A pair of Springfield EMT’s reportedly “knew better and just didn’t care”

Posted on January 10, 2023
Now they are in another place they don’t want to be: the Sangamon County jail, charged with first degree murder, on $1 million bond. (Photo Courtesy of Dave Dahl)

By Dave Dahl

SPRINGFIELD – The December death of a Springfield man has drawn the attention of the NAACP.

Teresa Haley, the organization’s president in Springfield and in Illinois, says the case of Earl Moore, Jr., 35, shows the disparities in health care for Blacks and whites. Moore, who was Black, was hallucinating when a loved one called 9-1-1. EMT’s Peter Cadigan and Peggy Finley allegedly were rough with Moore, putting him prone on a stretcher and strapping him in tightly across his back.

Coroner Jim Allmon says the cause of death is compressional positional asphyxia.

Haley, who says Moore would be alive today were he white, said Finley and Cadigan acted as if they didn’t want to be there. Now they are in another place they don’t want to be: the Sangamon County jail, charged with first degree murder, on $1 million bond.

Dave Dahl can be reached at [email protected].

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