I'm a first responder with a key to nearby defibrillators. Our training is to go in and first of all start cpr with heart compressions and hold doing that until the AED or EMTs arrive. I can say with certainty that to stop me from doing that in a situation where a person is down would not be easy. There is no subtlety to my training.
In the scenario set by the OP where the person is up and about walking the dog?? Maybe if the person is clearly severely debilitated and has a bedside caregiver I could be restrained but in that case it's unlikely a call for defib would go out. Calls for defib are made only after a 911 call is screened for apparent heart attack victims.
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