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).
Don't get in the way of a donut run.
Basically this is occuring in rural Oklahoma outside of Tulsa and nowhere. It's an 8 county area consisting of The Creek Nation reservation and various governmental bodies with overlapping jurisdictions.
The story is that the Creek Nation ambulance was taking a patient to the community hospital. There was little or no traffic on the highway, few driveways or civilian entrances along the way, and NO REASON AT ALL to turn on the lights and siren.
A state trooper responding to a call was barreling along the highway and came upon an ambulance just behind an automobile. He had his lights and siren on. The car pulled to the side to let the trooper pass, as did the ambulance, but ahead of the car.
The ambulance requires 22% more stop time than any vehicle of the same weight and configuration AND it was far larger than the car. No question the ambulance could not have just pulled off behind the car. However, we are talking about 6 seconds of travel time from the moment the patrol car was clearly in the view of the car ahead (and the ambulance) and the time the trooper got even with the ambulance ~ by that time the ambulance was off on the side of the road.
For a variety of unexplained reasons the trooper decided to write up a ticket on the ambulance driver and to choke the EMT.
We have a pool going ~ will the trooper be canned, or will he be promoted.
It's dollars to doughnuts!
Dashcam video pretty much proves the entire point - State Trooper came up on the back end of the ambulance, the ambulance moved to the side when there wasn't a vehicle on the easement, trooper continued, then returned to ‘Write a ticket.’
Thankfully, there wasn't any gay pride sticker on the ambulance, or this might have been a hate crime the liberals love to tout about.
FOX had the trooper’s dash cam video over the weekend. In my opinion that cop should be fired immedialtely. He pulled over an ambulance carrying what they thought was a heart attack victim for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle! Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t an ambulance carryling a patient the REAL emergency vehicle???? Where the hell was the cop going in such a damned hurry? Obviously no place important since he had so much time to abuse these two EMT’s who were trying to care for their patient! All the cop cared about was that HE was being disrespected by the EMT’s. He didn’t give one care about the man in the ambulance who could have been dying while all this was going on. The guy is a disgrace and threat to public safety as long as he sits with a gun behind a badge.