Posted on 06/20/2010 12:23:49 AM PDT by B-Chan
A patient, believed to be having a stroke, says an officer with the Chattanooga Police Department blocked her husband from taking her to the emergency room at Erlanger Wednesday night.
Aline Wright is a cancer survivor, amputee and a newlywed. Wednesday night she began to show signs she was having a stroke.
"I started feeling some left arm numbness and a facial droop," said Aline.
"It appeared to me that I was probably having a stroke."
That's when her husband of four days, Jesse Wright, put her in the car and rushed her to the Erlanger Medical Center. Wright knows an emergency. He is a nurse technician at Erlanger.
On the way to the hospital, Aline says Jesse treated two red lights like stop signs. He would stop and then proceed if no traffic was coming. After Jesse ran the second stop light one block from Erlanger, the officer turned on the cruiser's blue lights and followed the couple into the emergency room parking lot.
"At that point we figured because we were so close to Erlanger emergency department that the police would be aware that's where we were going," said Aline.
According to Aline, the officer caught up with the couple as they were attempting to enter the emergency room at Erlanger Medical Center. Aline says her husband was carrying her in his arms because she could not walk. According to Aline, the officer blocked the entrance and demanded answers for running the red lights.
"He picks me up in his arms and the officer continues to block the way into the emergency room," said Aline.
"He's standing between Jesse and I, and the emergency room doors."
Aline says eventually the officer allowed them to enter the hospital, but says he didn't stop there.
Aline tells Channel 3 Eyewitness News that once the couple was placed in a hospital room, the officer attempted to enter their room to arrest Jesse for evading the police.
The guy was a paramedic, his wife a nurse. He drives ambulances for a living. He didn't just blow through the red lights, he stopped and then proceeded to drive through after checking for oncoming traffic. Nothing he did was unsafe or reckless, and if he didn't want to risk his wife's life on waiting for an ambulance, well then, I suspect he knows much better than you what to do in that particular situation.
Chattanooga Officer Jim Daves. Go to the Chattanooga web site and let the mayor and city council know what you think of their idiotic police force.
Actually her husband WAS a paramedic, and she was a nurse. They both worked for the hospital where he took her. BTW, the hospital has suspended him due to the felony charges against him. Understand, he has not been convicted, and if there is any justice left in world he won't be, but he has been suspended none the less. Insanity to the tenth power.
One wonders how society has functioned till now with so many idiots w/ no common sense. I suspect it will shortly cease to function. We are quickly approaching critical mass. Once @ss hats outnumber reasonable sane people things will go downhill quickly.
I was going to blast you for your post, but I see others have done so...
Having recognized my father was having a stroke, I put him in the car and drove him to the ER. Way faster even though the fire station was close. I would have passed the EMT’s on the way to the house, and I would have already been half way to the hospital at the point I would have passed them.
So I didn’t bother calling them.
This thread is solid evidence that orderly society has ceased to exist.
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I’m glad you were faster than the ambulance - but you wouldn’t have been if you were detained by the police for going thru red lights and/or speeding.
That would be a different story.
Going thru red lights and / or speeding in a private vehicle is not reckless? Oooookay.
I once drove my wife to the ER. She was in labor, the cord had prolapsed, and two midwives were in the back with her trying to keep her and my daughter alive. There were stretches of open highway where I definitely exceeded one hundred miles per hour, and I ran every single red light after looking both ways to make sure no one else was going to enter the intersection.
Are you saying I should have slowed down and come to a full stop at every intersection? Because if I had my spouse would not have lived.
Are you saying I was “reckless”?
Hmmm. Incomplete information. No time of day. No info on the vehicle, type, condition of tires. No information about road conditions, or weather. I could go on, but this is as much time I’ll waste on the question.
She was having a stroke. Seconds count. Obviously, his wife was more important to him than worrying about waiting on an ambulance.
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