They didn't tell you to almost crash your car into the an emergency helicopter that was to take your daughter to the hospital
That's their story.
Who knows what the true story is.
If you don't want a paniced parent on the scene, don't call the guy and tell him, "it doesn't look good".
Too bad his name isn't Patrick Kennedy.
You are assuming facts not in evidence. He didn't necessarily "almost crash into" a helicopter, that's just what the pissed off cop said, and there's no evidence that the helicopter in question was there to evac his daughter.
I drove an ambulance for a living in the NYC area in the 70s. There are a lot of "professional" cops and "emergency workers" who are way less about being professional and way more about being "in charge." We called them "Napoleons." It sounds to me like this is the case here. Yeah the father was out of line but I bet the cop was all about "I'm in charge here! You do what I say!"
In NY in the 70s the brand new good Samaritan law said that the senior medical person on the scene of a medical emergency has authority over all other personnel there, police, fire, ambulance, etc.. The father in question is listed as an anesthesiologist, which is an MD. In NY, at least under the law at the time I worked there, he could have told them to go take a flying leap and been within his rights. In fact he could have had them arrested for interfering with him.
I had just such a confrontation with a "town clown" cop in the town where I grew up. In addition to working the professional ambulance I also was one of the crew chiefs for the local volunteer ambulance. We got a call about a woman down in the small grocery store in "the village" section of town. We were there within 5 minutes and I started to assess the patient. She was out cold and I couldn't revive her, though her vitals were fine. The only cop on the scene told me to grab her legs and we'd drag her outside to get her out of the way. I refused and told him I was in charge of the patient and to stay out of my way. I had EMT training and I knew that he had failed his last advanced lifesaving course because I'd helped to teach it. I also knew about an incident at a local horse riding competition where he and some other local cops had moved a teen aged girl after she was injured (but conscious) without securing her neck, which was broken, and she died. This was before the ambulance arrived on scene. I wasn't on that crew and it all got hushed up, but it really pissed me off.
The cop in this incident freaked after I "refused to follow his orders" and was going to arrest me. I stood up (I'm bigger than he is) and quietly, nose to nose, cited chapter and verse of the NY State law that said if he interfered with me I'd have him arrested and charged and make sure that he was prosecuted (which I could do in both that town and county as I had the connections). He stormed off and we took care of the patient (she'd had a reaction to medication and we needed to get her to the hospital before they could diagnose and properly treat her, but she ended up being fine).
Two hours later I got a call from the town chief of police ready to read me the riot act because of the story his officer had told him. I calmly explained the real situation to him and he ended up agreeing that I had done the only thing I could (particularly after I reminded him of the horse riding incident). The cop didn't get fired, but he was taken off of regular patrol for 6 months and put on traffic.
Napoleons are almost as bad as over eager volunteers. We said they had "voly fever." It's frightening when you have a Napoleon with voly fever. It's even worse when you get them on a Friday night, worse still if it's a Friday when the welfare checks come out and worst of all when that night is a full moon. I usually scheduled time off when all of those came together.
temporary insanity.
I would not trust that if the FL Highway partol said it.
FL highway patrol is notorious for being egomaniac control freaks (they resent the fact they are called glorified speeding ticket patrol)
The FL highway patrol "exagerates".
That's one assumption.
Another is that the cop on the scene arrested him before finding out who he was, and is now stretching the truth rather than admit he overreacted.
Yeah well I almost had sex with Britney Spears. When did we surrender our rights to see our family to government bureaucrats?
Almost. How much damage did the helicopter receive from Almost?