CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. — A squad car video recently released by the Chippewa Falls Police Department details a traffic stop involving a 29-year-old man having an asthma attack and died at a hospital.
Casey Kressin was a passenger in the vehicle that was pulled over Nov. 30 for speeding and running a red light. The video shows Kressin steps out of the car, waves at the officer and kneels on the pavement. The driver, Leah Hryniewicki, tells the officer Kressin can't breathe because he's having an asthma attack.
"He's going to die! This has happened before," she says. Hryniewicki also tells the officer Kressin has been using a nebulizer to breathe.
The officer then can be heard paging an EMS unit, the Chippewa Herald (http://bit.ly/1x6iTUx ) reported.
"Can you bring him to the hospital?" Hryniewicki asks, before switching gears to ask about the ambulance. "Where is it? Where did it go?"
A second officer arrives on the scene, according to the video.
"Can't we just go? I would have made it there," Hryniewicki says.
One of the officers tells Hryniewicki he cannot administer medical treatment to Kressin. The video shows the ambulance arrives less than 6 minutes after the call was placed. Several minutes later, Kressin is on a stretcher and rushed to the hospital, where he later died.
