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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(139,316 posts)
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 03:40 PM 22 hrs ago

McConnell was loaded into ambulance on a stretcher, according to eyewitness and new video

Emergency responders took Sen. Mitch McConnell to an ambulance on a stretcher after being called to his home last month for a report of an unconscious person, according to new video of the incident and an eyewitness account.

A neighbor of McConnell told CNN that they opened their door to find commotion outside their home at around 8:30 a.m. on June 14, with two ambulances a fire truck and Capitol Police officers blocking the entire street.

Videos taken by the neighbor show emergency responders wheeling a person on a stretcher toward an ambulance. The videos are shot from some distance, and the face of the person is not visible. Once in the ambulance, the person's lower legs appear to be covered by an orange blanket, but feet are visible.

The neighbor said they asked officers what was going on, and the officers responded that there had been a "medical emergency." But when the neighbor inquired if McConnell was having a medical emergency, officers said they would block the street for anybody. The neighbor said they learned from another eyewitness who saw the individual's face that the person on the stretcher was McConnell and he was not wearing an oxygen mask.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/mcconnell-loaded-ambulance-stretcher-according-091551820.html

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McConnell was loaded into ambulance on a stretcher, according to eyewitness and new video (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 22 hrs ago OP
Weekend with Mitch? Sancho 22 hrs ago #1
Recommended. H2O Man 22 hrs ago #2
I mean....duh! RockRaven 21 hrs ago #3
Pretty much any time EMS is called to take an elderly person to hospital, they use a stretcher. onenote 21 hrs ago #4
I was taken to the hospital in a stretcher. I was 55 at the time. My back was stuck. LeftInTX 21 hrs ago #7
I had been operating under the belief that he is alive but in a vegetive state but now it seems like he's dead. BannonsLiver 21 hrs ago #5
His feet are pink. That's all I can see and I don't know what it means. Except that his feet aren't blue. LeftInTX 21 hrs ago #8
"Shocking" video? Manatee 21 hrs ago #6
I thought he was rushed to hospital in an advanced care ambulance? LiberalArkie 21 hrs ago #9

RockRaven

(20,178 posts)
3. I mean....duh!
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 04:02 PM
21 hrs ago

Unconscious man who received CPR and has since spent a month (and counting) in the hospital didn't walk himself to the ambulance!? Quelle surprise!!!

onenote

(46,455 posts)
4. Pretty much any time EMS is called to take an elderly person to hospital, they use a stretcher.
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 04:06 PM
21 hrs ago

Hell, I fell and broke both my wrists a couple of years ago and I was taken to the ambulance on a stretcher.

Something may well be going on with McConnell, but this report is meaningless.

LeftInTX

(35,185 posts)
7. I was taken to the hospital in a stretcher. I was 55 at the time. My back was stuck.
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 04:19 PM
21 hrs ago

I had a nasty sciatic attack.

Went home that evening.

BannonsLiver

(21,206 posts)
5. I had been operating under the belief that he is alive but in a vegetive state but now it seems like he's dead.
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 04:14 PM
21 hrs ago

And has been for a month. The fact they would have probably started him on oxygen after a successful CPR effort but he was not observed with an oxygen mask seems suspicious.

LeftInTX

(35,185 posts)
8. His feet are pink. That's all I can see and I don't know what it means. Except that his feet aren't blue.
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 04:22 PM
21 hrs ago

If he was long dead, his feet wouldn't be pink and they probably wouldn't be exposed. I guess if CPR wasn't successful and some doc pronounced hm dead at his house, would they expose his feet? They could have carted him off in a body bag.

Someone saw his face. Was he dead?

How long were they there? But who knows? Is this story even accurate?

Manatee

(109 posts)
6. "Shocking" video?
Fri Jul 10, 2026, 04:19 PM
21 hrs ago

There's nothing shocking about a video of an 84 year old being loaded in to an ambulance.

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