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Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video

posted by mrpg on Wednesday October 11 2017, @06:05PM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday October 12 2017, @03:38PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 12 2017, @03:38PM (#581172) Journal
    What might make this case different is that he was trying to frame another police officer. No one would buy that he arrested a nurse for failing to provide access to a comatose patient without a warrant merely because he wanted to protect the patient (a patient who if he so happened to have evidence of illicit drugs or alcohol in his blood would greatly reduce the liability that the police department would be exposed to in this case). This patient happened to be a police officer.

    So said police department would have to either buy a pig in a poke (and not investigate at all why the officer had been fired) or be comfortable with hiring a police officer that was willing to do this to another police officer.