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.
Yes I did. She shouldn't have been yelling! That DID NOT help the situation at all.
She was under some pretty serious stress, being bullied by a thug cop & not being protected by the hospital officers she specifically went to for help.
By definition, nurses aren't felons & don't know how the system works- so an arrest is a really big deal. I don't think casting stones in hindsight is appropriate.
Yes I did. She shouldn't have been yelling! That DID NOT help the situation at all.
You picked an interesting thread to resurrect. Welcome to AN.
Well, if you ever get wrongfully arrested and manhandled I guess you can lead by example and be calm and deferential. I have never been arrested and don't know how I would react, but I have placed thousands under arrest (previous career) and it's not uncommon that arrestees cause a ruckus. Some shifts I feared I might suffer permanent hearing loss, and I'm only half joking.
In this particular case the person who got arrested hadn't actually committed a crime and the officer in my opinion behaved egregiously. I interpret the nurse's screams as panic, she probably couldn't believe what was happening to her. It was likely quite a humiliating experience to be dragged away like that with coworkers as witnesses and she might have been afraid of what was going to happen next. So while it's probably correct that her screaming didn't help the situation, I don't think it's difficult to understand why a person might scream in that situation. What happened in that ER should never have happened, and the nurse was in my opinion blameless.
when someone is wronged, as this nurse was, I want them to make a ruckus. The ED patients are not her concern at this point. angel, you are coming off the martyr, not a good role for a nurse.
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Yes I did. She shouldn't have been yelling! That DID NOT help the situation at all.