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WATCH: Florida Officer Saved by Narcan After Accidental Fentanyl Exposure
A Florida police officer who overdosed after being accidentally exposed to fentanyl was saved by fellow officers who administered Narcan to her.
Officer Courtney Bannick was conducting a traffic stop after midnight Tuesday when she found narcotics on a passenger, according to the Tavares Police Department via Fox 35.
Bannick placed the passenger into custody, but she started to experience difficulty breathing and was choking.
When a nearby officer checked on Bannick, he saw her drifting in and out of consciousness and determined she needed immediate medical attention.
Body camera footage then shows two Tavares police officers and a K-9 handler from the Astatula Police Department removing Bannick from her vehicle and administering three doses of Narcan.
Narcan is the brand name for a life-saving nasal spray that contains naloxone, which is used to reverse the effects of a potentially fatal opioid drug overdose.
After being given naloxone, Bannick is seen returning to life before appearing to go in and out of consciousness again. She was taken to a nearby hospital and is expected to recover.
“She doesn’t really remember very much. She remembers waking up and seeing everyone surrounding her. She remembers feeling like she could breathe. She said obviously it’s freaky to see her in such a lifeless state,” Detective Courtney Sullivan told clickorlando.com.
Police say Bannick was following protocols while handling the narcotics during the traffic stop, noting she was wearing gloves.
“I have done this one-hundred times before the same way. It only takes one time and a minimal amount,” said Bannick. “I’m thankful I wasn’t alone and had immediate help.”
“If the other officers weren’t there, there’s a very chance and probability that today would be different,” Sullivan added.
The suspects from the traffic stop are potentially facing felony charges but will not be identified until they are formally charged, according to Tavares police.
Over 107,000 Americans died from a drug overdose in 2021, with 66 percent of those related to synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl.
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Exclusive — Sen. Marsha Blackburn, National Sheriffs’ Association Discuss Border Human Rights ‘Train Wreck’
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Jonathan Thompson, the CEO of the National Sheriffs’ Association, discussed the border human rights “train wreck” on Blackburn’s Unmuted with Marsha podcast.
Blackburn discussed how Mexican cartels were active in her state and she said that many sheriffs in Tennessee may not be prepared to fight against the cartels.
“I hear from our sheriffs that they say, we don’t have the training and the equipment to go head to head with these drug dealers or people that are, that have been trained on how to push these drugs into communities,” Blackburn said.
Thompson described the border as a “human rights train wreck,” noting that it impacts Americans across the country:
You know, the criminal mind is, is devious beyond words. And the cartels though, are smart beyond words. They have more money, they have more technology, they have more people, they have more resources at their disposal, and they’ve got a willing customer and addicted customer as well. Now what’s happened even more so is this human smuggling is just a tragic, tragic situation. We are becoming our own human rights train wreck along the southern border, and we’ve got to stand up and we’ve gotta say, enough is enough. The cartels are sophisticated, they have an enormous network of financial support, and they have a very deep desire to make money. And, and, and I like to say they wake up every day wondering how can they make more money off the backs of the Americans? How can they take from America, which is what they want.
Breitbart News reported that 7,400 migrants crossed the Mexican border to El Paso, Texas over the weekend.
Thompson added, “We’ve gotta stand tall and people like you are helping us do that.”
Sean Moran is a policy reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.
Amnesty Push Exposes Divide Between Working Americans and Donor Class
An effort to push amnesty for illegal aliens through the lame duck session of Congress is exposing a long-lasting, deep divide between most working Americans and the donor class.
Currently, Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) are negotiating a plan to give amnesty to at least two million illegal aliens living in the United States. The plan, the Senators hope, would be rammed through the lame duck Congress before Republicans take the majority in the House.
In the recent midterm elections, though, a plurality of voters told Rasmussen Reports that amnesty for illegal aliens would only make the nation’s record-setting illegal immigration levels worse.
More notably, 51 percent of voters with only a high school education said amnesty would make illegal immigration worse and 50 percent of those who attended college but did not graduate said the same.
These are the working and lower-middle class Americans who are most likely to compete against cheaper foreign workers, often illegally in the U.S., for jobs in the labor market and whose wages are the most likely to be crushed by inflation in the market, research has repeatedly shown.
In 2013, Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis stated that the “Gang of Eight” amnesty plan would “slightly” push down wages for American workers. Another CBO analysis, published in 2020, stated that “immigration has exerted downward pressure on the wages of relatively low-skilled workers who are already in the country, regardless of their birthplace.”
Other research finds current legal immigration to the U.S. results in more than $530 billion worth of lost wages for Americans.
Recent peer-reviewed research by economist Christoph Albert acknowledges that “as immigrants accept lower wages, they are preferably chosen by firms and therefore have higher job finding rates than natives, consistent with evidence found in US data.”
Meanwhile, the donor class has lined up to back the Tillis-Sinema amnesty.
As Breitbart News reported, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Hotel and Lodging Association, National Restaurant Association, and the Koch network of organizations are lobbying lawmakers in Washington, DC, to support the amnesty in the lame duck session.
The groups’ political action committees have donated to either Tillis, Sinema, or both.
Likewise, billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us investor group is also asking lawmakers to back the Tillis-Sinema amnesty via the Niskanen Center they help fund.
The corporate donor-funded organizations have long represented their own financial interests when lobbying for amnesty and mass immigration — seeking to inflate the labor market to keep U.S. wages down, import a compliant underclass of foreign workers, grow profit margins, and add to an expanding consumer base to which to sell products.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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