Report: Officer lost control before arresting Utah nurse

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press
 Updated 3:35 pm, Thursday, September 14, 2017



FILE--In this Sept. 1, 2017, file photo, nurse Alex Wubbels speaks during an interview after she was dragged in handcuffs by Utah police from a hospital in Salt Lake City. The case of the police officer caught on video dragging Wubbels from the hospital in handcuffs is now before a Utah police chief to decide possible punishment after a law enforcement oversight board found the detective lost control and got aggressive while his supervisor failed to seek legal advice that could have calmed the situation


SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah police chief will decide any possible punishment for an officer caught on video dragging a nurse from a hospital and handcuffing her after a review board found he lost control and got aggressive.

It appears Salt Lake City Detective Jeff Payne became upset during a long wait to draw blood from a patient and his frustration spilled over after nurse Alex Wubbels refused under hospital policy, the report from the independent Police Civilian Review board report said.
 
"His verbal actions were loud, aggressive, and overly mission driven," the report released Wednesday states, adding that Payne "very clearly lost control of his emotions."

That report and another from the Salt Lake City Police Department's internal affairs investigators will be considered by police chief Mike Brown as he weighs possible punishment that could include firing.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Report-Officer-lost-control-before-arresting-12198545.php

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[TNNurse]

1. It is essential to police officers and nurses,

you do not get to lose your temper and get upset while doing your job. He is clearly unsuited to remain in police work. She remained calm under much more stress than he had.

[FarPoint]

3. This officer has maxed out...

He is in burnout with no recovery window....time to go fishing or camping for him... Crossed the line with no Redemption option.

[Ilsa]

12. ITA. He shouldn't be allowed back on the front lines.

He'll be twice as eff'ed up as he was before, too. He is no longer temperamentally suited for this job.

[FarPoint]

15. He's done....

Put a fork in him stage. ..

[Blues Heron]

20. More like jail- can you imagine this guy in the next campsite over?

[True Dough]

2. The report confirms

what we all saw with our own eyes and heard with our own ears.

[SkyDaddy7]

18. It sure will be a nice day in America...

When review boards come to similar conclusions when cops are clearly in the wrong when handling African Americans...But there is no sign of that happening at all. It is very depressing.

[33taw]

4. I would like to see him fired. He clearly has limited self control.

But I also question what's up with the department? This is only an issue because the nurse's lawyer made it a public issue. My guess is they thought it was funny and joked about it in the office. I hope she does seek some damages from their office.

[Gothmog]

5. This officer needs to be fired

[Wellstone ruled]

7. As well as his

Supervisor and the two Security Guards standing with their thumbs up their noses.

[MurrayDelph]

17. Fired, AND

never allowed to work in Law Enforcement again.

[orangecrush]

6. Kick for visibility

This guy needs to find another line of work.

[rurallib]

8. If he isn't fired the chief should have a lot of explaining to do

not only to the public, but also to his officers.

[Snake Plissken]

9. "Lost control"? Try he committed multiple felonies and belongs in a prison cell

[Mr.Bill]

10. Exactly.

I don't know about Utah, but in California assaulting a health care worker is the same crime as assaulting a police officer. They put people in jail for kicking a police dog, FFS.

[byronius]

14. +1 -- I'm sure he does this all the time, just not on video.

[Bob Loblaw]

11. Plus

He could use a decent haircut

[TeamPooka]

13. How could any citizen depend on this officer? Who in the public or 1st responders would trust him?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. Just the kind of people you want to have a gun and a badge

[Bengus81]

19. Lost control...CTA at it's best..........

Now what,a two week vacation and back to being a THUG cop?? That POS needs to be FIRED NOW,not coddled.

[skypilot]

21. "His verbal actions were loud, aggressive, and overly mission driven,"...

His verbal actions? What about his physical actions. And that "overly mission driven" business borders on trying to excuse his actions. It sounds as though they're saying that he was so focused on his "mission" that he got carried away. It's almost as though they are trying to reprimand him and commend him at the same time.

[obamanut2012]

22. I hope she sues them -- the union won't allow him to be fired

Make them pay her MILLIONS, and she can do with the money whatever she wants, and make part of the agreement be the HR policies need to be changed. Most people won't do anything until it costs them money.