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NPR reports a nurse in Utah who was arrested on July 26th in Utah has reached a $500,000 settlement with the city and hospital system. Nurse Alex Wubbels was arrested by Detective Jeff Payne for refusing to take a blood sample from a patient without the patient's consent or a warrant. When she tried to present the detective with the hospital policy on the subject, the Detective announced she was under arrest and took her away in handcuffs. The Detective has since been fired after it was initially reported that he was "counseled."
At the beginning of the [body camera] video, she is seen calmly reading the officer the hospital's policy not to allow blood to be drawn without a warrant or the patient's consent, unless the patient is under arrest. "This is something you guys agreed to with this hospital," she explains. Then the officer lunges at Wubbels, forces her outside and handcuffs her as she screams that she has done nothing wrong. The footage drew widespread outrage when it was released by the nurse and her attorney. It became part of a broader conversation about police use of force.
The Washington Post reported, "Wubbels said she will donate some of the proceeds to a fund that will help people obtain body camera footage and provide free legal aid for open records requests. She is also planning to use the money to raise awareness about workplace violence against nurses." Alex Wubbels, in a guest blog post at the American Nurses Association, describes the campaign as #EndNurseAbuse. Workplace violence against nurses is not something covered that often outside the profession, and yet something every ER worker knows about. Usually, though, it isn't the police who are the perpetrators.
(Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Thursday November 02 2017, @12:51PM (2 children)
I disagree. She was pressured into doing something highly illegal to the point of handcuffing her and leaving her in a police car for 20 minutes. If she had buckled under to the pressure, she might have lost her job. And nobody did anything [nytimes.com] about it until her video ended up on the internet a month later.
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Notice all these actions happened the week after the public release of the video. So we had this egregious abuse of police power, complete with witnesses and video, yet nothing happened until she put the video on the internet.
It's not just the abuse of power. It's not just her job that was at stake. It was also that we have good indications that the authorities were going to sweep this under the rug and ignore the problem.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @02:03PM (1 child)
Because telling cops they are barred from an area will always keep them out.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday November 03 2017, @12:25AM