Cop in Hot Water After Handcuffing EMT Just Trying to Care for Patient

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The EMT accidentally bumped a cop car with her door IN THE AMBULANCE BAY when she was getting out at the hospital to unload a patient. The cop demanded her ID but she took the patient into the hospital instead and he SLAMMED HER INTO A WALL and cuffed her

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Cop in Hot Water After Handcuffing EMT Just Trying to Care for Patient
The officer was reportedly infuriated that the EMT hit his squad car with the ambulance door—and demanded she immediately hand over identification.
4:03 PM · Jul 16, 2022

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A Rochester police officer is on desk duty after he was caught on camera forcefully handcuffing an emergency medical technician who’d reportedly bumped his squad car with her ambulance door just outside a hospital.

According to News 10 Rochester, the Monroe Ambulance EMT was attempting to unload a patient in the ambulance bay area at Strong Memorial Hospital when she hit the cop’s car. The officer then demanded the EMT give him her identification, but the health-care worker was more concerned about getting the patient inside the hospital for treatment, the report says.

In a video of the incident obtained by News 10, the EMT can be seen standing next to a colleague at the hospital check-in desk with the patient on a stretcher. The investigator, who is wearing a red shirt, then rushes toward the EMT, pushing her into a wall before handcuffing her and escorting her out of the hospital. The medical worker was ultimately released from custody without charges being filed.

In a statement released Friday on Facebook, Monroe Ambulance said the EMT made the correct call in bringing the patient inside the hospital as soon as possible.

“While the incident is still under internal investigation, our review of the video footage of the event indicates the safety of both our employee and that of her patient were jeopardized by the action of the officer,” the statement said. “Our employee demonstrated sound decision making by prioritizing the care of her patient and it is the expectation of all our care providers to do the same.”

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[PuraVidaDreamin]

1. Arrested for being a black female EMT

This shit has got to stop!

[electric_blue68]

12. That "didn't obey" his order - when Her First Duty was To the Patient!!! God damn fucker!!!

STOP Abusing BIPOC!

[Trueblue1968]

39. The Female EMT should SUE the PIG Cop for $2,948,736,286.99 for arresting her cuz she is black

I WOULD !!!!

[tulipsandroses]

2. Didn't have to see the video to guess the races

Hope he’s fired

[captain queeg]

3. The officer involved has since been assigned to administrative duties.

He should be reassigned to the unemployment line.

[Chin music]

4. The attack/war on health care workers continues.

Doctors. EMTS. Who's next?

[SharonClark]

5. Well, that certainly pissed me off.

I liked that the Daily Beast article was subtitled “petit tyrant” because it is exactly who that cop is.

Why was the cop parked in an ambulance bay?

Please keep DU informed about this incident, I hope he gets disciplined.

[electric_blue68]

13. Ah, "petite tyrant" very good.

[crickets]

23. "Why was the cop parked in an ambulance bay?" - This! nt

[irisblue]

25. There are PDs that "Scoop & Run". The person is put in the cruiser& the cop goes

I do not know if this is that or a cop led/followed an ambulance in this case. I do know ER bays will have cop cars in them
https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=176014

I honestly hadn't given much thought to emergency transport for shooting victims until I started looking into “scoop and run,” a longstanding practice in Philadelphia in which cops toss gunshot and stabbing victims into the backseats of their cars and rush them to a trauma center.Nov 19, 2018
https://www.thetrace.org › 2018/11
'Scoop and Run' Can Save Lives. Why Don't More Police Departments Try It?

This particular cop is a massive dick

[intheflow]

35. I read in another article that he parked there

while following up on a case, but that indicates he wasn't there in an emergency capacity and could have parked elsewhere and walked his fat ass in.

Also, I want to see the damage to the car from a door opening onto it. A scratch? A small dent? I mean, even if the EMT took off his door as she tried to get her patient out, what fucking person blocks/delays an ambulance patient's entrance to an emergency room? He could have waited until the intake paperwork was done to get her info, his car obviously wasn't so damaged he couldn't drive it.

[Turbineguy]

6. There should be funding for retraining as part of the police benefit package.

Some people choose the wrong profession, but with police, lives are at stake. In the grand scheme of things it would be better to be able to look for a different profession without stigma.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. You want to give them MORE money? LMAO.

[Turbineguy]

11. I want them to be able to choose

a better way of making a living than killing unarmed teenagers. How's that?

