[Dallas59]

Video at site.

[Big_Monkey]

This may or may not be related, but I bet if you forced police to take steroid tests (which are seldom ever screened for in standard urine analysis tests), I bet a surprising percentage would fail.

And, it's only a hypothesis, but I wager that "roid rage" accounts for at least some of the police brutality claims that are seen from time to time.

[vetvetdoug]

Diversity allows one to say and do all they want toward LE and then whip out the race card. Yes, the officer could have been cooler but a ratchet mouthed diverse individual sometimes is more than one can handle.

[OneWingedShark]

Hm, seems like a clear case of assault to me.

Does it seem like the government’s enforcers (police) are acting a little more... aggressively, this year?

What, if any, is the link to politics and who is in office?

[driftdiver]

The most likely outcome is they’ll arrest the kid for making the video tape.

[DariusBane]

Apparently this was a traffic stop. They pulled over the ambulance, that was on an emergency run with a patient in the back because it did not yield to the police cars on a call. I don’t know which law supersedes, but to pull over an EMT on a something like this... That EMT might be clearing your airway tomorrow after the Cop has a traffic accident or worse gets shot or something. It sure seems that the traffic stop was unnecessary. What happened to the call the Trooper was going on that was so important? I just don’t get why we empower government employees to be thuggish and brutal. The next story at the site was that the Tulsa Police were planning one of those huge traffic blitzes to calm down bad drivers. “Warning books put in the trunk” and drivers license checkpoints. Why do “you people” want this? Policeman per 1000 in this country is 2.77.
# 1 Montserrat: 7.81501 per 1,000 people
# 2 Mauritius: 7.28432 per 1,000 people
# 3 Dominica: 6.40311 per 1,000 people
# 4 Italy: 5.55565 per 1,000 people
# 5 Hong Kong: 4.79374 per 1,000 people
# 6 Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 4.7868 per 1,000 people
# 7 Portugal: 4.64878 per 1,000 people
# 8 Kazakhstan: 4.54998 per 1,000 people
# 9 Latvia: 4.51878 per 1,000 people
# 10 Czech Republic: 4.47613 per 1,000 people
# 11 Slovakia: 3.72086 per 1,000 people
# 12 Lithuania: 3.53934 per 1,000 people
# 13 Malaysia: 3.43936 per 1,000 people
# 14 Thailand: 3.35665 per 1,000 people
# 15 Kyrgyzstan: 3.25049 per 1,000 people
# 16 Slovenia: 3.14023 per 1,000 people
# 17 Moldova: 3.01481 per 1,000 people
# 18 Germany: 2.91153 per 1,000 people
# 19 Ireland: 2.8989 per 1,000 people
# 20 Hungary: 2.88528 per 1,000 people
# 21 Spain: 2.86696 per 1,000 people
# 22 South Africa: 2.7668 per 1,000 people
# 23 Estonia: 2.72543 per 1,000 people
# 24 Poland: 2.61367 per 1,000 people
# 25 Jamaica: 2.57054 per 1,000 people
# 26 Georgia: 2.46034 per 1,000 people
# 27 Norway: 2.42412 per 1,000 people
# 28 Turkey: 2.38057 per 1,000 people
# 29 Iceland: 2.24441 per 1,000 people
# 30 Romania: 2.18728 per 1,000 people
# 31 Colombia: 2.12215 per 1,000 people
# 32 Australia: 2.09293 per 1,000 people
# 33 France: 2.049 per 1,000 people
# 34 United Kingdom: 2.04871 per 1,000 people
# 35 Switzerland: 1.93617 per 1,000 people
# 36 Netherlands: 1.92448 per 1,000 people
# 37 Denmark: 1.91716 per 1,000 people
# 38 Chile: 1.85583 per 1,000 people
# 39 Korea, South: 1.85461 per 1,000 people
# 40 Japan: 1.81103 per 1,000 people
# 41 Sri Lanka: 1.72484 per 1,000 people
# 42 Canada: 1.70767 per 1,000 people
# 43 Zimbabwe: 1.68859 per 1,000 people
# 44 Finland: 1.56347 per 1,000 people
# 45 Zambia: 1.13674 per 1,000 people
# 46 Papua New Guinea: 0.985032 per 1,000 people
# 47 India: 0.956207 per 1,000 people
# 48 Costa Rica: 0.370767 per 1,000 people

Why do “you people” want an aggressive and armed government monitoring your activities? I don’t understand. You have to be a physical coward to demand the government provide you with a zero risk environment.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Let me get this straight, the trooper was in such a hurry to get to his call that he had to STOP the ambulance and harass the paramedics for not yielding?

Does anyone besides me see the failure in logic in this?

[Uri’el-2012]

Lets go to the Law.

Which has the "right of way"
between an ambulance with lights on and OKHP with lights on ?

Clearly someone broke the law.

I'll bet the "life saving" ambulance has the "right of way"

Perhaps I'm wrong.

[chuckles]

Lets all calm down till we find out the facts. The filmer was connected to the person in the ambulance.

Remember the guy in California that was kicked in the head while laying on the ground about a week or so ago? Turns out he DID have a gun and the cop saw it. If you watch the film closely you can see his hand go underneath his body while the officer was trying to handcuff him. The copter cam couldn't see what the officer saw. This was on the cop channel last night. How many other outlets carried it? You are left with the image of a cop kicking a guy while on the ground and the investigation is just forgotten about.

We have no idea what happened here except what the filmer wanted you to see.

[mikeus_maximus]

Since when is wrapping your hands around someone’s neck a proper restraint technique? I don’t give a flip how beligerent this guy was or wasn’t off camera. Too many cops seem to be former jocks who never amounted to much and go around with a chip on their shoulders and macho complex, looking for the slightest sign of personal disrespect.

[TheOldLady]

Am I the only one who watched the whole video? Didn’t anybody else see that the EMT shoved the LEO first, and that’s what ratcheted up the confrontation?

I don’t care who you are, you don’t shove an LEO when he’s writing, lecturing, or otherwise trying to get your attention.

Thank God that the patient was not in a life-threatening situation and that she was treated and released.

[Gay State Conservative]

From just reading this piece (haven’t seen the video...just the picture above) I think I’d side with the paramedic.

[Gay State Conservative]

Just saw the film...although it doesn't seem to give the full story I think I still side with the paramedic.He wanted to get his patient to the hospital.That's what they're there for.From what I see this is more likely to be a cop with a bad attitude than a paramedic with one.

[MrEdd]

The YouTube age is proving to be hard times for JBTs everywhere.

[abb]

http://www.examiner.com/x-6121-Oklahoma-Crime-Examiner~y2009m6d13-Oklahoma-Highway-Patrol-finally-releases-video-of-trooper-attack-on-paramedic
Oklahoma Highway Patrol finally releases video of trooper attack on paramedic