In an absolutely awful story that came out of the far-left sanctuary city of New York, now ruled by socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, it was revealed that hospital staff in the emergency room at New York University’s (NYU) Langone – Cobble Hill Emergency Room refused to treat two detectives who had been wounded in the line of duty.
Such is what the Detectives’ Endowment Association, a labor union that serves the tens of thousands of active duty and retired detectives in New York City, revealed in a heartbreaking and infuriating announcement posted to X, a message that was amplified by Councilwoman Vickie Paladino, a conservative who represents Queens.
Beginning the infuriating post, the Detectives’ Endowment Association said that the woke hospital staff behaved by treating the wounded detectives poorly, saying, “Last week, two NYPD Detectives were mistreated while seeking medical attention at NYU Langone – Cobble Hill Emergency Room after being injured on duty during the arrest of a violent perpetrator. Upon arrival, they were met with rudeness, disrespect, and a lack of basic professional courtesy by hospital administrators.”
Continuing, the labor union revealed that the staff didn’t treat the detectives, saying, “It is an outrage that any NYPD Detective injured in the line of duty should have to worry about being treated at any hospital in the city they protect. As nurses across the city strike over issues like workplace safety, treating Detectives poorly is not how to make hospitals safer.”
Then, vowing that the hospital staff would face consequences for how it treated the detectives, the union said, “No one—especially Detectives injured in the line of duty—should face such treatment. The DEA is investigating this matter and will pursue all available remedies to ensure our members are treated with the dignity and respect they have earned.”
Councilwoman Paladino added more details in a quote tweet of the union’s post, beginning it by making it very clear that the staff had outright refused to treat the wounded detectives, saying, “Let’s be clear about this — hospital staff refused to treat plainclothes NYPD detectives injured in the line of duty. Not only that, these officers were treated with contempt completely outside ethical bounds for medical personnel.”
Further, the Queens councilwoman noted that the refusal came because the staff didn’t want to treat ICE agents, which they thought the detectives to be. She said, “From what I understand, staff supposedly did this because they thought the NYPD officers might have been ‘ICE agents’ as if that is a valid excuse to refuse a patient.”
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Noting just how bad of news this is, she then said, “Let’s be very clear about something — when doctors and nurses and medical staff begin to refuse critical care over perceived political differences, we will have reached a breaking point in this country . . . If the medical profession has now abandoned that basic morality, and patients now have to worry about being refused treatment — or worse — because of political hostility from their own countrymen, then a rubicon has truly been crossed and there isn’t much else to say.”
Concluding, she commented on how the moral rot of leftism has brought us to this point, saying, “This is a disgrace, it is unacceptable, and it is indicative of the profound moral rot that progressive activism has brought into every corner of our civics. The left is taking us down a very dark path indeed.”