To not understand why the nurse was arrested?

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Why would you arrest someone for refusing to take blood from someone unconscious?

Was the policeman on glue?!

Even if say it was actually policy, surely you just ask for a superior and medics are allowed to refuse to perform any procedure personally?

If I understand it right... someone speeding was a suspect in a police chase. Speeding suspect crashed into truck man and speeding suspect died. Truck man was who they wanted blood from...

Doesn't even make any sense

The video footage is shocking. She was really frightened. I'm not sure how this all unfolded but it can't be right.

How awful, the police force in America is a disgrace.

That's horrific. She is clearly on the phone to someone who is giving her advice on policy and her reasoning is faultless.,.and then she's grabbed and cuffed! I hope that officer never ever works again in the police force.

Poor nurse! Very volatile situation, the police officer was surely out of line but thank goodness he did not draw his weapon.

Bloody hell. That's bad.

I don't think the blood draw was part of the care for the patient. I think it was gathering evidence by the police.

This is the US we're talking about. I can 100% understand why she wouldn't do it. Can you imagine if she'd taken it and they built a prosecution around it? She'd have been sued and struck off.

I keep trying to find a way to view it from his POV. I just can't see how any logical thought got him to "arrest this woman" if I don't get blood from this unconscious RTA victim right now.

It would be illegal for a health care professional to take blood from an unconcious person for any purpose that was not in the best interests of the patient i.e. for their immediate treatment, in this country. Surely the same rights stand in America.

Why didn't he just get a warrant? Surely the time it would have taken to argue arrest and process an innocent person a warrent couod hsve been obtained. I mean he left empty handed anyway

The blood wasn't even wanted from a suspect... but from a victim. Suspect had died

Also awful that his colleague told her off for obstructing him ... he was wrong, not her but the police were still pushing the point !!

Doesn't surprise me.

Did anyone see the other video today- showing how fucked up some of the USA Police are? I will try to find it.

Ahhhh. I do apologise. The police officer wanted to 'prove' the truck driver was innocent or contributed to the crash.

I'm sorry I misunderstood the story.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/01/us-police-officer-caught-video-telling-woman-shoot-black-people/

At last, one of the racist bastards tells the truth.

That's the story I was thinking of.

Christ Almighty said the atheist.

She needs to sue the fuck out them, seriously she really does and I hate the 'sue culture'

The fact that even as he was shoving her along she was still calling him Sir...........is just WTF

I doubt he had any grounds to arrest her. he was told by the hospital administrators that he was legally in the wrong, he didn't give a fuck.

@Nikephorus ; I'm with you

I've heard it said about a few countries "run from the police and towards the criminals"

The US I think is becoming that way.

I really worry about my family's safety in the US nowadays. It seems to be becoming more and more lawless

Was the truck driver black?

Black people are blamed for just existing in the US, so I would not be surprised if he tried to blame the accident on the truck driver and just hoped the guy would happen to have some blood alcohol - some tiny bit of alcohol that would be gone if he were allowed to wake up beforehand.

@IfYouGo So he got fired. For telling the truth. That's unfair. I mean, what he said doesn't even have to mean that he's racist. It is just a factual statement that the US police usually only shoot black people. Apparently he didn't even say that he liked it, just that that's how it is.
I suspect that's why he got fired, for saying it like it is.

Have to say I am glad she wasn't black!

The 2 news items combined, I dread to think if she was.

We're they the police who were chasing the driver in the speed Chase that resulted in the crash? Are they trying to pin it on the truck driver rather then admit they could perhaps have ended the chase way befire

That gives a motive actually! @Gileswithachainsaw

It was horrific treatment by an utter cunt that will not be a police officer for much longer, if he hasn't been fired already. She did NOTHING wrong at all and it was incredibly distressing to watch let alone experience.