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2nd Utah police officer put on administrative duty over nurse arrest
FOX NEWS ^ | Sept, 2, 2017 | fox news

Posted on 09/02/2017 5:11:07 PM PDT by Morgana

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1 posted on 09/02/2017 5:11:07 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

It’s on video! Fire the jackboot thug!


2 posted on 09/02/2017 5:13:00 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.)
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To: Morgana

They should fire the fat lollypop campus cops who stood around and did nothing.


3 posted on 09/02/2017 5:14:52 PM PDT by PAR35
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From the video it seems half the police dept. needs an overhaul.


4 posted on 09/02/2017 5:16:39 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana
Man this nurse is gonna get paid...
5 posted on 09/02/2017 5:23:30 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're right, you're wrong - that's the end of the argument.)
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To: Terry Mross


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6 posted on 09/02/2017 5:25:35 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: Morgana

I read another version, that the cop is a phlebotomist who does blood draws on DUI suspects, that he HIMSELF wanted to do the blood draw, and the nurse wouldn’t allow him access to the patient.

Further that the patient was not only unconscious, but burned, and therefore at very high risk of infection, and obviously the police officer is not trained in infection control the way a medical professional is, and should be no where near that patient.

IMO, the doctor in charge should have stepped up as well, administration should have been called, and the hospital attorney. The nurse shouldn’t have to face down,by herself, a police officer violating not only hospital policy but the law, and endangering a patient.


7 posted on 09/02/2017 5:26:04 PM PDT by heartwood (If you're looking for a </sarc tag>, you just saw it.)
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To: Morgana

The lawsuits are going to fly on this one. The PD will pay just to get rid of the adverse publicity and the two police officers will either be fired on placed out of the public eye for a long time I suspect.


8 posted on 09/02/2017 5:29:17 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: heartwood

Cops cannot draw blood in a hospital unless authorized by the hospital. They don’t have medical privileges there. Just because you are certified at something doesn’t mean you get to do it anywhere you’d like. Cops have limits, regardless of what their fragile and primal egos think.


9 posted on 09/02/2017 5:30:21 PM PDT by CodeToad (Victorious warriors WIN first, then go to war! Go TRUMP!!!)
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To: heartwood

“...dministration should have been called...”

The nurse had her supervisor/administrator on speakerphone in conversation with the detective when the detective went nutso and arrested the nurse. I’ve also read the nurse was the Charge Nurse.


10 posted on 09/02/2017 5:31:50 PM PDT by moovova
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To: so_real

I don’t know what that has to do with the article. But it sure strikes me as a good means of justice.


11 posted on 09/02/2017 5:35:06 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
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To: Morgana

Nah, they need to fire many more people.

I hope they play that vid 1,000 times.


12 posted on 09/02/2017 5:37:30 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: CodeToad

I wish the nurse could sue the cops personally instead of the PD where the citizens are the ones paying. Take their pensions and a portion of future earnings. That will hit bad cops where it hurts.


13 posted on 09/02/2017 5:38:38 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: CodeToad; heartwood; Chode

From what I’ve read this dude was not even the person they were chasing in the first place. He was just hit by accident. Can’t for the life of me figure why they wanted his blood so badly.

This I will say. This nurse worked the burn unit. Sure hope none of these cops end up in her unit for a work or other related injury. Sure hope ever nurse and doctor in this unit have long memories of this.


14 posted on 09/02/2017 5:39:58 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: heartwood
I read another version, that the cop is a phlebotomist who does blood draws on DUI suspects, that he HIMSELF wanted to do the blood draw, and the nurse wouldn’t allow him access to the patient. Further that the patient was not only unconscious, but burned, and therefore at very high risk of infection, and obviously the police officer is not trained in infection control the way a medical professional is, and should be no where near that patient. IMO, the doctor in charge should have stepped up as well, administration should have been called, and the hospital attorney. The nurse shouldn’t have to face down,by herself, a police officer violating not only hospital policy but the law, and endangering a patient.

That's what I had read as well. I have done tons of these draws for police in hospitals and the paperwork comes first.

15 posted on 09/02/2017 5:41:27 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: heartwood

Doesn’t matter if he was an MD. The patient has to consent to treatment. The entire matter is ludicris. Police know when they can and when they can’t get blood. all they needed was an arrest warrant. Probably lacking detail(s).

It doesn’t matter who the patient is. Police have no right to order medical personnel without a Court Order. This Nurse should make $millions. The cop should be fired and any Supervising Officer that was present.


16 posted on 09/02/2017 5:41:40 PM PDT by DrDude (Clinton/Awan/Huma/Obama all are tied together in Treason)
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To: heartwood
administration should have been called,

Administration was called and told the officer that he was wrong.

That seemed to have been what sent him off.

17 posted on 09/02/2017 5:48:07 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: heartwood

I read the blood they wanted was from a tucker who got hit by someone the cops were chasing. Wtf?


18 posted on 09/02/2017 5:48:26 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative.)
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To: MtnClimber
I wish the nurse could sue the cops personally instead of the PD where the citizens are the ones paying. Take their pensions and a portion of future earnings. That will hit bad cops where it hurts.

She can sue him personally. That was not simple negligence, but a criminal assault and battery and kidnapping under color of authority.

She needs to press charges and then sue him for everything he is worth.

The City will be sued too and they will pay compensatory damages, but the officer could get hit with punitive damages.

19 posted on 09/02/2017 5:50:31 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: heartwood

It seems like if the cop had any guts at all he would have just walked in and drawn the blood. Nobody would have physically stopped him. Instead he attacked an innocent female. 100% Gutless.


20 posted on 09/02/2017 5:51:51 PM PDT by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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