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Cop Accused Of Refusing CPR To Dying Girl Suspended

09/01/2010 12:48 pm 1 comment

Briana Ojeda

Source: Hasani Gittens / NBCNewYork.com / MSNBC.com

The NYPD has finally confirmed that it was indeed one of their own who stood by as a little girl died of an asthma attack in Brooklyn last Friday.

The cop has been identified as Alfonoso Mendez, 30, who has five years on the job, officials said. He has been suspended and faces departmental charges, police said.

“I stopped and I screamed for him,’Help me please, can you help me? Can you assist me give my daughter mouth to mouth?’” Carmen Ojeda told NBCNewYork on Monday. “He told me he didn’t know CPR. The officer’s just standing there — he’s telling me I can’t leave because I have to wait for the ambulance.”

Police officials have said that all NYPD officers get CPR training so it is unclear why Mendez would have said he didn’t know how to perform the procedure.

To read this article in its entirety visit MSNBC.com.

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RISKIRAT

WHEN YOU GET AN ONLINE PETITON GOING I'LL SIGN IT AND PASS IT AROUND TO BE RE-SIGNED BY ALOT OF CARING FRIENDS. THIS COP SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH “MURDER”. I AM SO SORRY FOR YOUR LOST!

~RISKI RAT…

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