Dallas Paramedic Seen Kicking Homeless Man Back on the Job

This sickens me. 

From NBCDFW5:

"[Brad] Cox, who has a history of disciplinary problems, testified last week at the hearing he believes his use of force was justified because he feared for his life and acted to keep others safe. He said news media reports misconstrued what happened. Cox told the judge during the hearing that he “could not and would not have done anything differently.”

“I don’t ever leave the house wanting to fight anybody ever,” Cox said at the hearing. “I was put in a situation that I had no choice.”

Well, I call bullshit.  He definitely had a choice.  There's nothing in your paramedic training about using your MMA training on anybody, at all. 

Paramedics have a duty to ensure "scene safety" for themselves and their partners before they engage anyone.  So if Brad Cox thought he was in a life-threatening situation, or anyone needed protecting, he was supposed to get back in his ambulance and drive away, and let the big, scary police officers handle it with their guns. You run away, park somewhere safe, and let the police call you back when the area is secure. That's legit how paramedics are taught to handle unsafe people and situations, by protocol, in every part of America.  It's called "staging," look that shit up.  Failure to ensure "scene safety for my partner and me" and run away in your ambulance if it's not met, will automatically fail you in every single paramedic test scenario.  Or, even easier than researching staging and scene safety, just look at the photograph of him kicking the seated, handcuffed guy, which is self-explanatory.  I imagine the judge was pressured by the firefighters' union, because Cox had 19 years in on the job.

Brad Cox is a bully and a punk.   I hate knowing that he works as a firefighter, much less a paramedic.  This is not the person you want responding to your family's emergency. 

I had patients grab at my breasts and crotch while I was on calls, and I didn't assault them.  I swatted their hands away and kept working, just like my other female coworkers routinely did.  I had been advised that any actions beyond that would be career-ending, especially reporting them.  So Brad Cox doesn't have a leg to stand on or an ass to sit on IMHO.  Garbage man.