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 the case of a stroke it is the seconds and minutes that count...in the time he would have waited for an ambulance to arrive and they finally got there and did vitals etc...she could have lost a lot of her brain.
My father had a massive stroke at 37 yrs of age and lost half of his brain due to lack of oxygen and slow paramedics taking 17 mins to get to the house.
That's the dumbest remark in support of CPL's that I have ever heard in my life!
Got the wife in my arms, pull out my handgun and blast everyone that gets in my way in my attempt to get into the ER.......
I'm nominating you for MORON of the Month..........
Most of the common sense got flushed down a large black hole in a special D.C. bathroom during the last SElection.
God forbid cops use their common sense.
Eventually? How much time is that?
Arriving by ambulance puts a person first in line at the emergency room. Paramedics can administer oxygen, and other drugs such as magnesium sulfate which can be helpful whether the stroke is from bleeding or a blockage.
The indignant letters written by the citizens are priceless. Thanks for the link.
That doesn’t work anymore. Judges have started ordering juries to find defendants guilty, and throwing jurors in the can for contempt of court if they don’t.
We had a case in my AO recently where a cop stopped a woman in labor as she drove herself to the hospital. Ticketed her for doing 45 in a 35. And then said turd-with-a-badge wouldn’t escort her to the hospital.
When it all went to court, said turd-with-a-badge brought two other turds-with-a-badge to stare at her and her husband in order to try to intimidate. The turd-in-black robes found then her guilty.
What country am I living in? I don’t recognize it anymore. But I do know this.
I don’t trust anyone connected to the ‘legal’ system. They are pi$$ing all over what this nation is about, and getting away with it because too many people say we must ‘obey’ people like Obama, Reid, Pelosi, and Schumer.
Its gotta change, or we are going to turn into a totalitarian state. All because of the fiction that we must obey authority. Yes, Murder, rape, robbery are bad, and must be punished. But when a guy is charged for trying to get his wife help for a stroke... well then, maybe its time to start thinking about how broken the third branch of government is, and how it needs to be reined in.
Sick em Fido.
Take care Bro.
Actually, there are reports that these blokes, our leaders the last 110 years . . .
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2
plan to make the police the prosecutor, judge and executioner—shooting ALL law breakers dead on the spot.
. . . except, maybe . . . for the elites themselves . . . and there was purportedly some discussion if that included for the first offense of a parking ticket.
If my wife was dying and some idiot (badge or not) was deliberately stopping me from getting her to an ER, you’d better believe I’d end his interference by whatever means I had to. My wife’s life is worth the lives of a dozen cops.
I’d go to jail gladly.
Not happily married, are you? Some d!p$h!t gets in the way of me getting medical help for my wife, that d!p$h!t is going to die, and I’ll deal with the fallout later. And if the d!p$h!t happens to be wearing tin, then he gets piped to his final resting place by the Emerald Society, and the Mayor and the media get to say how good a father the d!p$h!t was.
But my wife will get the help she needs. I will pay the price needed. Guess you don’t get that.
And just as an after-thought, it is a felony in every state to prevent medical services from being rendered. This ‘cop’ should be charged with it, but because the system has decided police are above the law, he gets away with it. Well, thats a violation of the 14th.
UnConstitutional. But that doesn’t matter, so long as you get the legal system gets its cut, eh?
should not be a police officer any longer.
Why are cops killing dogs and hurting civilians so often?
This is probably a person who thinks “The Authorities” will be there to protect him and those he loves personally 24-7.
I’m generally a law and order guy. In other words I support the police. But this cop was an ass. Once he realized he was dealing with a medical emergency he should have switched to help mode. Apparently he was inccapable of doing that. He should be fired because his judgement and temperament are serously lacking. He will make more mistakes if he remains a policeman.
They used to kill black people the way they kill dogs now.
And this sort of behavior is nothing new. Harassing, beating, and killing people is a treasured part of the cop mentality. People who don't enjoy that sort of thing don't become cops. They've always treated "civilians" like crap. It's just that everybody has a camera phone and internet service now, and they can't hush it up any more.
Note: Cops are civilians. Unless a person is subject to the UCMJ, he or she is a civilian.
This cop was way out of line. But I reject the notion that all cops “are about their egos”. I reject the notion that most cops “are about thier egos”. I accept the notion that a small percent of policemen/women “are about their egos”.
The truth is that the only stories we generally hear about the police are negative stories. Whereas there are hundreds of thousands of serving policemen in this country who can discern the difference between good and bad people. They treat each accordingly and are mainly interested in getting home to their families unharmed or worse at the end of their shift.
That would seem to neutralize the "red-light rangers" like this jackass...
I’m not a fan of blanket statements, but I think your comment is more common than people think. I was once married to a police officer (long, long time ago). He would say that as a cop, he could raise he11 and get away with it. That’s what the “thin blue line” meant to him.
Most cops (and cop’s spouses) go to their graves with perfect driving records. It’s not because they are better drivers. Immunity is quite a perk of the job, but most cops expect it as professional courtesy.
I'd like to know what kind of training he received about such situations. Maybe some other people need some hurt as well.
My ex-wife had an allergy to aspirin that went undetected for a years. One night she took some asprin for a minor ache and started to develop symptoms of an allergic reaction. i put into my truck and we went to the Base Er (we retired off base). I got her to the Er just as her heart stopped.
After everything got settled down and my nerves were under control the Er Doc told me that if I had called 911 and waited for an ambulance it would have been too late.
The right answer in a case like this/ The one that gets the person to the ER in time. Tickets, etc can be settled later a life can't.
I agree heartily.
And I hope you’ll reconsider your monarchist views in light of this clear example of the absolute, God-sanctioned requirement to sometimes take a stand as a rugged individualist. :-)
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