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Police Chief Stopped Man From Saving Gay Friend

I am not quiet sure if this story is true, I find it to be unbelievable. Could it that the relatives are so upset over the death of this guy that they are seeing things they are not to? I am not sure.

CHARLESTON, West Virginia (AP) -- A small-town police chief was accused in a federal lawsuit Thursday of stopping a would-be rescuer from performing CPR on a gay heart attack victim because he assumed the ailing man had HIV and posed a health risk.

Claude Green, 43, died June 21 after being stricken yards from City Hall in Welch, a community of about 2,400.

The American Civil Liberties Union sued on behalf of his mother.

Police Chief Bobby Bowman called the allegations "a boldface lie." He said that he called an ambulance and that Green was taken to the hospital in "no more than nine minutes."

"No one refused him CPR as his sister and mom are saying. They can do what they want, but if they're saying I refused him CPR, that is no way true," Bowman said.

The lawsuit accuses Bowman of pulling off Green's friend Billy Snead as Snead was performing chest compressions on the man. Snead was a passenger in Green's pickup truck when Green collapsed; Snead had managed to pull over the vehicle...

https://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/02/cpr.lawsuit.ap/index.html

Friend Gay Saving Man Stopped Chief Police

This part of the story seems very suspicious. The officer, I believe, is not required to perform CPR on the victim, and can wait for local medical authorities to do so. However, I also don't think it is against the law for bypassers/onlookers to perform CPR if they want to, although there may be some liability there. Maybe I am wrong and there is a law that says you cannot perform CPR on someone, which may explain why the officer pulled the man's friend away. It will be interesting to see how this case develops.