wasnt_me
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Both. Or either.
That made me chuckle.
I get you. I don't think he really has a defense. I think it's something he's done for a long time and gotten away with. It might have been something he was once trained to do, and even though he'd been trained not to anymore or whatever, he just kept doing it. He might not have thought GF was going to die from it. Others hadn't, right?
If I'm going along with that, the problem for me comes in when GF loses his pulse, stops talking, moving, and breathing. There's just no excuse to keep kneeling and not providing aid.
Say DC did get off him and provide aid at that point, but GF still died. I might not feel the way I do about it if that had happened. I can't get beyond DC being unchanged by GF having no pulse.
Others have suggested he didn't hear that GF had no pulse, but there was nothing wrong with his ears, and even if it didn't hear, I think he was in a position to check it on his own. He didn't need to wait for someone to tell him GF had no pulse, and if he did, well, the bystanders were telling him. They were pretty loud. So I can't excuse it.
But I hear how you feel. You are empathizing with DC because of your own history, but I really think you should separate yourself from him because you said you'd never make this kind of mistake. 9:29 minutes is a long time to keep making that mistake. It kind of seems intentional after that amount of time.