Video of Man Thrown Out of Ambulance and Beaten

I am sure many of you have, at least one time in your career, thought about throwing a patient out of your ambulance. But, of course, you didn’t (even though there is the infamous story of a D.C. paramedic throwing his partner out of the ambulance and leaving him on a Southeast street corner).

Video has now surfaced of exactly that happening at a Chicago hospital two years ago. The paramedic, who was fired and is now dead, then went on to beat Robert Cole. It was captured by hospital security cameras.

WLS-TV has the story as Cole sues four medics, police officers, the hospital and a security company. Robert Cole claims that all of these people stood by and allowed the beating to occur.

The other paramedics had been suspended and Chicago Fire Commissioner Raymond Orozco isn’t shy about the admitting this was a big problem: “I find the conduct that occurred in this matter to be unconscionable. The mission of our paramedics is to provide medical care and compassion for those we serve.”