“1. Do you have a source for this?
2. Why didn’t the cop take the blood then?”
1. It’s in the article.
2. Maybe he did, after the nurse was arrested. The article doesn’t say.
He is licensed for it but can no more take it than the man on the moon.
This patient was under the control of the hospital.
This jack-ass came in and tried to strong-arm a blood sample from a nurse. Defend him all you want.
He is out and the county just provided early retirement for a nurse.
Footage from University Hospital and officer body cameras shows Detective Jeff Payne and nurse Alex Wubbels in a standoff over whether the policeman should be allowed to get a blood sample from a patient....
This is all of the relevant texts I see in the article. this does not mean the cop can draw the blood from the veins or artery. This means the cop may receive a blood sample or the nurse or the hospital will send it to the police lab. Jails have nurses on duty and some have doctors. They do blood draws in the facilities as needed.
Cops ARE NOT trained to draw blood. i am familiar with dozens of correctional, police, and sheriff’s jurisdictions. i realize that is not all of them.
Please provide a source as you said that cops are licensed and trained to draw blood and i will consider myself educated.
So instead of him drawing the blood himself he decided to arrest the nurse. Waitring for an explanation of this remarkable occurrence.