After over two years of hoping and waiting that a Salt Lake City Civilian Review Board would offer justice for a stabbing victim allowed to bleed out for minutes under the eyes of police officers, a family is left with more heartbreak.
The board concluded “no determination is possible” against the officers who were accused of withholding vital aid that could have prevented the death of Ryan Outlaw, who died in November 2020.
For eight minutes Salt Lake City officers Ian Anderson and Jadah Brown stood by and watched as Outlaw lost blood in a building elevator. Outlaw had already been waiting for more than 20 minutes after he’d been stabbed before the police arrived on the scene.
Related: ‘What Am I Supposed to Do?’: Salt Lake City Officers Stand By and Watch Stabbing Victim Bleed Because They Didn’t Want an Elevator Door to Close. The Father of Four Dies.
Instead of utilizing their medical training, body-camera footage shows one of the Salt Lake officers scrolling through social media and playing games on his cellphone moments after refusing to provide first aid to Outlaw, who was slowly dying in front of him.
At one point, officers tell him to crawl out of the elevator, but they never once moved to try to stop his bleeding.
The woman who stabbed Outlaw in a domestic squabble was present and can be heard asking the officers, “You’re not doing anything about it.”
“What am I supposed to do? We have medical coming,” Officer Anderson snapped at the woman.
The Salt Lake City Police Department did an internal investigation, and even with the video evidence of the cops doing nothing, investigators cleared them of wrongdoing, according to local station Fox 13.
Before the investigation was complete, officials like Mayor Erin Mendenhall and Chief Mike Brown threw their support behind the officers, commending them on following proper departmental policy and procedure.
“Our officers, we believe, did as they were…
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