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20, we're right on that.
PD on scene with a man assault.
That's in the quarter, so-- you know,
the funny thing is that if we take everybody
that's been drinking in the quarter,
first quarter would be empty.
Only in New Orleans.
Right.
See the lights of the NOPD.
Somebody going to jail.
What's wrong with the dude?
TITUS: All right. What's up, my man?
DAN: He had a big cut on his head.
He needed to go to the hospital, and that's all I cared about.
I didn't care about the story, or how
he ended up sitting on the sidewalk in handcuffs
with a gash to his head.
I'll have you put your cuffs in the front
so you can be more comfortable.
Your whole face is bleeding, brother.
Why?
I don't know, I imagine because your face
hit the sidewalk.
Y'all?
We didn't touch you.
This dude is so drunk and belligerent that he
actually thinks we're the cops.
Yeah, hey, look.
I'm going to take your hat off and clean it up, all right?
Yes, sir. TITUS: Did you fall?
No, sir.
No, no, I'm the paramedic you talked
to you from the beginning.
You ain't never got into it with me.
We're cool.
NOP has questioned the patient and wants to see his ID,
so since his hand is injured, I was just trying to help him get
his wallet out of his pocket.
You got anything in there that's going to hurt me?
That's just money and a lighter.
DAN: Any time you have somebody that's intoxicated,
it's frustrating.
And that's your litmus test, I guess--
I mean, your ability to stay cool and kind
of handle those calls professionally
is what's important to me.
You don't want to say you're going to punch me.
Then we're on the same page.
Let's sign that.
DAN: At first, he was not interested in cooperating
with the Police Department, and finally, they did
get him to sign the summons.
Oh my god.
Dude, right now, oh, [bleep]
All right.
Well, we'll get you some medicine for it
at the hospital.
Oh, my neck.
What just happened?
No, I'm not.
Help, my neck.
Dan, what are you doing to that man back there?
Thank you, sir.
I appreciate it.
What's that?
I appreciate it.
Hey, you and me, we all right.
I couldn't agree more.
I'm actually a nurse, as well as a paramedic.
The great thing about being a paramedic, when we get someone
that's drunk and combative, we only have to deal with them
for a short amount of time.
When I work as a nurse, I get that patient for a while.
TITUS: 3020 to the hospital.
Listen.
Don't get upset.
This guy will definitely get a couple of stitches in his head.
But probably, what he really needs
is just to go home, sleep it off, and call it a night.
Oh, [bleep] god, dude.
My back hurts so bad.
My neck!
DAN: Yeah, it's crazy how the dude went from being
a jerk in the beginning to being less than sane in the middle,
and then like sobbing, and crying, you know, like a kid
at the end of it.
It almost seemed like he went through, what, the full stages
of, of grieving.
Is it five or four stages?
I don't know how-- you know like
you might be making that up. - No, I'm not.
Denial. - Right.
Bargaining.
Then there's some anger.
TITUS: Yeah, they got anger, then acceptance.
Anyway, I don't think it's anything like that.
I think he just had a laceration on his head.
He's going mental.
OFFICER (OVER PHONE): City of New Orleans.
911.
OK, is he moving?
WOMAN (OVER RADIO): Well, we've got a man down
State Street on the corner in the street
in the 1000 of Kaleo.
The caller was too far away to tell if the patient
was breathing or anything.
So far, the information.
Call three.
6220.
I'm going to roll in here.
WOMAN (OVER RADIO): Copy.
We're going to a man down.
It's hard to take a nap in the middle of the street, though.
Yeah.
And we about to wake him up.
He is on Magazine side of the corner in the street.
This Magazine?
Yup.
32.
Right there on the sidewalk.
TITUS: That dude look like he's sleeping.
Is that somebody's down?
Yeah, he's laying on the ground up here.
Yo.
Yo, man, you sleeping in the middle of the street.
First thing I see is a person that's halfway under a blanket.
Right now, I want to nudge this patient just to see if he
reacts, and to see if he's OK.
Hold up, Joe.
Yo, sit up.
Yo, you all right?
What's your name?
Stand up.
Use your legs.
That's it.
Come on, come up here.
Why are you on the street, man?
What, are you drinking?
Sit down for me.
Yeah, you got a little liquor in you.
DAN: You got to have a seat, man.
Look, brother.
You was, you was.
Even though this cat doesn't want
to have anything to do with us, we could
tell he's really intoxicated.
So at this point, we've got to do our job
and make sure that he's OK.
You were sleeping in the middle of the street.
Stay back.
Don't you stand up at me like that.
TITUS: Sit down. Sit down, man.
DAN: Sit down.
Kick your feet up.
TITUS: Yeah, look.
You were sleeping on the street, bro,
So we had to take you off the street.
All right?
DAN: Put your feet up.
TITUS: Do you know where you're at right now?
DAN: Because you were passed out in the middle of the street.
KEELEY: We were responding to a man down,
and it's obvious that he's intoxicated.
He's kind of ornery.
He's not being cooperative, and does
not want to go to the hospital. - Come on.
