Posted on 09/27/2017 6:50:59 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS
Excerpt Only due to AP.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A hospital patient who a Utah nurse said she was protecting when she refused to allow police to draw his blood has died.
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Praise for Nurse Alex Wubbels.
She displayed sound patient advocacy.
Methinks the Police department is gonna get sued..................
That cop would be hired in an instant by the Berkeley police. He would be deployed every time a decent conservative tried to speak.
Very sad situation, and prayers for his family.
The behavior of the PD in the hospital will not help them in court.
“Patient at center of Utah nurse’s high-profile arrest dies”
Wasn’t there a big argument here over whether she had actually been arrested?
The Waco PD and their FR fascists would be overjoyed to have him as well.
“Wasn’t there a big argument here over whether she had actually been arrested?”
Well, she was cuffed, and dragged out of the hospital, so if she wasn’t actually arrested, it’s worse than if she had.
Oh no.
She wasn’t arrested.
She was abducted.
What a mess. It doesn’t sound like whatever the police did hindered his care, so why will they be in trouble? I do understand their insistence of a blood sample in the early hours of the accident. They didn’t know the second driver would die and would have needed to know if he was under the influence of anything to try to determine if he could have been at fault. This was all handled badly. Prayers for his family. It does sound like he was destined to pass away from his injuries.
How widespread is the policy of letting police into a patient care setting and allowing them to draw blood? Does anyone know? It would seem to be a liability issue.
Any physician or nurse hired by a hospital has to go through an intensive screening process. Credentials are checked, felony records and even credit rating. Yet they allow any LEO in to perform a medical procedure?
Could very well have died from infection which is common in burn cases. In no way shape or manner should a cop be let into intensive care. The nurse was on sound medical and legal grounds.
Notice how this pig is being defended by his union and the slow walk the pig chief is taking to slap his hand, cops covering for cops. Always the case and why you can’t ever trust them.
It’s strange how not a single bad word is said about the guy who intentionally rammed his truck.
He was in pretty bad shape before they got him in the door. The matter of his blood being drawn or not drawn had nothing to do with his death.
“Could very well have died from infection which is common in burn cases. In no way shape or manner should a cop be let into intensive care. The nurse was on sound medical and legal grounds.
Notice how this pig is being defended by his union and the slow walk the pig chief is taking to slap his hand, cops covering for cops. Always the case and why you can’t ever trust them”
Am still waiting on anything about the moslem cop in Minnesota who murdered the Australian woman.
There is a wrongful death suit waiting to happen and justifiably so, otherwise Officer Payne would not have been so insistent that a blood sample be drawn from an unconscious and seriously injured individual with no consent, in my opinion. The wrong done to the deceased has nothing to do with whether or not the illegal attempt at having his blood drawn by police while unconscious contributed to his death.
I watched video of the accident. The truck driver was in no way responsible for the crash. It was a four-lane highway, and the truck driver was in opposing traffic in the far right lane of that opposing traffic. The perp's vehicle swerved hard left (as in something broke, a tire went down, or he was PITTed out) went across the median (IIRC, it was a turn lane-type median, no barrier) and slammed into the front of the semi causing a huge fireball.
The semi-driver had less than a second to react to the impending head-on.
Federal law for CDLs states that any CDL driver, while on duty as a CDL driver, who is involved in a fatality, regardless of who is at fault, must be tested within two hours of the accident for alcohol, and within 32 hours for controlled substances. However, that law also states that the company the driver works for is to provide for the testing, not law enforcement. It further states that if the tests cannot be done for some reason within those very specific time constraints, that they are not to be done at all, and a written explanation is to be sent by the company the driver worked for to the Dept. of Transportation explaining the reason for not testing.
The police had absolutely no authority to draw blood in this case.
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