Posted on 09/05/2017 7:40:11 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The Salt Lake City police detective who arrested nurse Alex Wubbels for not allowing police to draw blood from an unconscious patient has been fired from his part-time paramedic job with Gold Cross Ambulance Service. Payne was placed on paid administrative leave from his full-time job as an officer with the Salt Lake City Police Department after a video of the arrest went viral. In a separate video recorded after the arrest, Payne asked another officer how the incident would affect his part-time position with the ambulance company. Payne bragged that he could retaliate against the hospital by only bringing them “transients,” adding that he would “take good patients elsewhere.” Gold Cross posted a statement on Facebook on Tuesday that said they took Payne’s “inappropriate remarks regarding patient transports seriously” and announced Payne’s termination was “effective immediately.”
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It seems to me they know a lawsuit is coming. They’re trying to shift blame and/or add to a contributory negligence percentage.
Now, they’ll likely face TWO lawsuits. At least.
The thing that keeps being left out of this story is that the police were in a pursuit of another car and a police car hit this elderly man who was not involved. This mad was burned in the accident and was unconscious at the hospital.
What I think the LEO was trying to do is get a blood sample and spike it to fail to make the accident LEO, maybe himself, the victim in the crash and to frame the crash victim.
Punishing someone before a trial is not a good thing for a society.
Let's hope he keeps his mouth running this way when he's introducing himself to his cellmate.
Absolutely. Logic dictates that. Why push so far for a blood draw from an innocent victim of a road chase where perp and cops crashed into the victim? Unless it was to deflect blame away from the cops. They were pushing the nurse to disobey hospital rules and procedures, and pushed way too hard. Guilty cop.
Obvious that he is not qualified to provide adequate medical care for humans.
Now what about the whole “enforcing the law with the full weight and authority of a gun and the badge that the people gave you to wear”?
So his private sector employer fires him within a few days while his government employer gives him a paid vacation.
You are the 1st person I know of to ask the very important question!
A better translation: the bets are all in place.
Post 35, way to go, Utah hospital.
This dude is a real piece of sht! Messing with patient needs for his
own fcked up cop ego trip. I hope an example is made of him. He represents the exact profile most of us fear about the force, ie a bunch of vindictive a$$ holes who like to threaten people and bully with their badge
Thank you. And let me once again proclaim the grace and kind hearts of my French II and French III teachers. Ladies, wherever you are, be blessed! LOL
(I had to take the internet translation of “Les jeux sont fait”)
They say it was to avoid a lawsuit by the dying victim’s family! In other words they were fishing out crap on citizens to look like heros! Pieces of garbage
I agree. These dirty cops likely wanted to spike the blood with something to make the truck driver look bad.
+100000000
Nah... He’ll pack up and move to another city and get hired by another department within a few months. Crap like this dies out quickly, and cops support each other. Besides, public memory is notoriously short for things like this.
Good. He should also be booted from the PD as well
Yep, he should have waited for a her trial before attempting to punish her.
Or are you referring ONLY to the very legal action from his employers for his saying that he was going to act inappropriately on the job?
Does it all go one way with you?
“The cops were desperate to get that blood sample. His boss pressured him to get it. Why? The answer to that question will explain a lot.”
The trucker has a potential lawsuit for damages and personal injury caused by the police chase.
If the cops can test his blood and find alcohol or drugs in the sample they can use that to claim it’s the trucker’s fault.
Without it they can’t use that defense and if found liable will have to fork out big bucks.
Now they’ll have to fork out big bucks for that and the nurse’s suit if she files one.
“And what if the best care or the quickest care would be at this hospital?”
My wife went to The University of Utah. I was in SLC in April and took a drive up and through the campus. The UofU Hospital is a new facility. It is probably the premier hospital in Salt Lake County.
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