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(182,788 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)and go back to being a cop asshole when it is all over.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)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
(61,695 posts)He should lose his job and have to pay part of his pension to her for assault.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)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
(25,853 posts)of the police department for this, and that the cop loses his job.
MontanaMama
(23,313 posts)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
(113,284 posts)mopinko
(70,090 posts)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
(26,326 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)And often police department rejects.
TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)bluepen
(620 posts)She's there to save lives. He's there to...do what, throw his power around?
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)Welcome to the police state, this fuckwad needs to have his ass sued off and become unemployed.
Immediately.
captain queeg
(10,185 posts)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
(153,159 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)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
(2,001 posts)Yes theres some assholes, But with any group of people theres a few nit wits that filter thru.........IMHO
ismnotwasm
(41,976 posts)Just pulled off the of phlebotomy team. What would have happened here is the nurse had been an African American male?
George II
(67,782 posts)And toward the end he looked embarrassed.
TNNurse
(6,926 posts)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
(1,900 posts)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
(135,830 posts)the officer was completely out of line.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)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
(42,307 posts)I hope she sues their sorry asses and wins millions.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Said he had apologized and she accepted it.
Go figure.
Motownman78
(491 posts)who has been brainwashed into worshiping the police state.
dalton99a
(81,471 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)I hope that poor nurse wins MILLIONS off of this crime!!
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)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
(61,695 posts)to remove someone's kidney. The only difference is magnitude. They have no right to tell either licensed professional to do either.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)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
(61,695 posts)cheer him now? What does trump think about how the thug handled this nurse?
DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)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
(16,926 posts)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!