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Newlywed couple: Officer blocked us from ER during bride's stroke
WRCB-TV ^ | 2010.06.19 | Callie Starnes & WRCB Staff

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: badcopnodonut; bullies; cops; donutwatch; jackbootedthugs; jbt; jbts; lping; pigs; policestate; redlights; scumwithbadges; streetganginblue; stroke
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To: republicangel

In Marianna, Arkansas, years ago, lived a man named “Doc Flowers”. He was the coroner. He also droved an ambulance. My uncle told me one time he was rushing a heart attack victim to the hospital in Memphis and ran some red lights. A cop followed them inside and, not knowing which person was driving, grabbed the heart attack victim by the arm and swung him around. Doc Flowers decked the cop. No charges were filed.


21 posted on 06/20/2010 2:40:39 PM PDT by Terry Mross (I weep as America gasps for breath.)
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To: B-Chan

Betcha they had shaved heads. Not that I’m sayn...
Seriously, I understand how tough it is on the job. I am in the fire service, fire police. I stand out on the freeway and try to get you to slow down or detour and you yell and curse to me that “I GOTTA GO THAT WAY!!!!” t
when there is 4” all over the road and engines and trucks blocking every square inch of the road..then you speed up to go around my barricades!
It’s just that some of the guys on the job take their power a little too far. God keep them safe but give SOME a little more sense.


22 posted on 06/20/2010 2:42:15 PM PDT by Shady (No more LAWS based on LIES!!!!)
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To: COBOL2Java

Looks like FreeRepublic was the beta test for that Internet kill switch!


23 posted on 06/20/2010 2:44:31 PM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: calex59

I could not get on for a hr or so... Is big brother throwing trial balloons?


24 posted on 06/20/2010 2:57:43 PM PDT by crazydad
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To: B-Chan

Total A$$hat


25 posted on 06/20/2010 2:58:16 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Liberals are educated above their level of intelligence.. Thanks Sr. Angelica)
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To: Gigantor

A. The paramedics in the ambulance aren’t going to do anything to treat a stroke.

B. Calling 911 and getting an ambulance takes time. A stroke is one of the few times when minutes count.

C. The cop should have backed off once it was clear there was a medical emergency ( guy carrying his wife into the ER ). He can site the guy later.

Speaking as an ER doc who was an EMS medical director in a good sized city.


26 posted on 06/20/2010 3:09:00 PM PDT by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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To: B-Chan

The husband was arrested outside of her hospital room two days later.

Five counts.. resisting arrest, failure to obey an officer of the law, etc.

Disgusting.


27 posted on 06/20/2010 3:11:20 PM PDT by earlJam
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To: COBOL2Java

LOL! Oh, he wishes!


28 posted on 06/20/2010 3:14:35 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Gigantor

In many cases that is not the answer.

Where time is critical, it can take twice as long to get there waiting for an ambulance. I live 10 minutes to the nearest hospital. It would take at least 10 minutes and likely much longer for an ambulance to get here just to start the trip to the hospital.


29 posted on 06/20/2010 3:14:53 PM PDT by DB
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To: earlJam

Lawsuit against the idiot cop I hope.


30 posted on 06/20/2010 3:16:43 PM PDT by JEC ((Pray for ALL our troops))
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To: Kozak
Stroke treatment: Immediate treatment
In hospital, brain scans are needed to find out what type of stroke you've had.

If a blood clot is the cause, ‘clot busting’ medication may be used to dissolve the clot, but this must be given within three hours of the stroke. Anti-clotting medication such as aspirin may also be given to stop the stroke from getting worse.
Anti-clotting medication is not given in strokes caused by haemorrhaging because it will make the bleeding worse.

31 posted on 06/20/2010 3:17:25 PM PDT by Bronzy
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To: B-Chan

More and more unbelievable stuff seems to happen everyday now.


32 posted on 06/20/2010 3:17:39 PM PDT by valkyry1
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To: B-Chan
This sounds like State Trooper "Officer Neckvein" in Oklahoma who thought it more important to stop an ambulance than to "git out the way". Remember him beating up on the driver?

Kind of wondered if he'd gotten a new job, and lo and behold this happens.

Gotta' be the guy or his twin brother!

33 posted on 06/20/2010 3:18:12 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: earlJam

He should have decked that cop.

I have a feeling Officer Friendly is about to find out what it feels like to stare down the barrel of a multimillion-dollar personal injury lawsuit. I hope they ruin him. I hope they take his house, his car, his pension, and his collection of SS memorabilia. I hope his kids have to go to work in a coal mine in order to keep bread on the table down at the homeless shelter.

Someone has got to show these apes that you can’t get away with murder just because you have a blue shirt and a badge.


34 posted on 06/20/2010 3:18:48 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: Bronzy

I know. I treat them all the time.


35 posted on 06/20/2010 3:19:34 PM PDT by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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To: krb

Try reading my post. I said the cop was wrong for stopping them from getting into the ER.


36 posted on 06/20/2010 3:22:02 PM PDT by Gigantor (Freedom carries with it responsibility. Too many want freedom FROM responsibility...)
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To: DB

If you’re just ten minutes away from the ER then of course logic would dictate heading out on your own.


37 posted on 06/20/2010 3:22:57 PM PDT by Gigantor (Freedom carries with it responsibility. Too many want freedom FROM responsibility...)
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To: Redbob
Agreed.


38 posted on 06/20/2010 3:23:39 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: Kozak

Be prepared to waste lots of time if you speed and / or blow red lights. If that’s acceptable, then OK.


39 posted on 06/20/2010 3:24:08 PM PDT by Gigantor (Freedom carries with it responsibility. Too many want freedom FROM responsibility...)
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To: Gigantor
It is an emergency? Call an ambulance!

The woman was possibly having a stroke. Minutes count. The ambulance would have to be dispatched, drive to the home, and then take her to the hospital. With him taking her, it was "drive to the hospital". Depending on exactly how far the ambulance was from the house, we could be talking quite a few minutes.

40 posted on 06/20/2010 3:26:52 PM PDT by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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