Posted on 10/31/2017 7:49:27 PM PDT by conservative98
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah nurse who was arrested for refusing to let a police officer draw blood from an unconscious patient settled Tuesday with Salt Lake City and the university that runs the hospital for $500,000.
SEE ALSO Nurse dragged out of hospital, arrested for doing her job Nurse dragged out of hospital, arrested for doing her job Nurse Alex Wubbels and her lawyer, Karra Porter, announced the move nearly two months after they released police body-camera video showing Detective Jeff Payne handcuffing Wubbels. The footage drew widespread attention online amid the national debate about police use of force.
The settlement covers all possible defendants in a lawsuit, including individual police officers, university police and hospital security guards. The payout will be divided among the city and the University of Utah.
Wubbels plans to use part of the money to fund legal help for others trying to get similar body-camera video. She said that in cases like hers, video is essential to being heard and believed.
“We all deserve to know the truth, and the truth comes when you see the actual raw footage, and that’s what happened in my case,” she said. “No matter how truthful I was in telling my story, it was nothing compared to what people saw and the visceral reaction people experienced when watching the footage of the experience I went through.”
She said she also plans to give a portion of the $500,000 to a nurse’s union and help lead a campaign to stop physical and verbal abuse of nurses on the job.
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No, the reward was right where it should be.
Salt Lake City police are the arrogant, corrupt dregs. Sad that the tax payers are made to make her whole. She deserves every penny.
Pssst, that would be the cop who arrested her. ;)
Pssst, that would be the cop who arrested her. ;)
“That award was way, way to high“
WRONG. It was way too low. It needs to hurt the city and every citizen in it. This is the only way that this crap will stop.
Not enough money for what she was put through. And the cops should be in jail. She was assaulted under color of authority and should get double what was settled on.
Well said.
Like Hillary, he doesn't care that what he did was wrong, just that he got caught.
Innocent people paying innocent people. She should get his house and anything else he owns.
She settled for far too little. She should have gotten a million.
Actually she was very very kind to the city. She was in line for $3 million or more. Not saying it is right but that is about what you get out of cluster f*c*s like this. She had either a bad attorney or has a heart of gold and did not want to stick it to the taxpayers.
That is exactly why the cop should lose his pension and everything else that he has on top of the city/university payout.
I’m thinking 2-4 Million might rattle some cages...
I agree, but why do you go into nursing? To help people and not hurt them. I suspect she didn’t want to hurt taxpayers. I would have gone for $5 million but I want to teach lessons.
>> This is good.
Not really. Firing the thug was enough.
Okay, give her 10 Gs, her lawyers 5.
But $500k? That’s an excessive settlement the unrepresented taxpayers are forced to fund.
You’re absolutely correct, and your antagonists are having an absentminded moment.
The settlement amount should have been higher. Only adequate numbers of attentive influential taxpayers can put a stop to it, and that’s the way to get their attention. Remember the women who was burned by coffee from McDonald’s? She had third degree burns, and the propaganda outlets omitted that fact.
The way to avoid tax hikes after such incidents is to stop electing the crooks who commission other crooks and who refuse to train them properly. Constituents should also consider outlawing the lobby organizations that give excessive legal powers and legislative influence to left-leaning local governments.
Not enough.
So is the Lieutenant who was on the radio directing Payne. He got busted from LT. to a patrol officer for his role in this mess. He too should have been fired. Seems to me that the upper management at the SLCPD need some "restructuring" of their levels too. I am surprised at this small award to Wubbels. The effect of a larger settlement would have been to push the SLC administration to take actions on the Chief and his upper echelon subordinates which is where this kind of crap almost always starts.
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