re: Officer Who Arrested Utah Nurse In Viral Video Is Now Under Criminal Investigation

The officer has technically committed the offense of misdemeanor Battery. She was not injured.

According to a source that I read, the officer was ordered to make the arrest from a superior.

I don't see where this is a million dollar type of case.

Keep in mind that police departments and hospitals are very interconnected. I don't see either agency wanting to create bad blood. If the nurse/hospital does, they will have to deal with a hostile police department in the future.

I also doubt the nurse would want to ruin an officer's career over a misunderstanding. At least I hope not.

This is being blown way out of proportion especially since there wasn't a racial component here.

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Of course, the charge would have been tossed but the point is that cops that don't know shite about the law shouldn't be in uniform.

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FIFY. Then again, we wouldn't have many cops though.

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Officer Who Arrested Utah Nurse In Viral Video Is Now Under Criminal Investigation by SmackoverHawg
What's the law? Did he act professionally? No. But there was an accident with a fatality involved. The longer the patient goes without the lab draw, the longer drugs/alcohol have to metabolize out of their system. I've seen it done here on unconscious pt's. No issues from nursing or administration. I wasn't directly involved, but I have wondered what the exact protocol is.

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You fell down the same hole I did in a poli board thread. Took me 5-6 posts before somebody told me the patient was NOT at fault. Apparently just some poor bastard who got plowed into.

I saw the video and NEVER thought anything other than the patient must have been the drunk. Can't wrap my head around it being the other way around, and that cop being that pissed.

Law in Utah is that the LEO needs probable cause to draw blood from a person that isnt or cant consent even in fatal accident. The officer said multiple times on the body cam video that he did not have PC.

He got mad that the nurse challenged him and took it out on her. He should lose his job.

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Yeah. He was NOT a suspect in the wreck. The person who caused the wreck died.

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Makes me wonder if the cop was being so persistent to have blood drawn hoping they'd find something in the truck drivers system so the police dept could say their high speed chase wasn't the complete cause of the wreck.

Actually typing thing out I realize that this probably isn't a very original thought.

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also doubt the nurse would want to ruin an officer's career

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He should have no career.

Any officer that wrongly deprives someone of their freedom,regardless of how long, should not be allowed to have a badge and gun.

He is a piece of shite but does the nurse really deserve millions ?

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Is there a law that requires medical personell to do their bidding even in cases where they have the right to obtain a blood sample?

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Was always just a courtesy to the officers. Their card they could play is to just leave them there for the ER to deal with. "Wanna go to jail or the hospital?" Many people are given that option. Then you have a drunken waste of time on your hands. Then they are the hospitals responsibility if they wonder off.


ETA. That obviously was not done in cases of true injury or fatality accidents. Just all of your run of the mill DUIs. Passed out at a stop sign. Swerved into a ditch. You don't help those cops they will help themselves to a cup of coffee and haul arse.

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Even if he wanted to arrest her it wasn't necessary to do it violently. All he had to do was inform her she was under arrest and to put her hands behind her back to get cuffed.

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He can just arrest her because he wants to