Authorities say a Utah police officer who was caught on video roughly handcuffing a nurse because she refused to allow a blood draw has been fired.
A Salt Lake City Police spokesman said Chief Mike Brown made the decision Tuesday following an investigation into Detective Jeff Payne, who made the arrest that became a flashpoint in the ongoing national conversation about police use of force.
Body-camera video showed nurse Alex Wubbels explaining hospital policy required a warrant or formal consent to draw blood from the patient injured in a July 26 car crash. Payne had neither but insisted. The dispute ended with him dragging her outside as she screamed she had done nothing wrong. Watch the video and read more on the story here.
Police later apologized and changed their policies.
For any of those who missed this story back at the beginning of last month, this is what went down that day.
Some people become police officers to protect the public, but some become cops because they want to exert power of others.
And I still think that if this nurse had been black this cop would have remained on the force.
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