Dallas Fire Rescue: Kicking Patients Standard of Care?

The Dallas Fire Rescue Department appears to have new treatments at its disposal. Kicking patients standard of care now after former firefighter/paramedic Brad Cox was not charged after an internal public integrity investigation.

Cox was filmed on police body camera kicking a homeless man repeatedly in the head.

Dallas Fire has terminated Brad Cox, but the Texas Department of State Health Services still shows him with an active paramedic license.

One attorney in the area called the situation “tragic.”

“This situation should have been prosecuted, but instead the thin blue line returns to protect the fire service. This is why people take the law into their own hands,” she continued. “By not handling the situation appropriately we are encouraging every day citizens to act out because they know those held to the highest standards have no standards.”

Kicking Patients Standard of Care Nationwide

In 2020 a Fairfax paramedic was charged with assault. In that case police officers on scene were recording the incident on body worn cameras as was the case in Dallas. It is unclear why officers on scene in Dallas did not intervene during the assault.

More recently Edward Blake was sentenced after being labeled a serial rapist by local police officials who also acted when information was presented about him using department drugs to intoxicate his victims.