Latest / Creatures of the Wind / 6:10 p.m. at Maria Hernandez Park

Transcript

6:10 p.m. at Maria Hernandez Park · Creatures of the Wind

• 0:27
  SPEAKER_02: That was one of the most intense things I've ever seen in my life.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_01: Oh no, they got yellowed paint while.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they've got it all.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_03: Right as we were closing up the tea stand, there was a middle-aged man, maybe 30, 40 meters away from the tea stand who was lying on the ground.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_02: And these police officers were crouched over him.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, there were a few police officers attempting to give him CPR.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_02: There was like different people doing it each time, and they were just pressing really quickly onto his chest.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_02: It was just like popping up and up and up and up and up and up and nothing's happening.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_03: And like people stopped and were were kind of watching and everyone was moving around and other people were still.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_03: Then the fire department arrived and I think resumed CPR.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_02: It's like it felt like, yeah, it was so long without any EMS.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_03: And then put him on a stretcher and brought him out of the park, but it didn't seem like he was responding.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_02: Like an emptiness in people watching someone be at the edge of their life.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I don't know if he died, I don't know if he's still breathing.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_01: Like it felt like nobody knew what to do.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_03: You know, you want you want to believe that like the public authorities are well trained and well equipped to handle these types of things, and that trust is not there.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_01: Came in barked orders, just no sense of like compassion for the fact that we just saw someone like go through that.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_01: Just like straight on to the next task.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, of course it's difficult, but with this job, unfortunately, you've seen stuff like this quite frequently, so unfortunately it becomes normal.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's like while we're watching someone maybe lose their humanity, like there's no humanity in the first place.