The North Slope Borough is investigating three officers involved in the transportation of a 17-year-old's body after a suicide. A video showing the officers pulling the body on a rescue sled attached to an ATV sparked widespread criticism. Mayor Josiah Patkotak acknowledged a 'critical lapse in judgment' in transporting the teen after reaching the road system.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The North Slope Borough announced over the weekend that three officers connected to the Feb. 5 incident involving the transport of a
In a widely shared video on social media, an ATV can be seen pulling a rescue sled said to be carrying the body of 17-year-old Christian Vasquez to the hospital after the teen committed suicide. “The North Slope Borough Mayor’s Office continues to thoroughly examine the decision-making process that led to the handling of the Feb. 5 incident,” Borough Mayor Josiah Patkotak said inIn last week’s statement, Patkotak wrote about responding officers' “critical lapse in judgment” and how they transported Vasquez once they reached the road system.
By then, Patkotak said the officers had successfully transported the teen across what he described as “challenging terrain and weather conditions” that “required this specialized form of transportation.”Wreckage of missing plane found; No survivors ‘I’m hurt, that’s my little brother‘: family responds to teen’s body being pulled by sled through Utqiagvik streetAST says bodies of 10 killed in Bering Air plane crash have been recovered, names releasedPolice: Fairbanks woman suffered hallucinations before killing 6-year-old son
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