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'Somebody Help Me!' Nurse Arrested After Refusing to Draw Blood
Time Magazine ^ | 9/1/2018 | AP

Posted on 09/01/2017 10:26:41 AM PDT by varyouga

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To: Moonman62

You may want to revise that. The mayor and police chief have apologized, two officers have been placed on leave, and there is going to be a criminal investigation.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/2017/09/01/salt-lake-city-police-apologize-for-officer-handcuffing-nurse-who-refused-blood-draw-of-unconscious-patient/


241 posted on 09/01/2017 7:51:47 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Ken H

Gettin’ better & better.

Hopefully, this matter will go quietly away...after Nurse Wubbels receives her MUY GRANDE check.


242 posted on 09/01/2017 8:16:56 PM PDT by moovova
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To: ifinnegan

Huh? You’re delusional


243 posted on 09/01/2017 8:30:26 PM PDT by bjcoop
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To: af_vet_rr
He was desperate to exert his authority, not to get the blood sample.

... hat man was desperate for that blood sample ..."

244 posted on 09/01/2017 8:32:58 PM PDT by Thud
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To: ifinnegan

The nurse was right. She did nothing wrong.


245 posted on 09/01/2017 8:46:40 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: polishprince

“Truth be told if that was me I would have decked the guy cop or noit.”

Emotional reaction, consistent with liberalism and leftism.

I understand it’s human nature and we all can feel that way, but that us exactly what conservatism and bring civilized us about - to rise above or baser natures.


246 posted on 09/01/2017 8:51:04 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Salvation

and because she was arrested, her name will forever be entered into the national criminal database.

If cops want the respect of the citizenry, they need to be able to distinguish between street thugs who might present a real threat, and a nurse doing her job.

I feel so badly for this woman, and all good, hardworking citizens who are subject to this kind of police state thuggery.


247 posted on 09/01/2017 8:51:30 PM PDT by Kalamata (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: ifinnegan

The nurse was commended on her courage for standing up for the man’s rights [turns out the trucker’s also a reserve officer in another department and was never a suspect] ... “Jr” here who was abusing his authority is in time out ... his department’s apologized ...and the nurse’s been asked by Jr’s own department to participate in training officers for handling such contingencies in the future.


248 posted on 09/01/2017 9:02:58 PM PDT by piasa
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To: moovova

They did not notice.


249 posted on 09/01/2017 9:10:29 PM PDT by sport
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To: ifinnegan

“Truth be told if that was me I would have decked the guy cop or noit.”

Emotional reaction, consistent with liberalism and leftism.

I understand it’s human nature and we all can feel that way, but that us exactly what conservatism and bring civilized us about - to rise above or baser natures.


Self-defense is obviously a conservative principle. Surrendering to thugs is what you advocate.


250 posted on 09/01/2017 9:14:58 PM PDT by TTFX
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To: zeugma

No idea what led up to the moment, but if he couldn’t show probable cause and get a warrant then he shouldn’t be asking to begin with.,,guess that is what I was trying to infer


251 posted on 09/01/2017 9:17:49 PM PDT by reed13k
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To: Vendome

An interesting take on this by a poster on another website:

Truck driver was innocent and a victim of a police chase.

CDL drivers live and die by their blood alcohol/drug content when involved in accidents.

Cops wanted blood to find out if the guy was drunk or on drugs to use to blackmail him if he decides to sue the department for being injured as a result of their high speed chase.

Cop at hospital was there to make sure a blood sample was taken to cover their assess.


252 posted on 09/01/2017 9:22:15 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Moonman62

The officer at the ER was truly requesting the sample for the victim’s own protection, not to prosecute him.


Lie of the year.


253 posted on 09/01/2017 9:42:17 PM PDT by TTFX
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To: moovova

The truth is she was following the law, and LEOs were not. Not only was she following the law but she was also following hospital policy that was based on an agreement hospital had with LE Agency.

She was very polite and very professional in her interaction with him until he grabbed her. She never did refuse his request, she only pointed out to him what the agreement between the hospital and LEO was in such circumstances.

The law the LEO was trying to use was changed in Utah in 2007 (not recently as some have claimed), implied consent was no longer the law.

The three conditions for LE to get blood drawn at that hospital and in order to comply with the law- LE must have at least one of the three: Patient under arrest, warrant, patient consent. None of those conditions were met.


254 posted on 09/01/2017 9:44:03 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: Salvation

If she had not made an effort to protect her patient’s care and rights she would herself be in violation of the law.

LE was not only trying to violate the law, he was trying to bully her into breaking the law regarding her duty to her patients and trying to bully her into violating hospital policy.

People said she should have called the charge nurse, in an updated article they said she was the charge nurse. She also had her supervisor on speaker phone and was doing as her supervisor was directing her to do. The head of the burn ward was also in the room, and LE didn’t listen to him either.

She did everything she was supposed to do. She did it all in a very polite and professional way.


255 posted on 09/01/2017 9:54:51 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: af_vet_rr
 
 
One more thing - if there was no express consent by the patient or a legit warrant, the blood draw would be inadmissible for investigative purposes anyway. Which makes me really wonder what in the wide world of sports was that guy thinking, trying to accomplish.
 
 

256 posted on 09/01/2017 10:04:47 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: lapsus calami

That is it.

What was he after and why?

He now has a whole tube of toothpaste to get back in the tube.


257 posted on 09/01/2017 10:08:22 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Kalamata
 
 
and because she was arrested, her name will forever be entered into the national criminal database.
 
If she had been taken to the jail and formally booked in, yeah. Cuffed, detained on-scene for a while and then released, nope.
 
 

258 posted on 09/01/2017 10:14:36 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: lapsus calami

True


259 posted on 09/01/2017 10:17:04 PM PDT by Kalamata (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: Rebelbase

Bingo


260 posted on 09/01/2017 10:27:25 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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