Video shows Utah nurse screaming, being dragged into police car after refusing to let officer take blood from unconscious victim A nurse says she was assaulted and illegally arrested by a Salt Lake City police detective for following a hospital policy that does not allow blood draws from unconscious patients. Footage from University Hospital and officer body cameras shows Detective Jeff Payne and nurse Alex Wubbels in a standoff over whether the policeman should be allowed to get a blood sample from a patient who had been injured in a July 26 collision in northern Utah that left another driver dead. Wubbels says blood cannot be taken from an unconscious patient unless the patient is under arrest, unless there is a warrant allowing the draw or unless the patient consents. The detective acknowledges in the footage that none of those requirements is in place, but he insists that he has the authority to obtain the draw, according to the footage. At one point, Payne threatens to take Wubbels to jail if he doesn’t get the sample, and he accuses her of interfering with a criminal case. “I either go away with blood in vials or body in tow,” Payne says. After Wubbels consults with several hospital officials and repeats the policy, Payne tells her she is under arrest and grabs her, pulling her arms behind her back and handcuffing her. The footage shows the detective dragging Wubbels out of the hospital and putting her inside a patrol car as she screams, “Help! Help! Somebody help me! Stop! Stop! I did nothing wrong!” A University of Utah police officer and Department of Public Safety officers, who provide security for the hospital, were present at time of the arrest and did not intervene. 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. Parts of the footage were shown Thursday at a news conference at the office of Karra Porter, a Salt Lake City attorney representing Wubbels. Salt Lake police Sgt. Brandon Shearer said the department started an internal investigation, which is ongoing, in response to the incident. Payne was suspended from the department’s blood-draw program — where officers are trained as phlebotomists so they can get blood samples — but he remains on duty with the Police Department, Shearer said. The department also has held training for the officers in the program as a result of the incident, he said. http://www.sltrib.com/pb/news/2017/...hat-bars-taking-blood-from-unconscious-victim
The cop is an asshole and needs to be arrested by Internal Affairs. Oh man , I wish I was her litigation attorney.
Just another moronic bully in a cop uniform.......where do we find these clowns???? Let's hope this asshat gets fired and takes his act to Walmart......
This is fucking ridiculous. The nurse was following protocol. There are Hippa laws and if she didn't follow them she could lose her job. She was also protecting a patient who could not protect himself. Good Nurse. The cop was trying to abuse his power and got called on it. Then illegally arrested and dragged a nurse because of his hurt ego. Fuck this guy. Fuck Jeff Payne
My dad once told me that in a given school yard, half the bullies will grow up to be criminals and half of them will grow up to be cops. Obviously overstating it for the sake of a joke, but I think it's fair to say that a job like police officer pulls in both people who want to make a positive difference and people with a bully's nature. More of the former than the latter, but if you want to push people around with some legal mandate, police officer is a good option.
A conversation with my 4-year old daughter this morning. One of our local town police officers (town of 4,000 people in Mount Vernon, Iowa) stopped his vehicle at the cross walk to let my daughter and I cross on our way to her school. Me: Wave to the police man Daughter: What is he doing? (waves) Me: He is being nice and letting us cross the street. D: is he a bad policeman? Me: No, Mount Vernon police are nice. D: but the policeman on tv are bad. Definitely not how I viewed police when I was little. I'm pretty sure I thought they were cool or something. Times have changed.
I'm usually pretty pro police. There are certainly some bad cops, but I still think there are far more good than bad. But I hope she sues the living shit out of that department, and that cop loses his job, or gets demoted to desk duty.
I don't have a 4 year degree, and despite what many here think, I would certainly consider myself educated. It's also completely unnecessary for a police officer to have a 4 year degree
