Sheriff's quote is the most damaging.  Very rarely do law enforcement officials speak against one another publicly.