KC First Responders Confront Attacks Including Spiter Shouting: 'I Have AIDS!!!'

A slice of life from a treacherous career track that puts HEROES in the line of danger in both the urban core and the suburbs . . . Here's the word: 

Kansas City firefighter-paramedic Graham Hoffman was on the job when a patient, his patient, stabbed and killed him, according to investigators.

When he died, it seemed as though the whole city went into mourning.

Two months later, another medic came under attack, bitten on his stomach in the back of an ambulance. More recently, according to a probable cause affidavit from a Kansas City detective, on July 6,  a man off his medications threatened to kill himself and tried to assault two paramedics and a Kansas City police officer as they rode to a hospital.

Court papers say the man also allegedly spat into one of their faces saying, "I have AIDS."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

The Danger of Responding First: Assaults against first responders and frontline workers soaring

A U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics fact sheet shows between 2011 and 2018, injuries intentionally caused to healthcare workers per year rose from 8,180 to 15,230.