On a cold December night in 2023, the staff at Providence Milwaukie Hospital in Milwaukie, Ore., called local police. They wanted help getting one of their patients, a 26-year-old man named Jean Descamps, out of the emergency room.
“He’s been evaluated medically. There’s no medical problems for him,” a member of the hospital team, who NPR has not been able to identify, told police. The moment was captured on an officer’s body camera.
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