I do know that some Corrections officers at prisons are awfully proud of their gaseous emissions.
The behavior can’t be justified. The RN had the right of it, did all the correct things, and rightfully refused to compromise her patient’s care. The officer blew it completely and certainly badly damaged future hospital-police relations at that institution.
I love nurses; I’m privileged to work with many who have that strength of character and dedication to patient care, no matter who the patient is.
No one involved had been involved in the highway pursuit, The accident happened in Logan Utah, the hospital was in Salt lake city the two cities are separated by about 80 miles.
The nurse should not have been arrested in the first place, and even if she should have, there was no need to attack her, physically, like he did. This does not rise to the level of some of the shootings by cops we’ve seen, but it’s still unjustified.
The video currently in the article shows ‘Payne interrupting Wubbels as she continues to explain the policy to him…’ Wubbles has someone (the hospital administrator?) on speaker on her smartphone. Wubbels is seen to be calm and non-confrontational.
Administrator[?]: Yeah, but sir, you’re making a huge mistake right now. Like… Like you’re making a huge mistake because you’re threatening a nurse…
Officer Payne: OK. No, we’re done. We’re done. You’re under arrest. We’re going. We’re done.
It is at this point where Officer Payne assaults the nurse, who had remained calm until he assaulted her.
One other point, here: The articles mentioned that the cop in question was part of the police phlebotomy unit, one of about 10 cops on the force who were trained and authorized to draw blood. Wouldn’t you think that that training would include when he’s allowed to draw blood? I mean, it’s one thing for an ordinary cop on the beat who never does blood draws to not keep abreast of the relevant laws and court decisions, but this guy wasn’t an ordinary cop on the beat: Knowing that was literally his job.
Often people don’t know things that are literally their job. He doesn’t get excused for being an asshole, but I can see that he was in tough spot. He thinks, and his supervisor confirms, that he can and needs to draw blood. If a nurse is stopping him from that, what are his options here?
I think he was referring to more in general. If officers are trained as phlebotomists, that means that they are drawing from suspects on a somewhat regular basis.
And I would agree, given the way offices care about suspect rights, and given the way this particular officer was treating a nurse that upset him, I can certainly see him following trump’s advice of not being too nice.
Did you see the police press conference? It’s enough to make you vomit, seriously. It’s nothing but half truths, evasion, and weaselling. They had a femake cop/community liaison person, who then fielded all the questions that required answering like, “no, he was absolutely in the wrong!”, because the cops aren’t saying that.
They claim he’s been removed but if you listen closely, removed ‘from the blood draw program’. They just want everybody to trust in the process, y’know? Oh, and they’ve apologized. There were four other cops on the scene. Who did nothing and face no consequences. Who is gonna trust in the process now?
I hope the nurse hires an attorney before the sun sets and sues them large. LARGE! And when she’s done I hope the hospital does the same thing, for endangering lives by arresting/removing the head nurse from the emergency burn ward mid shift.
Again, the patient was a reserve police officer. Not only was that why they were so eager to protect him, but he would have been treated with kid gloves during the illegal procedure.
Yes, after the press conference. For the last 5 weeks he has been on active duty. The nurse seems to have a very good attorney, or at least one that understands the PR aspects of this quite well.