Today in cops gone feral

[dixiehack]

They may only shoot black people, but they'll manhandle anybody! Including blonde nurses doing their job.

By all accounts, the head nurse at the University of Utah Hospital’s burn unit was professional and restrained when she told a Salt Lake City police detective he wasn’t allowed to draw blood from a badly injured patient.

The detective didn’t have a warrant, first off. And the patient wasn’t conscious, so he couldn’t give consent. Without that, the detective was barred from collecting blood samples — not just by hospital policy, but by basic constitutional law.

Payne snapped. He seized hold of the nurse, shoved her out of the building and cuffed her hands behind her back. A bewildered Wubbels screamed “help me” and “you’re assaulting me” as the detective forced her into an unmarked car and accused her of interfering with an investigation.

It is getting harder and harder for me to give a **** about blue lives when they take it as a license to bully. Watch the video with the story.

‘This is crazy,’ sobs Utah hospital nurse as cop roughs her up, arrests her for doing her job

 

[LongTimeListener]

That is amazing. Given the minor scale of what the case was about, this could be the most out-of-control response we've seen. Bonus points for his repeated admissions that what he wanted to do was unconstitutional and he had no probable cause, but **** it I'm gonna do it anyway.

Nurse was formerly known as Alex Shaffer, U.S. Olympic skier in '98 and '02.

 

[qtlaw]

That's one of the most shocking things I've ever seen; man she's not even accused of being a criminal. Not even in the zone of potential criminality.

That guy needs to be fired; go start your security gig at Home Depot, now.

The luckiest thing that's happened so far is the nurse has not pursued the damages for the blatant violation of her civil rights. She needs to get paid for what she endured.

Most importantly, I commend her for protecting her patient's right to privacy.

Love how the guy in the body cam says "why don't we just get a warrant?" and the officer says we can't, which means YOU'RE NOT ENTITLED TO DRAW THE BLOOD!

 

[typefitter]

That cop should be in significant trouble, including assault charges possibly. She did everything right. He did everything wrong. The guy in the background saying, "You're making a big mistake" was bang on the money.

 

[dixiehack]

That cop should be in significant trouble, including assault charges possibly. She did everything right. He did everything wrong. The guy in the background saying, "You're making a big mistake" was bang on the money.

Wasn't a guy in the background. It was her supervisor on speakerphone trying to talk some sense into Tackleberry.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I'm disturbed that the cop was pulled off the blood collecting unit, but is still on active duty.

Put him behind a desk until the inevitable resignation.

 

[dixiehack]

Wonder if the cop still has his side hustle?

As he stands in the hospital parking lot after the arrest, Payne says to another officer that he wonders how this event will affect an off-duty job transporting patients for an ambulance company.

“I’ll bring them all the transients and take good patients elsewhere,” Payne says.

Video shows Utah nurse screaming, being dragged into police car after refusing to let officer take blood from unconscious victim

 

[User 149557]

Detective Payne? Was Sgt. Slaughter off duty?

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Every Salt Lake City taxpayer should sue this jackass for their share of the inevitable seven-figure settlement the city will reach with the nurse. He should also be arrested himself, but that won't happen.

 

[poindexter]

“I’ll bring them all the transients and take good patients elsewhere,” Payne says.
Terrible cop and an asshole to boot.

 

[Batman]

The cop's lieutenant ordered him to arrest the nurse if she didn't comply?
WTF?
What was even the point of that? The suspect they were chasing was dead. The guy they were trying to collect blood from was an innocent bystander. Were they really going to charge the badly injured guy who got run into head-on with a DUI? What prosecutor is going to pursue that?
And even if you get the blood it's not going to be admissible in court.
So much arrogance and stupidity that it astounds the senses.

 

[dixiehack]

And if they'd let him draw blood, the unconscious driver would have sued the police AND the hospital, a double whammy for taxpayers.

 

[User 4332]

The cop's lieutenant ordered him to arrest the nurse if she didn't comply?
WTF?
What was even the point of that? The suspect they were chasing was dead. The guy they were trying to collect blood from was an innocent bystander. Were they really going to charge the badly injured guy who got run into head-on with a DUI? What prosecutor is going to pursue that?
And even if you get the blood it's not going to be admissible in court.
So much arrogance and stupidity that it astounds the senses.

The truck driver was also a cop in another jurisdiction. They wanted his blood to prove he was clean and that impairment on his part did not contribute to the fatal crash. Because he was not considered a suspect in any way, they could not possibly get a search warrant because they had no probable cause that he had done anything wrong.

 

[CD Boogie]

JFC, that is insane. Fire him immediately.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

I'm withholding judgment until we determine if the nurse was an angel.

 

[Batman]

The truck driver was also a cop in another jurisdiction. They wanted his blood to prove he was clean and that impairment on his part did not contribute to the fatal crash. Because he was not considered a suspect in any way, they could not possibly get a search warrant because they had no probable cause that he had done anything wrong.

That first part is probably what Payne will lean on in a feeble defense of this.
"That was my brother, man! What would you do if you saw your brother laying there like that? Huh? HUH!?"

And I do get the rationale behind it, I guess. Even if the truck driver wasn't a cop, it could protect him on a number of levels. I even get the frustration of being told "no" for what can feel like silly bureaucracy by a mid-level employee. I think we've all been there when trying to chase down a phone number for someone and a secretary stonewalls us because they can.
It's still stupid. Silly bureaucracy is kind of what cops have to live by.

 

[JC]

There are many sides.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Usually stories of manhandling a poor blonde nurse involve high-grade painkillers.

 

[swingline]

Some good people -- on both sides.

 

[typefitter]

That first part is probably what Payne will lean on in a feeble defense of this.
"That was my brother, man! What would you do if you saw your brother laying there like that? Huh? HUH!?"

And I do get the rationale behind it, I guess. Even if the truck driver wasn't a cop, it could protect him on a number of levels. I even get the frustration of being told "no" for what can feel like silly bureaucracy by a mid-level employee. I think we've all been there when trying to chase down a phone number for someone and a secretary stonewalls us because they can.
It's still stupid. Silly bureaucracy is kind of what cops have to live by.

Not being able to take blood from unconscious people doesn't qualify as "silly bureaucracy" for me, but I'm a socialist.