Your story reminds me of cop body cam videos that have been making the rounds on YouTube. An elderly black man with severe dementia wandered into a Kentucky convenience store. He was lost and confused, and his family were desperately searching for him.

Somebody at the store called the police because he was acting erratically. The cop showed up, and within a few minutes had beat the holy living shit out of the guy … who was not the least bit violent or combative.

The cop had decided that the man was on drugs, and therefore apparently deserved to be beaten. (That's a whole other story!)

The reason I'm commenting under your story now is how paramedics behaved when they arrived. They simply accepted the cop’s explanation that the man was on meth. He wasn't behaving in any way consistent with meth, and later medical test demonstrated he had no drugs of any kind in his system.

The paramedics treated the elderly man with something like depraved indifference. They didn't beat him like the cop did, but they didn't provide the kind of tender care that an elderly man with dementia deserves. They talked to him like he was a problem. They condescended to him.

Because a suffering Black man must be ... something less in their eyes.