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Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video

posted by mrpg on Wednesday October 11 2017, @06:05PM   
from the took-way-too-long dept.

stormreaver writes:

"A Utah police officer [Jeff Payne] who was caught on video roughly handcuffing a nurse because she refused to allow a blood draw was fired Tuesday in a case that became a flashpoint in the ongoing national conversation about police use of force."

Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown made the decision after an internal investigation found evidence Detective Jeff Payne violated department policies when he arrested nurse Alex Wubbels and dragged her out of the hospital as she screamed on July 26, said Sgt. Brandon Shearer, a spokesman for the department.

Attorney Greg Skordas has said Payne served the department well for nearly three decades and questioned whether his behavior warranted termination. He couldn't immediately be reached for comment Tuesday.

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Utah cop fired after arresting nurse who wouldn't draw blood
Some videos on youtube
Utah officer wants to apologize for nurse's controversial arrest

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• Re:Countdown till every conviction gets thrown out Re:Countdown till every conviction gets thrown out (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 11 2017, @07:13PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 11 2017, @07:13PM (#580711)

  > Defense attorneys love stuff like this.

  You know who also loves stuff like this? Innocent people who were imprisoned because of falsified evidence.

  If Officer "If You Know What's Good For You" Payne simply had to have some evidence, and wouldn't accept "no" as an answer, the evidence provided by the frightened citizen has good odds of being false. Not many people are willing to bet their entire life on the practically non-existent chance that a judge and jury will trust their word over an officers.

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• ''falsified evidence'' (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @01:30AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @01:30AM (#580902)

  We previously discussed forensics lab tech Annie Dookhan and how she stole evidence (drugs) and queered test results.
  Massachusetts Throws Out 21,587 Tainted Drug Convictions [soylentnews.org]
  Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests [soylentnews.org]

  I had another thing in my personal queue but took so long to get back to it that I deleted it just the other day.
  Now, here we are again on a similar topic.

  Drug cases tainted by Sonja Farak should be dismissed [aclum.org]

  The ACLU of Massachusetts [says]
  [...]
  Almost every day for eight years, while working as a state chemist in the Amherst lab, Farak manufactured drugs, stole samples, and tested evidence while under the influence, throwing thousands of drug cases into question.

  Since the Amherst scandal first became public in January 2013, Farak's lab misconduct has been compounded by the AGO's misconduct because, according to the recent findings of Superior Court Justice, Assistant Attorneys General deliberately misled the court and defense lawyers about the evidence against Farak.

  This combined wrongdoing by Farak and the AGO, in turn, has been further intensified by the District Attorneys' failure to identify the "Farak Defendants" and notify them about the violations of their rights.

  -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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