CHICAGO — A couple was charged with aggravated battery after hitting paramedics who were trying to treat them.
Chicago Fire Department paramedics were responding to a call for an intoxicated female Sunday night, NBC Chicago reported.
As they approached the woman, Cherise Finley, they were confronted by her partner, Robert Adams, who started hitting one of the medics in the face and body and spitting in the paramedics’ faces.
Finley also scratched the medics’ faces. The couple then fled on foot, leading authorities on a foot chase.
Finley and Adams were taken into custody and charged with aggravated battery to a protected employee, a felony.
The paramedics had abrasions to their faces and were treated and released from a hospital.
“This is happening with frightening regularity,” said Tom Ryan, president of the Chicago Firefighters Union Local 2. “We’ve had people bit, spat upon, punched, kicked, knocked out. Jaws dislocated — this is all in the last year.”