Posted on 09/05/2017 9:36:38 PM PDT by Ken H
Taking charge is a subtle art, no doubt!
I've bought Chicago cops, and seen staggering drunk off duty cops dragged away from the accident by their buddies, with no charges in the local paper. EVERYONE knows this, and The Blue Line refuses to admit it.
Ask any civilian, and he'll have a story of some Blue Bro who shouldn't be allowed out with a paint ball gun, let alone a Glock, with 6 mags, and a Taser.
As an extra, consider that the Charlottesville PD, Portland PD, Berkley PD are so political that they refuse to enforce the law under orders from the Socialist mayors. If a War starts, are they going to stand for the Communists, or the Constitution? A lot of us have our doubts.
I didn't know that. That certainly changes things. In that case, they probably did what they needed to. Its a shame that it had to come to that.
The policy will change when the idiot donut commando is fired. I predict November.
In Texas, illegal arrest (which this clearly was on the face of it, as she was required to do what she did by Federal law) results in the officer being charged with felony assault, assault under color of law. I believe the law is the same in Utah, where this happened.
All this idiot officer would have had to do to avoid this is get a warrant over the phone. Problem is, with what he had, no un-crooked judge would ever give him one.
The officer should count himself lucky that he wasn’t in Texas. Texas law allows a citizen to resist an illegal arrest by any means necessary up to and including deadly force. I can provide cites of the Texas penal code as necessary.
Being LE was your fault not theirs.
I did a surgery internship at Cooper Hospital decades ago. Camden New Jersey. It never happened to me but me Chief Resident told me the night before he had been pulled over going way fast in his Porsche. He told the officer he was a surgery resident at Cooper, they guy let him go. He told me if I ever got stopped to just tell them I was a surgery resident and they would let me off. Stands to reason. In the 12 months I was there we worked on several cops in the ER. Since then I always figured medical folks and cops have a sort of “unwritten professional courtesy” but I guess those days are ending. But I sure have a lot of stories from that 12 months.
You should seek help for your woman hating . Bitter divorce?
Does any body know what the hell actually happened there? I admit I didn’t waste time watching the video. But the more I read about this the case is screwiness than hell. The unconscious guy was a driver? Why wouldn’t she do a blood alcohol? There are some big missing pieces to this story.
Hahahahahaha.
I’d be embarrassed if one of the women in my family acted in such a hysterical manner. They were taught to give the officer the benefit of the doubt and respect. So far, 50-60 years later they all haven’t had to act like that banshee.
You are an embarrassment to this forum cop hater. You should leave.
Is your name Kaepernick? F’n cop hatin POS.
Calm down Rambo. It’s late and you’re hysterical. Be well.
Well, so far the cops involved have gotten a paid vacation, and it has been months since the incident.
I don't think timely punishment is going to happen, so even by your reasoning this step is appropriate.
Well, so far the cops involved have gotten a paid vacation, and it has been months since the incident.
I don't think timely punishment is going to happen, so even by your reasoning this step is appropriate.
Feel better now? Thanks for the laughs.
Short version of what is known:
1. Police were pursuing a fleeing criminal at a high rate of speed.
2. For various reasons, the fleeing criminal went head on into an 18 wheeler. The criminal was unsurprisingly dead at the scene. The driver of the 18 wheeler was seriously injured in the crash and was unconscious at the hospital.
3. The police officers at the heart of this went to the hospital and demanded that the injured driver’s blood be drawn for toxicology tests to determine if he’d been on drugs or alcohol at the time of the crash.
4. As the unconscious truck driver was not otherwise involved in the pursuit, there was no probable cause to draw blood for this purpose.
5. Multiple Federal and state laws say that unless there are exigent circumstances (such as ‘someone else is going to die unless we get this evidence right the hell now), a blood draw ***requires*** that either a warrant be obtained from a judge or the person whose blood is to be drawn must give consent. These laws have all sorts of provisions up to and including allowing the person whose blood was drawn without permission or warrant to specifically sue the person who performed the draw, file felony charges, and basically ruin the life of anyone who illegally draws blood. Break these laws and you will never work in healthcare (and maybe not even at any place where you must inquire if they would like french fries with their order) again.
6. In accordance with the laws and her own ethics, the nurse said that since the unconscious man was not able to give permission, the police would have to get a warrant, something that would have taken only a few minutes by phone.
7. The police officers did not have probable cause for a warrant and decided to try to strongarm the nurse into breaking her ethics and the laws.
8. The nurse refused.
9. The two police officers illegally arrested her (assault under color of law) and all the other officers and security stood around and did nothing. Then they conspired with each other on how they could get someone else to draw the blood illegally.
10. It is not known why the police were attempting to get this innocent bystander’s blood. Speculation is that they were crooked cops who were trying to cover their ass and blame the unconscious driver for the crash.
Watch the video.
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