Tavares Police Officer Courtney Bannick is seen on bodycam video being given three doses of Narcan after collapsing during a routine traffic stop.
A police officer on the same scene as Bannick saw that she was fading out of consciousness and needed medical attention. Bannick was taken to a local hospital where she's expected to make a full recovery.
Bannick said the routine traffic stop was one that she had completed"hundreds" of times before experiencing the After searching a vehicle and its occupants, she ultimately found a dollar bill with the deadly drug inside. "I don't really remember much of the incident, but I do know that when I found the narcotics, it wasso I think I was trying to explain to them where exactly the drugs that I believed I was exposed to at the time was out, so they were aware, so it didn't happen to them as well," Bannick said.
"When I went to notify dispatch that we were actually going to head to the police department, I started to feel very lightheaded, and I couldn't really talk," Bannick said."I felt like I was choking. After watching the bodycam, now I hear myself, I was choking, but I remember consciously being aware I didn't think I was overdosing.
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