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I am becoming more and more concerned with the status of our rights and the rise of what I feel is a militarized police state in our country. This woman was assaulted and arrested for following the law, which also was hospital policy. The detective had no authority to physically manhandle and hurt this woman, as well as to haul her to the police station.
The State Prosecutor is now looking into filing a criminal investigation against the officer. I'm hoping the hospital and nurse get a large settlement from this.
I respect good police officers and know that guys like this will only make the jobs of respectable police officers, who put their lives on the line to help the public, much more difficult. Why is it some police feel they can usurp our laws based on their own intuition? From what I am reading, what he did is consider a federal offense, by both falsely imprisoning a hospital employee and interfering in the care of a patient in the ER.
I have to say though that I am grateful for body cameras as it can diffuse any doubts of how this encounter went down.
What really angered me was just the bullying of the employees, manhandling of law-abiding respectable people like they were criminals. Then he threatens to arrest every one of the employees in the ER who stood in his way.
I am thinking this will be a very large lawsuit that can potentially enter in to a criminal case. It will the hospital going up against the Salt Lake City Police Department.
And , to be honest, Law Enforcement harassing and terrorizing hospital staff in the ER, who work so hard to save the lives of many people, including law enforcement officers wounded on duty, just is very sickening in itself. Sure hope people from this guy's department don't ever have to end up in a life-critical situation and need help from this hospital; as I don't think they should go out of their way for them.
In a strange twist, as I just read another article.. It appears that the crash victim, himself, was a Reserved police officer for a police department in Idaho. The Idaho police department where this officer serves actually called up the nurse to thank her for refusing the order from the Salt Lake City detective demanding an illegal blood test. So, as you can see, there is good law enforcement agencies out there, who are also having to deal with the bad actions of rogue police officers like this Salt Lake City detective, Jeff Payne.
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