Utah hospital nurse roughed up, arrested by cop for doing her job

[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

As stupid as the cops move was and as much as I appreciate compensation for the nurse 500,000$ is completely excessive. That's tax money after all. Over here she would most likely have gotten 5,000$ if that much. Seriously half a million for being wrongfully arrested?

I think there is more to it than than that. The police violated the law they are sworn to uphold in falsely imprisoning and detaining her. I say that as she had to sit in a police car for 30 minutes or better while the police were figuring out what to do. The police disrupted hospital operation to a large degree and it's in that chaos that lives, including other hospital patients could have been lost.

The nurse ( Alex Wubbels ) who was detained was balancing 8 or more patients. Was the hospital able to divide her patients among the other nursing personnel who were there or did they have to pull another nurse from somewhere else ? The nurse herself could have seriously injured herself in the melee that followed. Did anyone consider the nurse could have been on blood pressure medication or statins which would reasonably preclude her from stressful situations like the encounter with the police. Could she have had a CV episode ( stroke ) ? The nursing duties she has are already stressful enough.

Half a million is not enough in my opinion but the money should come from the overly generous police pension fund. That is also payed by the taxpayers. It would hurt them where it counts. I'm sure if the police were paying for their stupid decisions themselves, they would start policing their own ranks and encounters like this would be a rarity.