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Originally posted by drew3630:

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Agree. Bad pinch. And not only is it bad, the Cop had to know it would go viral. When will Cops figure out that everyone is video equipped these days? And I NEVER attempted to get a blood sample for another agency. For someone who is not a suspect or arrestee? Can you say "Chain of Custody" problem? If this other agency wanted a blood draw, they should have sent one of their own to get it. And if the hospital staff would have refused me anything, I would asked my prosecutor for a subpoena for the records I needed. All ERs routinely check for blood alcohol levels since that info is needed for proper treatment.
There was more than one way to skin this cat without all this insanity.

This. A lot of cops don't understand that everyone has a cell phone camera and they can't wait to shoot video and post it on social media. If this incident had occurred 15 - 20 years ago nobody would have heard about it.

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Originally posted by ulsterman:
Cameras don't stop idiots, just makes them more visible.

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Originally posted by enidpd804:
For the uninitiated: the law in this state allows blood draws on unconscious subjects when they are (aware or not) that they are under arrest for DUI. Nurses, under the law, medical personnel are exempt from liability when conducting blood draws which are required from the state. We've seen a lack of cooperation from ER staff from time to time, but have never resorted to this kind of silliness. That doesn't serve anyone well. I'm not sure what happened here, but it was handled incorrectly to the nth degree.

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Originally posted by Sig2340:

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Originally posted by enidpd804:
For the uninitiated: the law in this state allows blood draws on unconscious subjects when they are (aware or not) that they are under arrest for DUI. Nurses, under the law, medical personnel are exempt from liability when conducting blood draws which are required from the state. We've seen a lack of cooperation from ER staff from time to time, but have never resorted to this kind of silliness. That doesn't serve anyone well. I'm not sure what happened here, but it was handled incorrectly to the nth degree.

There was no evidence the person from whom the DOUCHEBADGE wanted blood was intoxicated. Zero.
And he was not under arrest. Therefore, your statement is a nonsequiter.

Wubbels carefully explained the law and policy and the DOUCHEBADGE arrested her because that's what douchebadges do when you refuse to implicate yourself in their criminal behavior.

As for everyone having video cameras, the most egregious video was from the douchebadge's own body camera!

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Rigby Police Chief Sam Tower on Friday thanked the Utah nurse and other hospital staffers for preventing Utah officers from obtaining a blood sample from 43-year-old William Gray, a Rigby reserve officer. Tower says protecting the rights of others is a heroic act.

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The arresting officers shown on the video were looking to draw blood from a critically injured unconscious semi-truck driver who had been the victim of a head-on collision with a suspect fleeing police.

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So what's the victim accused of that would warrant a blood draw as defined by state law? Innocent bystander comes to mind.

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Originally posted by gw3971:
A subpoena for those labs at a latter date would have been just fine. That of course assumes you can't get the victim to sign a medical release where he signs a one page form and the hospital copies all of the medical, treatment, xrays, labs and doctors notes which would have had his blood alcohol content. Thanks SLC and Det Payne. I am going to be apologizing to every nurse I know and work with for the next year because of you!

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Gray was severely injured in a northern Utah crash in July while working his full-time job as a truck driver. According to Tower, a suspect was fleeing Utah State Highway Patrol when the suspect's vehicle collided with Gray's truck.

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Originally posted by thunderson:
So what did this guy and his supervisor actually commit? They took her away by force, against her will, without any evidence of a crime. Isn't that abduction? If it's not, it damn well should be.

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Originally posted by 2000Z-71:

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Originally posted by thunderson:
So what did this guy and his supervisor actually commit? They took her away by force, against her will, without any evidence of a crime. Isn't that abduction? If it's not, it damn well should be.

Utah like Arizona, assault of a healthcare worker is a felony.

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
Here in Georgia, any CDL driver involved in a fatal collision, at fault or not, is required to have a blood test.

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If that's the case, I see no reason why a judge would not issue a warrant for the blood draw. In the long version of the video, the arresting officer can be heard stating that he does not have a warrant.

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Originally posted by jdmb03:
I guess I don't understand the cops hard-on for getting blood from a victim that was hit by a fleeing suspect.

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Originally posted by 2000Z-71:

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Originally posted by thunderson:
So what did this guy and his supervisor actually commit? They took her away by force, against her will, without any evidence of a crime. Isn't that abduction? If it's not, it damn well should be.

Utah like Arizona, assault of a healthcare worker is a felony.

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
all of this could have been avoided and handled professionally by doing one of two things:

1. get a warrant

2. get a subpoena at a later time for the hospital records...

now this guy makes the rest of cops look like assholes and it makes their jobs harder

douche

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I wonder what Officer Payne and his supervisor are thinking right now.