It's cold out here.
Quick, and we can get you in the stretcher.
Dude, we're just here for you.
Like, somebody thought that you really need help,
that you could possibly be dead, and they activated us.
And we're here for you.
KEELEY: Oh, we would love to leave you
alone if you hadn't been so--
all right.
Look.
We're not going to sit out here all night with you.
All we want to do is get you in the back of the unit
where it's warm.
It's warm.
The ambulance right there.
Because you're laying in the street passed out.
Well, that's not normal.
That's not--
I'm a paramedic in the city of New Orleans.
That's who I am.
Because he's intoxicated, he's not
able to make rational decisions in the eyes of the law
and in the eyes of the medical profession.
So because of that, we have to take him to the hospital.
And this guy is, he's not cooperating.
OK.
Well, we got to get you checked out first.
And then if you--
OK, look, look, look, look, look, look.
What's going to happen is you're going to lay down,
or we're going to make you lay down.
We can do it the easy way or the hard way.
All right.
Get the restraints.
When a patient starts to become too aggressive with us,
violent, and harmful to us, or himself,
we can restrain the patient if we need to.
Unfortunately, this patient is at that point.
All right, just kick your feet up there.
Put your feet up, or we'll tie you down.
That simple.
You're going to be good, man?
Look, we're going to slide you up.
Easy way.
It's easy.
This is the easy way.
Yeah, this is the easy way.
I think he's kind of realized that he's
not going to win this battle, and he starts to chill out.
Well, look.
We going to get you out this cold.
It's cold.
You're not cold?
I'm cold.
This patient right now is in a bad place in this life.
My main concern is for his health.
So at this point, we've got to get him to the hospital
as safely and quickly as possible.
Let's get you in this truck.
I've been called worse, man.
JANETTE: We're headed to a female that's stumbling
on the street, possibly fell and hit her head,
but they're saying that now she's just,
like, sitting on the curb.
And a good Samaritan thought to call it in.
LINDSAY: Do you think we're going to be, like, busy Mardi
Gras, even though they're not having, like, all
the parades and stuff?
JANETTE: 100%.
LINDSAY: Like, this is New Orleans.
Like, it's Mardi Gras.
You can cancel the balls, you can cancel the parades, but you
cannot cancel Mardi Gras.
3250.
We're in the area.
Hi.
OK.
Hey, baby.
Hi, sweetheart.
Oh.
Oh, I know this girl.
She likes to fight.
Oh, yeah.
JANETTE: She swung at you.
LINDSAY: I've been swung on by her at least,
like, five times in my career.
JANETTE: I know exactly who this patient is,
and she is a feisty one.
So if I approach her in an aggressive way,
this whole situation is going to go downhill.
So it's just going to take a little finesse, you know.
Hey, sweetheart.
Hey, look.
You were stumbling around.
OK?
So we're going to take you on over to the hospital,
all right?
You can't see?
Intoxication can mask signs and symptoms
of brain injuries and neurological deficits
from head injuries.
So we need to get her in the truck to be evaluated.
All right, baby.
You ready?
There we go.
Perfect.
We got a couple of seat belts for you, OK?
No, we got to seat belt in.
OK?
We got to stay seat belted, OK?
No, we got to stay seat belted in.
LINDSAY: Stay in.
JANETTE: Stay seat belted in.
LINDSAY: He's right there.
JANETTE: Should be.
LINDSAY: Yeah.
You're going to be all right, ma'am.
You're welcome now.
JANETTE: You got to stop undoing them seat belts.
LINDSAY: No, you're not doing anything wrong,
but you've got to stay with the seat belt strap.
Uh-uh.
Seat belts stay on.
Seatbelts stay on.
Don't take them off again.
You have the wrong bitch.
JANETTE: We just want to help you.
No, we're not talking about that.
Uh-uh, no.
Stop.
Ma'am, why do you have to go and do that?
LINDSAY: Just go ahead and yeah.
JANETTE: Lindsay and I are responding
to an intoxicated female with a possible head injury.
But because our patient is trying to unbuckle her belt,
we have to restrain her to the stretcher
to make sure that she doesn't try to jump out
of the back of the ambulance. All right.
LINDSAY: That's better.
Almost.
JANETTE: There we go. That's better.
LINDSAY: All right.
Now let's get your blood sugar.
All of her vital signs are good.
I don't see any signs of head trauma.
So most likely, her only complaint is going
to be intoxication tonight.
In New Orleans, people who are showing clinical signs
of intoxication we have to transport those people
to the hospital, just to get a little checkup,
sober up a little bit, and then be on their way.
We're not going to be kicking anybody.
That's not nice.
Yeah, I'm just trying to bring you
somewhere so you can get some nice rest, sober up,
get some food.
I noticed that my girl is wearing a Mardi Gras t-shirt.
And it's just another reminder that Mardi Gras really is just,
like, so different this year.
What are you cursing at me for?
Are you sad that Mardi Gras isn't having
all the parades this year?
I think we're all sad.
Yeah, as soon as you sober up.