Summary: In Russia, an autopsy showed that a patient from a hospital had suffered severe head trauma. When investigating security footage, it was shown that the doctor had punched the patient. This video went viral. If you watch the whole video, you see that the patient had gotten angry for some reason and kicked the nurse. The doctor punched the patient and the patient hit his head on the ground. The doctor was not trying to kill the patient, he was trying to keep everybody safe. The doctor was fired from the hospital and is now on house arrest. He is still under investigation and may face up to two years in prison.
Analysis: I think this whole situation is very strange. First of all, what provoked the patient to start resisting and to strike at his nurse? This doctor, from what I read in the article, seems to have just been trying to protect those around him so I don't see why the man would need to be on house arrest or in prison. He hit the patient in a moment where he probably couldn't think of anything else to do. There obviously has to be something in the rest of the video that hasn't been released that has triggered to investigators that some kind of foul play must've been involved. We see all these killings lately and I feel like its just getting out of hand. We see these people of authority, like police and, in this case, a doctor, killing these people in situations in which there are other ways of resolving the problem. These police officers could find ways of restraining these people using a taser, or even just shooting them in the hand in they absolutely have to! There is no point, in all of these recent cases, for these officers to shoot to kill. This doctor could've sedated the patient instead of using force.
Link: http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/09/europe/russia-doctor-beating-patient/index.html
I like how you're able to tie this to and make it relevant to the police state-like situation we're facing in America, helps with APUSH synthesis stuff. Restraining people has always been something officials have always seemed to have trouble doing while simultaneously restraining themselves from using force on the person. Not quite sure how they find it to be such a difficult concept.
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Great point, I agree with more ways to restrict police officers from using lethal force, but sadly as you proved in this analysis, you can't stop a human from using their hands.
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