Posted on 10/31/2017 7:49:27 PM PDT by conservative98
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah nurse who was arrested for refusing to let a police officer draw blood from an unconscious patient settled Tuesday with Salt Lake City and the university that runs the hospital for $500,000.
SEE ALSO Nurse dragged out of hospital, arrested for doing her job Nurse dragged out of hospital, arrested for doing her job Nurse Alex Wubbels and her lawyer, Karra Porter, announced the move nearly two months after they released police body-camera video showing Detective Jeff Payne handcuffing Wubbels. The footage drew widespread attention online amid the national debate about police use of force.
The settlement covers all possible defendants in a lawsuit, including individual police officers, university police and hospital security guards. The payout will be divided among the city and the University of Utah.
Wubbels plans to use part of the money to fund legal help for others trying to get similar body-camera video. She said that in cases like hers, video is essential to being heard and believed.
“We all deserve to know the truth, and the truth comes when you see the actual raw footage, and that’s what happened in my case,” she said. “No matter how truthful I was in telling my story, it was nothing compared to what people saw and the visceral reaction people experienced when watching the footage of the experience I went through.”
She said she also plans to give a portion of the $500,000 to a nurse’s union and help lead a campaign to stop physical and verbal abuse of nurses on the job.
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Brown said in a disciplinary letter that he was “deeply troubled” by Payne’s conduct, which he said brought “significant disrepute” on the department.
Payne is appealing that decision, saying the firing was an unfair reaction to the negative publicity.
That was fast.
How long did she fight to get the video from the body cameras?
This is good. While the lack of rule of law is present in many aspects of our society, righteous people are brutalized on a daily basis by our Stasi police force.
Payne is appealing the decision, saying that the firing was an unfair (hit to his pension).
The cop needs prison for kidnapping and a whole host of other charges. Life in prison would help cure out of control cops.
Why wasn’t he arrested for that felony? It was committed in the presence of other officers who had a duty to arrest him on the spot.
I didn’t understand that either. I think the university crew was cowed by him, or afraid they’d be shot.
Cops screw up and taxpayers foot the bill.
Just a “hit” to the pension? They should have voided the entire retirement package.
Hope so.
Wow, good haul! She should give the person who took the video a cut!
“Retirement, here I come!”
She reads off a checklist of 3 conditions that weren’t meant. Cop didn’t care about that.
https://youtu.be/yia7qs01z1M?t=5m11s
That award was way, way to high.
And what do you want to bet they will re-elect the same people who hired this guy?
Until they start holding their elected officials responsible they will keep paying through the nose and they will deserve to do so.
You misspelled ‘low’, I hope unintentionally.
Why?
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