Here's the latest on the rogue cop and the fallout from his idiocy:
The Latest: Officer who arrested Utah nurse put on leave --
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...953_story.html
Quote:
4:30 p.m.
An Idaho police department is thanking a Utah nurse for stopping a Salt Lake City officer from obtaining a blood sample from one of their reserve officers who was unconscious in a hospital.
Police in the eastern Idaho town of Rigby said Friday that William Gray was severely injured in a Utah crash in July when the semi-truck he was driving for work was hit by another car.
Rigby police said in a statement they didn’t know until Thursday that the nurse was arrested after refusing to allow blood to be drawn from Gray.
The department thanked the nurse, Alex Wubbels, and hospital “for standing firm” and protecting the Gray’s rights.
It says he is still hospitalized.
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I don't know what the law is in Utah, but here in California, there are statutes providing for the criminal prosecution of law enforcement officers who exceed the scope of their duties and physically assault a citizen; attached to the the basic assault charge is a special circumstance of assault under cover of authority, resulting in some heavyweight time...
I don't know if someone has better ears than mine, but at the end of the video, the officer who was wearing the body cam (good on him for not turning it off) approaches Payne and says, softly, to him something starting with "just a 10-14", police jargon for a piece of information, and then he says, "I'm not going...", and the rest I couldn't make out. As the officer turns away, the camera catches a security guard looking at the body cam officer with a strange expression on his face...
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