"Cysts, on the walls of her lungs. Why, we couldn't even go through Denver it's so high."
Posted on 06/16/2009 1:10:08 PM PDT by Eddings
OKLAHOMA CITY — The paramedic who scuffled with an Oklahoma highway police officer while a patient waited inside the ambulance says the trooper should lose his badge.
Maurice White Jr. said Tuesday on the CBS "Early Show" that trooper Daniel Martin was in a state of rage when he stopped his ambulance and totally disregarded the patient's safety.
Martin stopped the ambulance May 24 for failing to yield.
White says he got out of the ambulance to tell the trooper they were taking a patient to the hospital. The argument quickly escalated into a scuffle and Martin put White in a choke hold.
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anyway, i have yet to see the video in it's entirety.
I have not followed this, but I thought I heard that the ambulance did not have lights or siren going (so could be stopped for traffic violations).
Failure to yield? I would have thought an ambulance had the right of way.
then the obvious question is why didn’t they? they had someone in the back. must not have been very critical.
Don't get in the way of a donut run.
Maybe someone who knows this story can help?
Can’t we all just get along punk?
If the officer was in such a hurry, why stop to hassle another person on call?
There are some FR threads on it. But searching keyword “donutwatch” and “doyouknowwhoiam” or “respectmyauthority” might bring back too many unrelated threads.
that officer should absolutely lose his job. He is menace with uncontrollable urges that will put lives in danger.
He is a blight to the LEO community and cannot be trusted to carry out his duties with integrity.
“Officer, if your “emergency” were more important than MY emergency, you wouldn’t be standing here peeing on my shoes!”
OHP needs to fire an officer and the county needs to get a new DA. Publicly stating I’d be proud to have EMT Maurice White stand up for me. We should stand up for him.
"Cysts, on the walls of her lungs. Why, we couldn't even go through Denver it's so high."
Anger management class.Give him another chance.
agreed
The PC crowd is doing all it can to railroad the officer by using one frame of the officer holding the neck of the attendant. The media is using the cellphone video rather than the patrol car video because it is limited to the actions around the ambulance and not the whole scene. Checking the whole scene proves the officer did the right thing. But police rarely get favorable attention from the media. And this officer is on leave because his family is being threatened by brave liberals (no doubt) and he wants to be at home to provide protection.
Have you seen the full video?. You comment is full of crap.
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