Woman Calls 911 - Officer Makes Worst Decision Ever

A Florida woman called 911 because she believed she was suffering a heart attack. When the dispatcher sent the call out to an officer, he made the worst decision ever.

The woman, Gwen Minnis, 47, had just gotten out of the hospital three days earlier after suffering her first heart attack. The familiar feeling came back, so she called 911.

The dispatcher sent the call out to Lee County Sheriff’s Deputy Yvan Fernandez, who acknowledged receiving the call.

Then, instead of, oh I don't know...rushing to the scene? Fernandez decided to have lunch. He was eating lunch with three other officers at a pizza place about 15 minutes away from Minnis.

Fernandez did not arrive at the scene for OVER AN HOUR after he received the call. In fact, he didn't send the call to another officer for almost half an hour after getting the call. The dispatcher followed up with him 8 minutes after the initial call to make sure he received it, and was on his way.

He wasn't. He just kept eating with his buddies. When the second deputy finally arrived at the scene a full 53 minutes after the initial call, he found Minnis lying in the front yard of a friend's house...covered in ants.

Sadly, Minnis was already dead.

Fernandez did finally show up...and hour and 10 minutes after receiving the initial call.

“He got the call and he acknowledged the call and didn’t give any reason why he wouldn’t respond,” Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott told WINK TV, which first reported the deputy’s bizarre decision. “We had every reason to believe that he was going to respond to that call.”

An internal affairs report stated that officers are entitled to designated meal breaks that exempts them from responding to calls, but Fernandez was not on one of his authorized breaks.

Fernandez, who acknowledged that he failed to follow protocol, was fired from his job. However, he's hired a lawyer to fight his dismissal.

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