[electric_blue68]

14. 👍

[WhiskeyGrinder]

18. So abolish the institution.

[MyOwnPeace]

26. Yeah, then what?

I understand your concern for the current climate regarding how the police forces work, but to 'abolish?'

Then what?

I'm interested in hearing your plan..... seriously.........

[WhiskeyGrinder]

28. .

I encourage you to read up on police abolition, which is a theory that has been around for decades. The absence of police calls for the presence of something else, and, to keep it short, would mean much greater investments in education (including emotional intelligence, parenting, and social and mental health), the social safety net, jobs and job training, housing and so on. We know what causes violent crime, and yet we refuse to fund the very things that prevent those causes.

[rsdsharp]

34. McDonalds is hiring.

I don’t think they’re paying six figures for a GED, though.

[Disaffected]

17. Cheap shot.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

19. Truth hurts.

[Disaffected]

20. Why?

Is there some "....ism" you have in mind here?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

21. What ism are you implying?

Why was it a cheap shot?

[Disaffected]

22. Nothing in particular.

It just seems you often have an ism for a lot of things.

It was a cheap shot because it was a cheap shot (cheapshotism?).

[SunImp]

7. We have an overwhelming amount of trash cops in this country

[MyOwnPeace]

27. We have a significant number that make 'headlines.'

I'd like to know the percentage related to ALL 'cops' out there.....

What's that old saying about the baby and bathwater......

[Act_of_Reparation]

30. I think it goes something like this:

"The baby drowned in the bathwater because we were too busy making excuses for the faulty plumbing."

[dalton99a]

8. Fucking psycho wastes no time attacking innocent and unarmed people

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. Unreformable. Abolish it all.

[artemisia1]

15. Maybe this fine EMT will now have the funds to go to medical school via lawsuit. This

powertripper needs to be off the force.

[EndlessWire]

36. Yeah!

I'd like to hear about lots of money coming her way. The only question should be how much. And, the cop needs to move on.

I like the statement from her employer, who stated they wanted all their employees to behave in the same way she did.

Door smacks happen. They happen in life. Not too many people abuse their arrest powers by hauling in someone for having it happen, however.

She got roughed up, and didn't appear to be resisting. The last thing you'd expect to have happen to you while on the job saving a life. Can you imagine?

How can you be a cop with a straight face and explain that you are booking a person in an EMT uniform for clipping your squad door?

Money, money, money, money, money, money, money, oooooh, money, college money coming her way...or a house...her own company...ooooh, money! Go get it, girl! And, it came with tapes.

[Tetrachloride]

16. Rochester, New York

https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester

as compared to 16 other places in the USA.

[Carlitos Brigante]

24. So, do police depts. actually seek out sociopaths for recruitment? Or are

sociopaths more attracted to these kinds of jobs? All of the above, perhaps? "Normal", functioning adult human beings don't need training in order to contain themselves from assaulting other human beings. People talk about these grown ass men and women as if they're pre-school children we're trying to teach how to behave in society.

[MyOwnPeace]

32. Love the 'question' -

We need to know "WHO" is running the department - then "HOW" is it being trained - and "WHO" are they looking for to fill the roster.
We see it all of the time on TV - "Good Boss" / Bad Department" - "Bad Boss" / 'Concerned' cops....etc........

It takes serious involvement from the lead administrator (Mayor, Commissioner,etc.), administrative branch (city council, county board, etc), and COMMUNITY involvement (if the 'law' allows...).

The acquisition of "authority" is a powerful drug - there needs to be a 'program' in place to assure we don't get 'the wrong people' in there - probably the same problem the military has - perhaps lessons to be learned there......

[Stuart G]

29. The officer was totally unaware that he was being photographed by a live camera. That is why he did

it. He,.....THE OFFICER WAS SURE HE WAS GOING TO GET AWAY WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

............. No consequences at all..None, Nada, Zero etc.......

........If he knew he was going to photographed, by a live camera, of exactly what he did...........he would

..........NOT HAVE DONE IT... HE was sure of

....................................".NO CONSEQUENCES AT ALL"...

............................that is why he did it,.....!!!!!! and you had better believe that...that is why the cop did it.

[Historic NY]

31. Which begs the question WTF was the cop parked in an aread for ambulances?

[Thtwudbeme]

33. I was a paramedic 30 years ago. We had such a great relationship with law enforcement

We always backed each other up.

My question is this- why didn't we see anyone come to assist that woman?

[uponit7771]

38. She is black

[uponit7771]

37. Of course the "her" here is black ... because ... yeah, we know why