CASE STUDY #2

Alexander Kaplan, a 40year-old paramedic assigned to EMS Station 44 in Brownsville, Brooklyn, is currently on the shelf with a line-of-duty knee injury after being attacked by an emotionally disturbed patient.

Kaplan had just transported a patient to a Brooklyn hospital the night of May 14, when another patient got up and started throwing punches at a cop there.

The first responder was injured when his partner went over to help the officer restrain the combatant.

“The patient violently kicked the back of both of my legs. I fell down to the ground and he proceeded to kick me on my side and my back,” the 16-year EMS veteran said.

“Nobody knew why this guy became so violent.”