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.
In Marianna, Arkansas, years ago, lived a man named “Doc Flowers”. He was the coroner. He also droved an ambulance. My uncle told me one time he was rushing a heart attack victim to the hospital in Memphis and ran some red lights. A cop followed them inside and, not knowing which person was driving, grabbed the heart attack victim by the arm and swung him around. Doc Flowers decked the cop. No charges were filed.
Betcha they had shaved heads. Not that I’m sayn...
Seriously, I understand how tough it is on the job. I am in the fire service, fire police. I stand out on the freeway and try to get you to slow down or detour and you yell and curse to me that “I GOTTA GO THAT WAY!!!!” t
when there is 4” all over the road and engines and trucks blocking every square inch of the road..then you speed up to go around my barricades!
It’s just that some of the guys on the job take their power a little too far. God keep them safe but give SOME a little more sense.
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I could not get on for a hr or so... Is big brother throwing trial balloons?
Total A$$hat
A. The paramedics in the ambulance aren’t going to do anything to treat a stroke.
B. Calling 911 and getting an ambulance takes time. A stroke is one of the few times when minutes count.
C. The cop should have backed off once it was clear there was a medical emergency ( guy carrying his wife into the ER ). He can site the guy later.
Speaking as an ER doc who was an EMS medical director in a good sized city.
The husband was arrested outside of her hospital room two days later.
Five counts.. resisting arrest, failure to obey an officer of the law, etc.
Disgusting.
LOL! Oh, he wishes!
In many cases that is not the answer.
Where time is critical, it can take twice as long to get there waiting for an ambulance. I live 10 minutes to the nearest hospital. It would take at least 10 minutes and likely much longer for an ambulance to get here just to start the trip to the hospital.
Lawsuit against the idiot cop I hope.
If a blood clot is the cause, ‘clot busting’ medication may be used to dissolve the clot, but this must be given within three hours of the stroke. Anti-clotting medication such as aspirin may also be given to stop the stroke from getting worse.
Anti-clotting medication is not given in strokes caused by haemorrhaging because it will make the bleeding worse.
More and more unbelievable stuff seems to happen everyday now.
Kind of wondered if he'd gotten a new job, and lo and behold this happens.
Gotta' be the guy or his twin brother!
He should have decked that cop.
I have a feeling Officer Friendly is about to find out what it feels like to stare down the barrel of a multimillion-dollar personal injury lawsuit. I hope they ruin him. I hope they take his house, his car, his pension, and his collection of SS memorabilia. I hope his kids have to go to work in a coal mine in order to keep bread on the table down at the homeless shelter.
Someone has got to show these apes that you can’t get away with murder just because you have a blue shirt and a badge.
I know. I treat them all the time.
Try reading my post. I said the cop was wrong for stopping them from getting into the ER.
If you’re just ten minutes away from the ER then of course logic would dictate heading out on your own.
Be prepared to waste lots of time if you speed and / or blow red lights. If that’s acceptable, then OK.
The woman was possibly having a stroke. Minutes count. The ambulance would have to be dispatched, drive to the home, and then take her to the hospital. With him taking her, it was "drive to the hospital". Depending on exactly how far the ambulance was from the house, we could be talking quite a few minutes.
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