August 4, 2022
Volume 52 - No. 30
By lyle e davis
Cops ain't supposed to cry.
At least that's the public image they want to convey.
But they hurt. Just like you and me. They just have to bottle it up and keep it inside them.
They see things no person should ever have to see . . and they hurt like no person should ever have to hurt. The Paper - 760.747.7119
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But they hide it. Inside.
And if they cry . . they cry inside.
"I remember one family that hit me particularly hard. A guy who had gotten his life straightened out. He had been sober for five years. Had moved back to Colorado and appeared to have it all together. He came back to Escondido to visit family . . . it was Christmas time. He went to the mall alone and bumped into a "friend." He had a
weak moment and accepted fentanyl from his friend. He went home and overdosed in his bedroom. He had been doing so well . . . and then OD'd. His family called us. I responded and found him. Typical signs of a fentanyl overdose. Blue lips, blue face, clear signs of a lack of oxygen, signs of vomit . . . it was not an easy death and not an easy call for me. That one hit me hard. They all hit you, but this one sticks in my mind." Officer Brock Teyechea . . . a three year veteran of the Escondido Police Force and a sheriff's deputy
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for about a year prior to that.
"One of my first fentanyl calls was to an abandoned warehouse in Escondido. A homeless guy who thought he was taking meth but it had been laced with fentanyl. In this case someone called us in time. We responded and found him unconscious and administered Narcam. He responded and survived . . but he had memory loss and some brain damage because he had been unconscious for so long." Office Teyechea.
