‘You’d think they would have shown compassion’: patient’s son decries Kansas police who issued citation as father suffered
While he was glad the charge against his father was dropped, Lee Bretz, the patient’s son, said the incident was “humiliating” for his father and left him “pretty upset”.
A spokesperson for the Hays medical center in Hays, Kansas, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.opinion columnist for the Wichita Eagle On 19 December, hospital staff contacted the Hays police department about a patient vaping in a hospital room, which “they were concerned about as a potential fire hazard”, and also possessing THC, “which is illegal in the state of Kansas”, Hays police chief Don Scheibler said.was inaccurate, Scheibler said. “It’s not a raid.”
“At the end of the day, they showed compassion and empathy, and that’s what they want from law enforcement,” Scheibler said. “They made the decision to write the ticket and made the recommendation to dismiss it on their own. It wasn’t anything that happened in the news.”
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