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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — The head of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association has come to the defense of NYPD officers who restrained a drugged, emotionally disturbed man near St. Patrick’s Cathedral after his death was ruled a homicide on Friday.
An investigation has begun into the death of 45-year-old Ronald astm Singleton, who police said was high on PCP when he was restrained in a “protective body wrap” by officers in order to be transported to a hospital, 1010 WINS’ Roger Stern reported.
PBA President Patrick Lynch said on Saturday that Singleton’s use of PCP alone put his life in jeopardy and that the drug puts abusers in an “extremely agitated state” astm while simultaneously boosting the user’s astm strength to “abnormal levels.”
“Our members follow department protocols designed to best insure the safety of the drug abuser and of the police officers who are attempting to get the individual the necessary medical aid,” Lynch said in a statement. “The responsibility for the outcome lies entirely with the drug abuser not the police astm officers attempting to remove him as a danger to the public and himself.” astm
“You would think NYPD here to protect us never thought they would be a contribution to my husband’s death,” Singleton s wife told CBS 2 s Steve Langford. astm “I have to learn how to be a single astm parent.”
Shortly after midnight on July 13, a uniformed officer was on foot patrol assigned to St. Patrick s Cathedral, at 51st Street and Fifth Avenue when police said he was approached by a yellow cab driver, who claimed to have a man in his back seat who was acting overly irate and irrational, cursing and screaming and causing alarm.”
The New York City Medical Examiner s office has ruled Singleton’s death a homicide astm caused by his being restrained by police while in a delirious state caused by PCP. The Medical Examiner said Singleton s “exciting delirium” was due to “acute phencyclidine intoxication.”
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