http://syn2.thecanadianpress.com:8080/mrss/feed/fcf7391a2f354311807f0501c16bde6a MSN - AP World Copyright © 2010-2018 The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Tue, 13 May 2025 07:09:48 +0000 http://syn2.thecanadianpress.com:8080/mrss/feed/fcf7391a2f354311807f0501c16bde6a/f7d5e8ac815642f981c9e4eb4ef5692b f7d5e8ac815642f981c9e4eb4ef5692b Fri, 03 Feb 2023 20:53:36 +0000 SHOTLIST:RESTRICTION SUMMARY: MUST CREDIT TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH++SHOTS SEPARATED BY WHITE FLASH++++VIDEO AND AUDIO AS INCOMING++TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH - MUST CREDIT TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTHNashville, Tennessee - 3 February 2023HEADLINE: Licenses suspended for fired EMTs in Tyre Nichols death1. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Gibbs, Attorney, Tennessee Department of Health:"What you just witnessed was 19 minutes, approximately 19 minutes of video where emergency care and aid was not rendered to patient TN (referring to Tyre Nichols). Multiple points in the video there are times when respondents are standing, not offering care, not offering treatment."2. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Gibbs, Attorney, Tennessee Department of Health:"Both of these respondents failed to exercise the care, skills and abilities needed to render appropriate emergency medical aid and to provide services in accordance with authorized procedures and their respective levels of training. Neither respondent administered care to patient TN upon knowledge of application of principles derived from accepted practice and medical approval."++WHITE FLASH++3. Various of motions and voting by the Emergency Management Services Board. ANNOTATION: A Tennessee board has suspended the emergency management technician licenses of two people for failing to render critical care to Tyre Nichols.ANNOTATION: Nichols was beaten after police stopped him for what they said was a traffic violation. He died three days later.STORYLINE:A Tennessee board on Friday suspended the emergency management technician licenses of two former Memphis Fire Department employees for failing to render critical care to Tyre Nichols after he took a beating from police that ultimately killed him.The suspensions of Robert Long and JaMichael Sandridge build on efforts by authorities to hold officers and other first responders accountable for the violence against Nichols, who was Black. Five Black officers have been fired and charged with second-degree murder and other charges, and two more officers have been suspended. The Justice Department has opened a civil rights probe into the attack that was captured on video .Three fire department employees were fired after Nichols died. Former fire department Lt. Michelle Whitaker was the third employee let go, but her license was not considered for suspension Friday. The department has said she remained in the engine with the driver during the response to Nichols' beating Jan. 7. He died Jan. 10.Emergency Management Services Board member Jeff Beaman said during Friday's emergency meeting that there may have been other licensed personnel on scene — including a supervisor — who could have prevented the situation that led to the death of Nichols. Beaman said he hopes the board addresses those in the future.Matt Gibbs, an attorney for the state Department of Health, said the two suspensions were "not final disposition of this entire matter."==========================================================Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: info@aparchive.com(ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. Tennessee suspends 2 EMT licenses in Nichols' death