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Originally Posted by DVaut1
Replace all Confederate statues with the nurse imo, she should be a national hero. Puts her foot down with Officer Rage Hulk, is correct, and is protecting an unconscious dude who she easily could have just been like yeah whatever, do what you want to the guy. The headline isn't that she's doing her job, she's literally going above and beyond to protect her patient. Her job is to take blood, not fight with the cops, but she fought with the cops anyway. Kudos to that lady.
This story is actually way more nuts than even the WaPo documents.
I think this sums it up well:
http://reason.com/blog/2017/09/01/ev...arrest-of-this
Here's the background before the hospital. Key point: Utah cops are not supposed to engage in high speed chases, it's against policy
http://fox13now.com/2017/07/27/polic...ar-wellsville/
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The crash occurred after Utah Highway Patrol received numerous 911 calls reporting an erratic driver, and troopers attempted a traffic stop on a black Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck.
The driver of the pickup truck fled from troopers, and during the ensuing pursuit the driver veered into the oncoming lanes and struck a semi-truck head on.
The driver of the semi-truck is the guy that the cops are trying to illegally get blood drawn from. He was never suspected of any crime at all. He was just a bystander who got hit by the suspected criminal/erratic driver guy.
This is important. So, the story, then:
1. the hulk cop who eventually arrested the nurse was just involved in a high speed chase (against department policy -- they're not supposed to engage in high speed chases due to the danger to innocents)
2. the suspect is killed
3. the guy who is unconscious (more on him in a moment) is an innocent bystander driver who got caught up in the chaos of the high speed pursuit the cops are not supposed to do.
That's why this bystander guy is of such interest to the cops. The hulk cop who is trying to draw blood from this unconscious guy is basically involved in a huge, longshot CYA/fishing expedition to find something in this guy's blood (alcohol, weed, prescription drugs whatever) so he can say the unconscious guy was drunk/high and not take the blame for engaging in a high speed chase. Because these kinds of things (bystanders getting hurt) is exactly why the cops aren't supposed to do high speed chases.
What a ****ing incredible miscarriage of justice. The cops weren't even trying to overzealously pursue a criminal and violate his Constitutional rights. They were overzealously trying to pin a crime on a ****ing bystander to find some plausible excuse for their bad behavior. In their torrent of bad ****ing decisions, they make another victim out of the nurse. What a ****show.
Postscript: the unconscious innocent bystander guy is himself a cop