July 31 2017, guy fleeing police crosses median and slams into truck and dies. The truck catches fire severely burning the innocent driver, Mr. Gray, who was taken to SLC University. Police later showed up demanding to the UNCONSCIOUS innocent patient's blood. RN Alex shows them the policy requiring consent, arrest, or a warrant. Hospital administration back up RN Alex.
Police aggressively arrest RN Alex and removes her from the hospital. Officer body cam insanity released today:
In this video, the aggressive officer can be heard saying that he will ensure all the "transients" are brought to this hospitals ED since they won't cooperate after being told the administrators and privacy officer are on their way.
Original Crash (graphic):
Interesting note about Alex, she was a 2x Olympian, US Ski Team member, and national champion is Slalom and GS.
Congratulations, you get the award for the most ignorant comment of the day. Yes, the cop involved in this scenario has very poor judgement, but lumping all cops together and saying "law enforcement does not want smart cops" says a lot more about your intelligence level than theirs.
When cops earn back the respect they have squandered by protecting their culture of brutality, racism and murder with impunity, maybe then I'll believe they only want the best and brightest amongst their ranks. It's clear that today they are not recruiting from the top of the barrel.
Supervisor Tracy should've received the same punishment, he actually is the one who started this whole thing, and IMO his behavior at the car was possibly more offensive than the arrest procedure.
Supervisor Tracy should've received the same punishment, he actually is the one who started this whole thing, and IMO his behavior at the car was possibly more offensive than the arrest procedure.
I'd have to agree, the attitude & tone of what he told her in the case was inexcusable, criminal actually. He knew he was doing the wrong thing & just didn't care who got hurt.
I think the thing that really grinds on me with this has been the cop-defenders saying it's "blown out of proportion" and that the cops involved shouldn't lose their jobs.
Nurse Wubbels did risk *knowingly* risk both her job and her license to protect the patient. If the arrest had stuck, especially with how cops like to add "resisting arrest" to charges, she could have easily lost both her job and her license.. For an officer to be able to destroy her career & think it's "ok" is just, well, unjust. There really needs to be real consequences for going that far over the line & I personally think criminal charges are warranted and appropriate. This was a false arrest.
I'd have to agree, the attitude & tone of what he told her in the case was inexcusable, criminal actually. He knew he was doing the wrong thing & just didn't care who got hurt.
His exceedingly condescening talk about "your policy interfering with my law" and his lectures about THE LAW are why he should not have a job. He actually was wrong about "the law." Just absolutely despicable.
I'm satisfied justice has been served. One career has ended, and another was demoted all the way back to the start.
This part had to hurt:
"I have lost faith and confidence in your ability to continue to serve as a member of the Salt Lake City Police Department," [Police Chief] Brown wrote to Payne in a scathing letter notifying him of his termination.
Ouch!!
Incidentally about 3 weeks ago I spoke with a local Police Officer and his opinion was that Wubbels's manager is the one who should have been arrested. I guess he immediately saw the look on my face b/c he then said "...or we can agree to disagree!" I went .
According to a report I saw when you are a commercial truck driver you have agreed to be drug tested. I Don't agree with the officer, but she should have remained calm. Her behavior was upsetting the patients in the ED. Yelling did not help the situation.
Apparently she spent 20 minutes in the police car, and got 500,000.
According to a report I saw when you are a commercial truck driver you have agreed to be drug tested. I Don't agree with the officer, but she should have remained calm. Her behavior was upsetting the patients in the ED. Yelling did not help the situation.
Apparently she spent 20 minutes in the police car, and got 500,000.
Nope. State law does not supersede federal law and the Supreme Court ruled in 2016 that you cannot get blood without consent...period. The person who was upsetting the ED patients was the out of control cop. She did remain calm, very very calm and professional. Until he grabbed her, used a control hold on her which is extremely painful, threatened her and shoved her out of the ED. If she had done anything wrong she would have been reprimanded and I doubt the courts would have awarded damages.
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When cops earn back the respect they have squandered by protecting their culture of brutality, racism and murder with impunity, maybe then I'll believe they only want the best and brightest amongst their ranks. It's clear that today they are not recruiting from the top of the barrel.