Absolutely outrageous video has surfaced of Salt Lake City nurse Alex Wubbels being violently arrested for following hospital policy and doing her job at University Hospital. Derek Hawkins of the Washington Post has the breakdown of the scene at the Utah hospital:
By all accounts, the head nurse at the University of Utah Hospital’s burn unit was professional and restrained when she told a Salt Lake City police detective he wasn’t allowed to draw blood from a badly injured patient.
The detective didn’t have a warrant, first off. And the patient wasn’t conscious, so he couldn’t give consent. Without that, the detective was barred from collecting blood samples — not just by hospital policy, but by basic constitutional law.
Still, Detective Jeff Payne insisted that he be let in to take the blood, saying the nurse would be arrested and charged if she refused.
It’s also notable that the unconscious patient they were trying to draw blood from was the victim of an accident, not the driver who caused the accident.
It all started when a suspect speeding away from police in a pickup truck on a local highway smashed head-on into a truck driver, as local media reported. Medics sedated the truck driver, who was severely burned, and took him to the University of Utah Hospital. He arrived in a comatose state, according to the Deseret News. The suspect died in the crash.
Nevertheless, Detective Payne insisted he had “implied consent” and began threatening Wubbels with arrest. After Wubbels held her ground and a hospital administrator can be heard on speaker phone telling Detective Payne he is making a mistake, Payne lunges at Wubbels and drags her outside the hospital in an aggressive, violent arrest. Watch this video from The Salt Lake Tribune, which shows Wubbels reading the policy (and the law) just before she is arrested. Jump below to see the additional body cam footage that shows just how violent Payne was with the arrest.
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