Cops say they're being poisoned by fentanyl. Experts say the risk is 'extremely low'
Last December, Officer Courtney Bannick was on the job for the Tavares, Fla., police department when she came into contact with a powder she believed was street fentanyl.
The footage from another officer's body camera shows Bannick appearing to lose consciousness before being lowered to the ground by other cops.
"I was light-headed a little bit," Bannick later told WKMG, a local television station. "I was choking, I couldn't breathe."
Other officers can be heard on the tape describing Bannick's medical condition as an overdose. They administered Narcan, a medication that reverses opioid poisoning.
"She's breathing," a cop says. "Stay with me!"
The Tavares police department blamed, a television station in Orlando, she said she felt lucky to be alive.
