On 11/11/18 Sunday Morning at 9:07 a.m. at the Red Roof Inn on S I-35, wife and son of grandfather and Arkansas resident, 64 y/o Richard G. White, frantically requested medical assistance and an ambulance from 911 dispatchers.  Three 911 calls were made requesting an ambulance for an unconscious elderly patient having breathing troubles.  The APD dispatcher told the first two callers that an ambulance had been dispatched and was on the way to the scene, however this was a lie.  During the third call with a bystander and complete stranger, the dispatcher instructed him to perform CPR even though he stated he did not know how; simultaneously commanding him to do CPR while sending police to do a check welfare, instead of an ambulance.  Really?  The APD dispatcher simultaneously commanded the untrained stranger to perform CPR and sent Police, NOT an ambulance?  The APD dispatcher changed the call from a 911 Priority 1 Medical Emergency to a non-emergency 311 Check Welfare call while commanding someone to do chest compressions on a LIVING heart patient - this is CHILLING COLD BLOODED.  Instead of dispatching an ambulance as requested by all three 911 callers, the APD dispatcher lied, illegally changed the call to a 311 non-emergency and sent APD patrol officers and firefighters to "Check the Welfare" of the patient, violating Health and Safety Code, Texas Administrative Code, and the City-County Work Agreement which requires an ambulance to be dispatched immediately in a Priority 1 medical emergency. 

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Why is the APD 911 dispatcher instructing someone to perform CPR basic life-support, but refuses to dispatch an ambulance and instead changes the call to a 311 non-emergency?  This is illegal and grossly malicious in the most disgusting way.  The APD dispatcher ensured Richard (a Priority 1 patient) would never receive ANY medical treatment from a licensed medical professional but only be crushed by CPR until certain death; ensuring that he and the family would never see the inside of the major hospital and trauma center barely a mile away.  Richard had ZERO chance of survival from the brutal chest compressions.  Why are they performing CPR if they are not going to take the patient to the hospital.  This is bizarre and painfully disgusting.  Is this routine APD protocol?  Sending AFD to "assist" in a call, but never sending EMS?  Why on Earth would APD and AFD be dispatched to a 911 Priority 1 Medical Emergency with a LIVING patient instead of ATCEMS?  Apparently saving lives is counter productive towards APDs goals.  How could they charge someone with murder if nobody dies?  Otherwise they would send ambulances before anything else, rather than lying to callers and not sending one at all, sending police instead.

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Richard and his family waited frantically for an ambulance to arrive as promised, only to have APD and AFD arrive on scene and begin chest compressions that ultimately crushed Richard's chest in and caused severe internal bleeding and hemorrhaging.  Richard began spewing blood and bodily fluids from his mouth as the firefighters looked around frantically and turned him on his side, dumping the fluids.  The son was detained by APD and kept from speaking to firefighters and EMS, unable to communicate critical information regarding his medical history of COPD, Sleep Apnea, and a heart stent, and were unable to call his primary care physician or anyone for help.

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Richard's son was detained and forced to watch firefighters crush their loved one's chest in for almost 40 minutes until police illegally demanded that firefighters cease efforts and abandon the patient.  Richard's wife was questioned and made to turn away from Richard by police, but as more blood started coming out of Richard's mouth, they commanded her to go around the other side of the building away from Richard.  Richard was covered with a white sheet, abandoned by EMS and firefighters and was never transported to the hospital.

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Richard G. White 64 y/o grandfather and loved member of his community never received proper medical care or transport to a hospital.  APD felt more inclined to interrogate his wife about drug activity in the city that they do not even live in, than aid in the critical patient care that Richard required.  APD completely prevented any possibility of Richard ever receiving transport by an ambulance by never dispatching one, illegally seizing control of a medical emergency and detaining his family.

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This is gross negligence, recklessness, and malicious intentional misconduct by all first responders on scene, which caused the wrongful and completely unnecessary death of Richard G. White.