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Health/Medical Title: Utah nurse screams 'help me' as she's cuffed by cop for refusing to draw blood on unconscious patient, video shows Nurse arrested for refusing to draw unconscious man's blood A Utah nurse screamed help me after a cop handcuffed her for refusing to draw blood on an unconscious patient July 26, police body camera footage showed. The video showed University of Utah Hospital nurse Alex Wubbels, an Alpine skier who participated in the 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympic games, calmly explaining to Salt Lake Detective Jeff Payne that she could not draw blood from a patient who had been injured in a car accident, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. Wubbels told Payne the patient was required to give consent for a blood sample or be under arrest. Otherwise, she said police needed a warrant. Payne threatened to imprison Wubbels if he was not given the blood sample, according to the video. I either go away with blood in vials or body in tow, Payne is shown saying. Wubbels, who was on the phone with her supervisor, explained the situation to the supervisor, who agreed with the nurse and reportedly told the cop, sir, youre making a huge mistake because youre threatening a nurse. Disturbing video shows Utah nurse dragged away by cop for refusing to draw unconscious patients blood https://t.co/y6ZjfDHeyp pic.twitter.com/k3SrUsSjqh Raw Story (@RawStory) September 1, 2017 Upon hearing that, Payne announced Wubbels was under arrest and physically moved her outside the hospital while she screamed. Wubbels yelled, Help! Stop! I did nothing wrong! while being handcuffed. Payne was attempting to get a blood sample from a patient who was burned after being involved in a head-on crash with a pick-up truck driver that was fleeing police, the Washington Post reported. The driver died in the incident. Wubbels was not charged and police have started an internal investigation. Payne initially remained on duty although he was suspended from blood-draw duties. Later on Friday Utah police announced that he had been put on paid administrative leave. Police Chief Mike Brown said in a statement that his department will comply with the investigation into Payne. Salt Lake County's Unified Police Department will run the criminal probe into Payne's actions. Brown and the mayor of Salt Lake City have apologized for the incident and changed their policies to mirror hospital protocols. Christina Judd, a spokesperson for the Salt Lake City Police, said the department was alarmed by what they witnessed in the video. Judd said the department was working to investigate what went wrong and is seeking to repair the unfortunate rift it has caused. Wubbels said she had been told of other hospital employees being harassed by officers and this footage proved their claim. She has not pressed charges yet but would consider it if police did not change their ways. I cant sit on this video and not attempt to speak out both to re-educate and inform, Wubbels told The Salt Lake Tribune. Police departments need to be having conversations about what is appropriate intervention. The hospital supported Wubbels actions and said it would consider pressing charges. "University of Utah Health supports Nurse Wubbles and her decision to focus first and foremost on the care and well-being of her patient, said Suzanne Winchester, the hospital's media relations manager. She followed procedures and protocols in this matter and was acting in her patients best interest. We have worked with our law enforcement partners on this issue to ensure an appropriate process for moving forward. Poster Comment: I was unclear if the cop was expecting the nurse or staff to make the blood draw and they were refusing, or if the cop wanted to draw it himself and the staff was preventing him from doing so. This article clearly states the cop was expecting the staff to do it, in which case the nurse was arrested for refusing to do something the cop wanted. It seems the nurse, so far, is being nice in not suing the cop & department. That's characteristic of a true public servant. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 4.
#3. To: misterwhite (#0)
BTW, if the cop arrested the nurse because she would not do the blood draw, and not because she was preventing the cop from doing the draw, then any law about implied consent and obstruction of justice is a non-issue. The issue instead is one of whether a cop can force a citizen to assist him in conducting a bodily search of another person, and arrest that person if s/he refuses. And especially in the case of a blood draw, there's no way in hell any court will give rubber stamp approval as it's a medical procedure that comes with risk, even if small, to both drawee and drawer. The nurse's supervisor can be heard telling this cop over the phone that he was making a huge mistake. If it was because he felt he could force the nurse to do a blood draw, then the mistake was at minimum, enormously huge.
I wouldn't worry too much. A cop could beat a bushel of puppies to death in front of an elementary school on main street or he could rape that same nurse and then shoot her on her way home from work and he still wouldn't face the kind of investigation they're doing now over this incident. But cross the hospital mafia? Holy crap. This is why the mayor and police leadership all apologized promptly, this is why there's a criminal probe of the cop's action and a likelihood of a penalty, more so than if he shot some assorted persons of color. The costumed clowns have a mafia and it has rules. The cop clowns do not mess with the hospital clowns. Ever. They value the hospital services too much. Here's the exchange. Another small win for cop body cameras to catch the cops doing Bad Stuff like this.
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