Not just internet but mainstream news/
With pay???? This nut is toast, and the nurse should sue as she has a solid case.
Then, what grounds are there to arrest a nurse for not siphoning out blood from the trucker, who laid unconscious and in critical condition?
It seems the police were hoping to see if the trucker had alcohol or drugs in his system to absolve them of their creation/instigation of the wreak.
Bastards.
This isn't the first time this Detective has had problems...
I saw the video, and it was an egregious abuse of power. He should be charged with assault.
I normally support LEO’s but this turkey not only should be fired but charged with assault.
Is this America?
Good for the nurse — who did nothing wrong.
Prayers for the trucker. Any reports on how he is doing? That ought to have been everyone’s first concer.
hopefully, the second person suspended was the uniformed officer who didn’t stop the detective from going psycho
battery at a minimum and if he moved her to a different location than it should be kidnapping also.
The jackboot lickers will not be happy.
There are plenty of people supporting this officer in facebook comments.
What is the nurse’s theory? That she had the right to sequester the perpetrator? Like a sanctuary in a church?
I think those cops could have dragged the perp out of the hospital bed and tossed him in the back of a cruiser if they wanted to. She had no more right to protect him than if he had run into a message parlor.
Why did she think she had jurisdiction over the perp? Since when do medical persons have any right at all to resist orders from the police?
Speaking as a nurse, I don’t do anything intrusive to a patient without a doctors written order except in an emergency situation relating to immediate life threatening events. ie cpr, defib, etc...
Even giving narcan or insulin requires a doctors order. And I wouldn’t draw blood without a written order from a doctor.
If the detective had gotten a Doctor to agree and issue the order - no problem. Otherwise it’s my job to stabilize a patient until the doctor diagnoses and issues care orders. Based on the doctors diagnoses and orders, I then work out my nursing care plan. If the patient is conscious I must obtain consent from the patient to carry out the doctors orders.They can refuse any procedure, and I note the patient refuses AMA, against medical advice. If the patient cannot respond to care requests, I then note it in the patients chart as unresponsive or not understanding and can then do the procedure/order under the doctors direction. You own your body. Unless your are declared incompetent ( in Florida we call it The Baker Act) or there is a court order, you control what happens to it. Soapbox relinquished.
Ass cops.
The city is now trying to minimize their exposure to a civil rights lawsuit that is sure to be filed. Problem is, the city should not have waited a month and a half to take action; and only did so because of the publicity.
Thank god. The cop would have gotten away with it otherwise.