By John Vibes
Minneapolis, MN – Last week, The Free Thought Project reported that cops were caught injecting unruly suspects with the powerful sedative ketamine, which police classify as a date rape drug.
Since the initial story was made public, more details have emerged in the case, revealing a twisted study that has been going on for many years, researching the effects of different sedatives on patients, many times without their knowledge or consent.
This research has been taking place at Hennepin Healthcare, under the supervision of doctors and full knowledge and encouragement from the local police.
The Star Tribune interviewed numerous victims who were involuntarily enrolled in the study, and not made aware of the fact that they were drugged until afterward.
Representatives of Hennepin Healthcare have defended the study, insisting that sedating agitated people can save lives.
According to the hospital, the studies have been approved and do not require consent from the patients because they are “performed in emergency situations.”
“We’ve all seen agitated and confused people just die, and we’re certain we can prevent that. We want to do it the best way possible,” said Dr. James Miner, chief of emergency medicine at Hennepin Healthcare.
Dr. Jon Cole, emergency physician and toxicologist at Hennepin Healthcare made similar statements, saying that, “To us, restraints without a sedative is really bad medical care.”
“Frankly, it’s a big concern of ours. Anytime that we interact with EMS about this, we emphasize to them, crystal clear: In no way is the study ever to increase the number of sedations. We want to observe normal, usual sedation practices,” Cole added.
However, there have been multiple cases where this type of sedation has actually put a patient’s life at extreme risk. Body camera footage from one of these encounters showed a woman begging for an asthma inhaler after being maced by police, but instead, she was injected with ketamine and fully sedated.
According to the initial reports about the incident, an unnamed paramedic told one of the officers on duty that “If she was having an asthma attack, giving ketamine actually helps patients and we’re doing a study for agitation anyway so I had to give her ketamine.”
The report also indicated that “It is troubling that the dictate of the ‘study’ mentioned by the paramedics appears to have played a significant role in the decision to administer ketamine.”
The ketamine did not actually help the woman as the paramedic suggested, but it actually stopped her heart momentarily, before she was resurrected by paramedics.
Also, according to one of the hospitals own studies, patients who are given ketamine are more likely to have breathing problems. The study showed that 57 percent of patients who were given ketamine needed to have a tube put in their throat to help them continue breathing.
Ketamine, the tranquilizer that is being used, has been popular in the club scene for years and has recently seen limited therapeutic research and use for a number of psychological ailments, including depression. Despite the fact that it is a “party drug,” Ketamine is an extremely strong dissociative, which can severely impair memory and make it difficult for people to move.
For this reason, the Minneapolis Police Department manual classifies Ketamine as a “date rape” drug, despite the fact that it is a well-known and popular party drug that large numbers of people do voluntarily, on their own free will. However, the fact that the department considers this a “date rape” drug, makes it even more alarming that they are involuntarily dosing suspects with this substance when they have not even been charged with a crime.
John Vibes is an author and researcher who organizes a number of large events including the Free Your Mind Conference. He also has a publishing company where he offers a censorship free platform for both fiction and non-fiction writers. You can contact him and stay connected to his work at his Facebook page. John just won a 3-year-long battle with cancer, and will be working to help others through his experience, if you wish to contribute to his treatments consider subscribing to his podcast to support . This article first appeared at The Free Thought Project.
Cops should not be injecting or drawing blood. Not qualified. A weekend course is not sufficient and the opportunity for abuse is rampant. The only thing allowed should be Narcan which saves lives and anyone can administer because seconds count. 46 states now allow lay people to get this from their pharmacies without prescription. Most are nasal spray some are injection.
That said this is not the first or probably only time RECENTLY that govt has allowed medical experiments on unsuspecting patients. Back in 2005 there was a little known 30 citywide study of bleeding accident victims being given an artificial experimental blood substitute. Three companies were vying for a contract with Bush administration to provide this to the battlefields during the war as it did not need refrigeration. One or two folks were saved but most died and none were told until after the fact if at all. Two companies went bankrupt and the third moved to third world countries so they can continue experiments with impunity.
This is another example of cops pretending to be med school graduates. Its BS. They should not be injecting anybody and they should also not hold up emergency crews until they determine if its a critical situation.
$ kinds of asthma and different kinds of meds to treat and some are opposite kinds and an EMT is a doctor to know which with no testing? Min is where the cabal in virtual control is being sued by 1200 families for their CPS contractors stealing children and the same entity of 1000 companies and 100 + nations and UN contracts has emerged rulers of the world now..and are now housing and caring for all the unaccompanied minors and the only thing the govt can do since Congress removed the right of budget to oversee what contractors do since 2002 is put all under Dept of defense as Sec Rumsfeld kept the oversight, SO THE KIDS ARE GOING TO THE MILTARY BASES?
Your members of congress can change this dictatorship of an international cabal by amending every bill to put the oversight of the govt back over our right and protect our monies they get with no right of knowing what they are doing States have relied on the feds for the oversight job as Mn lost their court case a few years agotrhing to get the ruler of the USA Lynn Blodgett out of the Medicaid programs contractor to protect it and the people The opioid pushing began in his micromanaged emergency rooms when treatment was a pain killer prescription and refused to allow Treatment….(His management company poisoned the water in Flint Michigan and even he smoking fun e mails in the OIG report lost week he has control of all of those and Michael Horowitz went to the defense dept and they got what the OIG director has legal rights to get. but this cabal is not under our laws anymore since 2002 . and a billion dollars a day being stolen from Medicare by companies he controlled as sub contractors of a contractor and much the same is all over from local to state and all areas NO FREE MARKET SYSEM F COMPETTIONS when here is no govt to referee to make sure all play fair. , is there. and one cabal wins all and their traffic cams and surveillances have led to some cities local officials even convicted of bribery charge to let them in and NO ONE CAN AUDIT OR KNOW WHAT THEY ARE COLLECTNG ARE THEY Tom Blodgett was sent to south America just before the mass invasion of kids began and who convinced all to come? and who owns the international military force causing trouble?? the ones that were to be at Benghazi and Kaddafi would not let them into Libya.. re European Times and it was Forbes who linked them to the Clinton Foundation… Dictators know who is another one ,don’t they? We allowed this to happen by reelecting those who would not put the rights back of govt to oversee its programs and he BIG LIE IS TO DISLIKE OR GOVT HELATH PRGRAMS LIKE MEDICARE ETC WHEN THE GOVT HAS NO OVERSIGHT ALLOWED AND MASSIVE THEFT FROM INSIDE THE CABAL GOES ON. and they get to take the fraud reports and screen out any that implicate them. MOS GOVT PHONE NUMBERS AT ALL LEVELS, ADDRESSES OR THOSE WHO SAY HEY ARE GOVT EMPLOESS ILLEGALLY IMPERSONATE THEY ARE AND NOT ALLOWED TO TELL YOU THEIR CORPORTATE NAME..ETC. congress put a gag order rule on themselves not to mention, contact or have a contractors testify and WE END UP WITH FAKE HEARINGS that end up with noting done but more of a cover-up of what really has been and is going on.. welcome the revived Roman Empire world wide now , almost where the govt stopped governing and corrupt govt contractors steal from the people and do harm and the most innocent gets crucified by them and the Pontius Pilates in the real govt so mired in the swamp of corrupt they cannot do their job and fight the illegal acts and go along to get along Linda Joy Adams