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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
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Utah officer wants to apologize for nurse's controversial arrest

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• Couldn't happen to a nicer person (Score: 3, Informative) by tangomargarine on Wednesday October 11 2017, @08:01PM

  by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday October 11 2017, @08:01PM (#580750)

  Payne was also fired from a part-time job as a paramedic after he was caught on camera saying he'd take transient patients to the University of Utah hospital where Wubbels worked and take the "good patients" elsewhere as retribution.

  Payne had previously been disciplined in 2013 after internal-affairs investigators confirmed that he sexually harassed a female co-worker in a "persistent and severe" way.

  His supervisor sounds a bit out of it, too.

  Payne nevertheless insisted, saying the evidence would protect the man. Payne told Wubbels his supervisor [Lt. James Tracy] said he should arrest her if she didn't allow the blood draw. Tracy arrived on scene after the arrest and forcefully told a handcuffed Wubbels that she should have allowed the blood draw. She was later released without charge.

  Tracy, meanwhile, has risen to through the ranks since he was hired in 1995, earning commendations for drug and burglary investigations. He was reprimanded in 1997 for moving two handcuffed people from one location to another a few miles away and releasing them without documenting the incident.

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