Victoria police officer stabbed with needle while administering naloxone to unconscious person
A Victoria police officer was stabbed with a needle by a bystander while responding to an overdose on Saturday night, the department says in a news release.
The incident took place at around 8:30 p.m., when officers on patrol in the 900-block of Pandora Avenue were alerted by people in the area that a person was experiencing an overdose nearby. The officers found the unconscious person, who did not have a pulse and was not breathing, in the 900-block of Mason Street and immediately administered the nasal Naloxone they were carrying.
As officers started to provide CPR and chest compressions on the unconscious person, a group gathering nearby tried to intervene and stop them, police said. Officers in the 900-block of Pandora Saturday were told a person was overdosing nearby. Officers were giving Naloxone & CPR when a crowd surrounded & tried to stop them. When more officers responded, one of them was stabbed with a needle.
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