Longer and different angle of nurse assault by those pigs

[SHRED]

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[underpants]

1. Interesting

[HopeAgain]

2. He'll get a sternly worded letter

and go back to being a cop asshole when it is all over.

[zipplewrath]

11. This is the problem

It never seems to occur to people that:

1) This wasn't an isolated incident. His actions are practice/automatic/rehearsed. He isn't figuring out this stuff as he goes along.

2) This is a larger part of an approach to the job. There is an underlying attitude involving his exercise of authority.

3) Other officers observed this and did not intervene. Other officers HAVE observed this in the past and did not intervene.

4) His "lieutenant" was aware of the general situation and instructed/empowered him to execute this line of action. So it's not "just one officer".

[Ilsa]

26. And he's on vacation - paid leave - right now.

He should lose his job and have to pay part of his pension to her for assault.

[Wellstone ruled]

34. Payne has issues mostly

Bully with a badge. As for the Nurse,the usual thing in Utah is to shame Females into not seeking redress. After all,in Utah,it is only one thing,might is right.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. I hope she sues the shit out

of the police department for this, and that the cop loses his job.

[MontanaMama]

4. I hope she sues the pants

of these assholes. Cops can't demand blood work from a nurse. They need a warrant or a court order for that. She was doing her job and got arrested for it. I'm shocked that the hospital administration and or security didn't get in the way of them taking her.

[niyad]

5. fucking storm trooper--may he receive EVERYTHING he deserves!!

[mopinko]

6. and 3 guys w guns and badges just let it happen.

the one who actually bothers to say "hey" is def a cop. not sure if the others are cops or hospital security, but somebody shoulda pulled their gun on this asshole.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

7. Yep. The other guy is Univesity Police and the guys in green are Hospital Security.

[beam me up scottie]

10. Basically rent-a-cops

And often police department rejects.

[TheFrenchRazor]

23. cops are brain-dead cult members; they have no internal sense of right/wrong. nt

[bluepen]

8. Outrageous. Crap like this infuriates me.

She's there to save lives. He's there to...do what, throw his power around?

[SonofDonald]

9. And dump wants to give them bigger and better weapons.

Welcome to the police state, this fuckwad needs to have his ass sued off and become unemployed.

Immediately.

[captain queeg]

12. I've said it before, all cops and all soldiers are not "heros"

They've all gotten a pass since 9/11 and that hero shit really bugs me. This guys is certainly no hero, nor any of the others who stood by and did nothing. I guess at least the one cop who kept his camera on the whole time and some sort of honor.

[Skittles]

20. they're not all PIGS either

[mythology]

24. Given how infrequently we see cops actually do anything to stop things like this

I think it's fair to say that while some (or even most) cops do some good things, they have a culture that doesn't respect the rights of citizens and the ones who simply do nothing share the guilt of the more overtly bad ones.

[Old Vet]

37. Hold it homeboy, The majority of soldiers and cops are heroes in my book.

Yes theres some assholes, But with any group of people theres a few nit wits that filter thru.........IMHO

[ismnotwasm]

13. The cop is still active duty

Just pulled off the of phlebotomy team. What would have happened here is the nurse had been an African American male?

[George II]

14. It looks like his fellow officer was trying to reason with him, he dismissed him.

And toward the end he looked embarrassed.

[TNNurse]

15. So several cops were there???

First I have seen this and as a retired RN, I have been reading about it today.

So none of those officers knew or cared how wrong this was and did not intervene. So much for one bad apple.

[Bob Loblaw]

16. Can you imagine the fear?

It appeared like he was going to put her in the front seat, and with no one else along. If she was my wife that bastard would be eating that porn 'stache he's sporting.

[spanone]

17. my mother was a nurse...this makes my blood boil.

the officer was completely out of line.

[smirkymonkey]

18. What an outrage!

How dare they treat her like that! They had absolutely no right to do that to her. I hope she sues the shit out of them.

[mcar]

19. This is horrible

I hope she sues their sorry asses and wins millions.

[cwydro]

28. Saw her on the news this morning.

Said he had apologized and she accepted it.

Go figure.

[Motownman78]

33. She is probably a Republican

who has been brainwashed into worshiping the police state.

[dalton99a]

21. There should be a lawsuit.

[workinclasszero]

22. Bloodly stinking outrage!!

I hope that poor nurse wins MILLIONS off of this crime!!

[Ilsa]

27. I wish it could get more personal, like her getting part of his pension. nt

[workinclasszero]

29. Yeah

I have to wonder if this cop violently manhandled this totally innocent nurse, wth has he done against other people in his line of work?

This creeps record needs to be investigated going back years.

[Ilsa]

31. To me, it is no different than a cop telling a doctor

to remove someone's kidney. The only difference is magnitude. They have no right to tell either licensed professional to do either.

[ck4829]

25. K&R

[heaven05]

30. the idiot potus

told this idiot storm trooper, it was/is okay how he treated this person/nurse following the law. This shit has been out of hand towards the citizen for so long....pigs are back in the lexicon in describing these goddamn trumpista storm troopers. I hear PIG everyday now...from a wide variety of people....to hell with the pigs. A good cop, I have the most respect in the world for...yet they seem so rare now.

[Ilsa]

32. Yeah, would those same people who cheered trump before

cheer him now? What does trump think about how the thug handled this nurse?

[DonaldsRump]

35. Out and out constitutional violation

This cop, if he keeps his job, needs to go back to cop school and learn some basic constitutional law. There were extremely limited circumstances that the police could constitutionally cause blood to be drawn, none of which were present here. Both the nurse and her supervisor repeatedly told the cop this, and he still couldn't control his temper nor be aware of some very basic rules that limit what police can do. Unbelievable!

As an aside, I read that Alex Wubbels, the nurse, was an alpine skier who competed in two Winter Olympics. I truly feel badly for how she was humiliated and hurt by this cop. As others have mentioned, I can only imagine how much worse it might have been if the nurse had been a PoC.

[MyOwnPeace]

36. "If he keeps his job?"

This is an OUTRAGE!!
This is "gestapo" at its worst!
The man is taking the "power" of his position to extremes that endangers the safety of the entire community and violates the rights of all law-abiding citizens.

HE MUST BE FIRED AND JAILED FOR ASSAULT!

Yes, I know, the "men in blue" are out there to protect us and at least 98% of them (don't really know a number here - I'm only hoping there's that many!) are doing the proper and noble job. THIS "officer" gives all proper authorities such a bad name and puts a negative cast on all of them.

HE NEEDS TO GO - HE NEEDS TO BE KEPT AWAY FROM HARMING LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS!!!!!!

Administrative leave? Should be PERMANENT LEAVE - for the good of society!