On Friday night, a medic associated with the protests in Atlanta caught what was determined later to be a ricochet to the leg.
?Police in riot gear storm a rally on Friday, removing hundreds of protesters by #Atlanta. A young girl was injured!#BLACK_LIVES_MATTER #BLMMOVEMENT pic.twitter.com/CIQ79nyVqn
— ?System Error #News #GeorgeFloyd?Limit!!!! ? (@BordSystemNewsX) June 20, 2020
You can tell this is a highly trained people by the assessment and treatment.
Shooting in #Atlanta at the #RayshardBrooks vigil caught live, young female shot in leg. Ambulance on the way. pic.twitter.com/7OiA7WnRRz
— Ophelia (@BarnBurnerBaby) June 20, 2020
I might be wrong, but I don’t really see a lot of “bright red and pumping” which goes with needing a tourniquet.
Hmmm. No wonder the Chazzers wanted fo-reels medics last night.
Genuii.
From my friend and hunting buddy the EMT instructor (viewing another video of this event), “So….do you wanna cause vascular damage? Cause this is how you do it. You apply a make shift tourniquet to a flesh wound with no active bleeding.”
But, it serves no useful purpose to educate them.
When all you have is a fake tourniquet, every problem looks like arterial bleeding.
I saw a similar video a couple of weeks ago. Another rioter received an almost identical thigh booboo (but this one was a male, so it’s not the same video), and the (Antifa?) “first responders” tied it off with a makeshift tourniquet. The “victim” kept whining, “I don’t wanna lose my leg.” My advice for him would be: A) stay away from riots, and B) don’t let idiots put a tourniquet on a wound that you could treat yourself with direct pressure.
My guess would be that Antifa has been holding first aid classes and they improperly stress tourniquets. Since tourniquets seem to be de rigueur for EDC in some circles theses days, to me that looks like evidence that they read gun magazines and blogs. So act accordingly.
It was better than that. It was a hit by a rubber bullet… No hole.
The entire thing is theater.
Yes, I have my blowout kits. Yes they are with me. But one thing that is in that kit taking up room is an Israeli combat bandage.
Get some for your kits and learn how to use it.
(You above is plural, not directed at any particular person)
Myself, I carry 2-3 tourniquets everyday.
Of course, (a) I am suspicious of nearly everyone/everything, (b) I am an old street medic, and currently a mid level, and (c) am of the Church of Murphy. Besides, it is (I hope) more likely I’ll need a TK, rather than my EDC sidearm.
Of course, I know other interventions besides a TK, for lesser boo-boos. As, likely, does every other reader of this blog.