Should Cops Provide First Aid To People They Shoot

               The debate was first sparked in Chicago by the death of Marlon Horton, a 28-year-old man fatally shot by off-duty officer Kenneth Walker outside a west-side Chicago     Housing Authority building in September 2013. Walker worked as a security guard at the site; Horton had been unarmed.



               The lawsuit is still pending, but Granich says that both Moore and Walker have testified that they had first aid training.


    In addition, Dean Angelo Sr., president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7, the police union, has protested the idea that cops should be required to give first aid. 

    “Should the police be trained in first aid? Absolutely. Should they     apply it to trauma victims? Absolutely,” he says.



               At Friday’s City Council hearing, Brian Berkowitz, an instructor from CPD’s education and training division, pointed out that the first few minutes after     an officer is shot are crucial for his or her survival.