"D.C. firefighters didn’t aid man who later died, report finds" Associated Press February 22, 2014
WASHINGTON — Five District of Columbia firefighters were aware that a man needed medical attention across the street from a fire station, but none of them went to help the man, who later died, according to an internal investigation released Friday.
The investigative report recommends disciplinary action against the five firefighters as well as four employees of the city’s 911 call center, for their roles in sending an ambulance to the wrong address.
Medric Cecil Mills Jr., 77, a longtime city employee, went into cardiac arrest in a shopping center parking lot across from a fire station on Jan. 25. According to the report, at least two people went across the street to the fire station and asked for help, but Mills did not receive aid until a police officer flagged down a passing ambulance. More than 22 minutes after he collapsed, he was taken to a hospital, where he died.
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"Judge overturns D.C. rule on guns | Associated Press July 28, 2014
WASHINGTON — A federal judge struck down the District of Columbia’s ban on carrying guns outside a person’s home, concluding it violates Second Amendment rights.
The ruling from US District Judge Frederick J. Scullin is the latest in a protracted fight over gun laws in Washington. In 2008, the US Supreme Court issued a landmark decision striking down the city’s 32-year-old ban on handguns.
Since then, the city has rewritten its laws, lawsuits have been filed, and even Congress has waded into the fight.
In a decision made public Saturday, Scullin concluded that the Second Amendment gives people the right to carry a gun outside the home for self-defense. He cited two US Supreme Court cases as important to his ruling — the 2008 opinion striking down the District of Columbia’s ban and a 2010 ruling involving Chicago’s handgun ban.
‘‘There is no longer any basis on which this court can conclude that the District of Columbia’s total ban on the public carrying of ready-to-use handguns outside the home is constitutional under any level of scrutiny,’’ wrote Scullin, who was appointed by President George H.W. Bush and is a retired Army colonel.
A city official said Sunday officials would ask for a stay and were weighing an appeal.
The new city rules require owners to register their guns and keep them in their homes.
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