ARMED AND DANGEROUS
VIDEO: NURSE ARRESTED, CUFFED FOR NOT DRAWING BLOOD
'Help! Help! Somebody help me! Stop! Stop! I did nothing wrong!'
A Salt Lake City nurse is waiting – more than a month after the incident – for an apology from a police officer who snapped and arrested her when she cited hospital protocol in refusing his demand that she draw blood from an unconscious patient.
The situation developed in July, but the video of Det. Jeff Payne snapping and demanding that she be arrested immediately, went viral this week.
See the officer lose it:
NBC reported the nurse, Alex Wubbels, explained what hurt most was that none of the other officers on the scene tried to help her – as she was physically manhandled by Payne.
“I was being bullied and nobody was willing to speak up for me,” Wubbels told NBC News. “That is one of the main points of this whole issue.”
Wubbels, a University of Utah Hospital nurse and a former Olympic athlete, told the network Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski did apologize.
“But neither Det. Jeff Payne, the officer who arrested her, nor his supervisor have apologized for what Wubbels called the ‘disgrace they put upon themselves,” NBC said.
According to reports, the bodycam footage reveals Payne demanding Wubbels draw the blood, and more or less ignoring her explanation that hospital protocal required an electronic warrant, patient consent, or that the officer declare an intent to arrest the patient.
The footage, a total of almost 20 minutes, showed the officer getting more and more impatient, finally snapping.
“No, we’re done,” he demanded. “You’re under arrest, we’re going!”
The video then showed him yanking her arms behind her, and cuffing her before hauling her to the back of the patrol car.
NBC said Wubbels reported, “He was on a mission. I just knew that I was in the right.”
She wasn’t charged, and the officer remains on duty.
When asked if Payne should be punished, NBC reported, she said, “That’s not for me to make that choice.”
Police say they continue investigating, but a department spokesperson said there was alarm that the situation developed.
The nurse has been at the hospital since 2009, after competing in the 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics as an Alpine skier.
The National Nurses United has expressed its outrage and Wubbels has criticized the officer’s actions as “not even civil.”
The officer wanted the patient’s blood sample because of an accident. He was driving a truck and his vehicle collided with one of a driver who was trying to escape from police.
The driver was unconscious when he was brought to the hospital July 26, but the officers wanted the blood sample immediately.
The Salt Lake City newspaper reported Payne claimed he was told by Lt. James Tracy, the watch commander, to arrest Wubbels for interference if she refused to do what he wanted.
Officials confirm that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2016 that the Constitution allows warrantless breath tests, but not warrantless blood tests.
Payne identified the driver as William Gray, 43, of Rigby, Idaho.
The newspaper said, Gray, a reserve police officer “was driving a semi north on State Road 89/91 near Sardine Canyon when a man fleeing from the Utah Highway Patrol crashed a pickup truck into him headon, according to Logan police, who investigated the collision.”
The other driver, Marcos Torres, 26, died.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/09/video-nurse-arrested-cuffed-for-not-drawing-blood/#lgCyBi0SDqUAe0F2.99
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