Utah hospital nurse is roughed up and arrested by cop for doing her job

If they weren't asking her to draw the blood then she was out of line to keep the cops from drawing the blood.

Yep

 

That's ridiculous. She was trying to keep the cops from drawing blood citing regulations that only applied to her personnel. Seems they both were on a power trip.

 

And that's where you're wrong.

 

Ok, I'll play, how am I wrong?

 

Barney was out of line. She wasn't. Are you the ex cop in this thread or was that someone else.

 

They were both out of line. I've said that repeatedly.
Ex-cop means I'm biased? Is that your meaning?

 

I wasn't sure if it was but your view of her made me think only another cop would think that. I was too lazy to scroll.

 

I might be wrong, but my understanding is that the cops brought their own phlebotomist to draw blood. But she was preventing them from doing so by quoting policy that only applied to hospital personnel.

Also, I might be wrong again, but I'm assuming that Utah law is similar or the same as Louisiana law in that cops may draw blood from a commercial driver who is not under arrest, without a warrant, and without consent ( I provided a link to this statute earlier in the thread).

For the two above reasons I say that the nurse was out of line. The cops should have simply explained the argument I've described in this post, but they were being pig-headed and impatient.

 

She reacted to the asshole cop who is supposed to be the professional in pressure situations. This didn't even qualify as one until he made it so. Pretty sure not too many see this as an equal blame.

Id go 99% barney.

 

I'm haven't even thought of assigning share of blame. That's all opinion. I was just discussing the facts of the case. Too each his own. But you're right, it didn't need to be a pressure situation, patient wasn't going anywhere.