A Kentucky teen died in juvie hall after staffers used martial arts moves to restrain her ? and it took jail workers 11 minutes to start CPR after they found her unresponsive, according to 911 audio.
Gynnya McMillen, 16, was found "cold" and not breathing in her cell at Elizabethtown's Lincoln Village Juvenile Detention when a deputy arrived to take her to her Jan. 11 court date.
Jail staffers first called 911 nine minutes after the deputy arrived ? and waited another two to start CPR, according to emergency dispatch recordings obtained by CBS.
The juvie staffers only started the resuscitation procedures after the emergency dispatcher asked.
"They want us to start CPR," a jail nurse is heard saying to someone at the facility.
"Do y'all have a CPR protocol or do y'all need it?" the dispatcher asked about 10 seconds later.
"I'm new," she said. "I can find out. I don't know."
The detention center originally said that the teen had died in her sleep, but recently told the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting that a restraint had been applied to her during an incident the day before.
A spokeswoman for the state's Department of Juvenile Justice said that McMillen refused to take off her sweatshirt for a booking photo, prompting the "Aikido restraint" by multiple guards.
Aikido is a form of Japanese martial art that allows a practitioner to defend him or herself without hurting their attacker. Since Aikido is a style of martial arts and not a specific move, it's unclear exactly how the teen was restrained.
Michele Deitch, a juvenile justice expert at University of Texas at Austin, told CBS of the move's motive, "As far as I'm concerned that is a completely inappropriate use of a restraint."
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