Police Demand A Nurse Draw Blood Without A Warrant, Arrest Her When She Refuses
Reason published a story today about the unlawful arrest of a nurse in Salt Lake City. Police Det. Jeff Payne and several other officers are in a hospital emergency room demanding that the nurse draw blood from a man who is unconscious.
Nurse Alex Wubbels is on the phone with one of her superiors at the hospital who directs her to print out a one-page documents which outlines the circumstances under which she can draw blood from a patient and give it to police. Either the patient is conscious and can consent to the procedure, or the police can provide a warrant for the blood or, lastly, if the patient is under arrest police are allowed to get a sample.
In this case, the man was unconscious, not under arrest, and police had no warrant. Nurse Wubbels calmly tells the officers “I’m just trying to do what I’m supposed to do.” Instead of backing off, Det. Payne arrests the Nurse and handcuffs her.
Again, he has no legal right to do this. And as Reason points out, it’s not clear what the police needed this blood for anyway since the patient was never considered a suspect in any crime:
The patient, William Gray of Idaho, was driving a semi truck in Northern Utah when he was struck head-on by a man who veered into oncoming traffic on a highway in Wellsville on July 27. That driver, who died in the crash, was fleeing from the police in a high-speed chase. Utah Highway Patrol officers were responding to calls about an erratic driver, and the man, Marco Torres, 26, led police on a chase rather than get pulled over and detained.So Gray’s terrible injuries were a consequence of a police chase that he had absolutely nothing to do with. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time. According to the coverage of the arrest, Payne said that he wanted to draw blood from Gray to check for drugs in order to “protect” him in some fashion, not to punish him, and that he was ordered to go collect his blood by police in Logan.
What I see in that video is a pretty clear abuse of authority. This isn’t a moment of confusion where police are trying to control chaos. Everyone involved is calm and understands what the law is in this situation. The police are demanding this nurse perform what amounts to an illegal search and seizure and when the nurse refuses to go along with it they punish her.
Det. Payne has been taken off the team that collects blood but is still on active duty. His supervisor, who appears later to explain why her unlawful arrest was her fault, has also not been disciplined yet. All of this is being revealed thanks in part to police body cameras. This is just one more incident that convinces me body
cameras for police are a good idea. They protect police from false accusations and, as in this case, create a record when police exceed their authority.
According to Killedbypolice.net, at least 808 people have been killed by police so far this year, outpacing last year’s deaths by 20 victims.... and they ALL GET AWAY WITH IT!
Akron, Ohio police claim 17-year-old shot himself in the back of a police car
By Kevin Martinez
31 August 2017
31 August 2017
Police in Akron, Ohio, say that 17-year-old Xavier McMullen killed himself while in police custody last Friday night. McMullen died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head while in the back of a police car, the Summit County Medical Examiner announced on Monday.
Relatives of McMullen are questioning the official version of events and want to know how the boy could have had gun on him after being handcuffed and taken into custody on suspicion of armed robbery.
Wiley McMullen, Xavier’s 29-year-old brother, told Cleveland.com he was still shaken days after the shooting and wanted to know how his brother could have shot himself with his hands in cuffs behind his back.
“I don’t believe he killed himself. I can’t,” Wiley told the news site, “But maybe, if he had a gun on him, he was trying to get it off of him and while wiggling and struggling, the trigger pulled. I’d understand a gunshot wound to his back, stomach, something like that. But not the head— how is that possible?”
“Why wasn’t he patted down properly?” Wiley asked. “The cops did not do their job. I feel the cops took my brother.” He demanded answers from police officials, saying, “Enough violence is going on around us. We want the real truth, someone needs to pay the consequences. There needs to be justice.”
Akron police say that Xavier and two other young adults were arrested following an armed robbery. A man and a woman allegedly told police they were sitting in a van when three robbers approached them, showed a gun and demanded money.
Police found the suspects in a nearby house and arrested McMullen and two 18-year-old men. At a press conference on Monday, Akron Police Captain Jesse Lesser said the three suspects were placed in separate police cars while they questioned witnesses. One of the officers returned to the car to find McMullen dead with a .45 caliber gun.
None of the six officers involved have been placed on leave, according to Lesser. The police official also did not say whether officers searched McMullen before placing him in a police cruiser. He also refused to review the police department’s rules for pat-downs, saying, “It all depends on the circumstances.” He added, “It’s hard just to say, ‘every time you do it this way.’ It’s a rapidly evolving situation.”
Mentally ill Army veteran calls for help in Sunrise, Florida, SWAT shoots her dead
Police in Sunrise, Florida, shot and killed 28-year-old Army veteran Kristen Ambury after she barricaded herself in her house for more than three hours last weekend.
Police were called to the Water’s Edge apartments around 4 p.m. on Saturday after getting a call about a woman who was threatening suicide.
Veda Coleman-Wright, the spokeswoman for the Broward County Sheriff’s office, said that officers arrived on the scene to negotiate but determined that Ambury was armed and called in the SWAT team. As many as a dozen heavily armed officers arrived, leading to a tense standoff, with neighbors told to stay in their homes by police and others coming home from work denied access to the apartment complex.
Witnesses heard five or six shots. It was not clear whether Ambury had fired a weapon at officers. She died at the scene; no officers were injured.
A witness told local media how Ambury often walked her dogs throughout the complex and sometimes sat for long periods of time near the edge of a canal near her building.
Relatives told Local10 news that Ambury seemed to be under the influence of alcohol and had mental health issues. She was a U.S. Army explosive ordinance specialist and emergency medical technician who worked for the American Heart Association.
Michigan State Police trooper kills 15-year-old for riding ATV in Detroit
In a neighborhood on the east side of Detroit, on Saturday, a 15-year-old boy, Demond Grimes, was killed by a state police trooper at about 5:30 p.m.
The officer claims to have been pursuing Grimes for driving his four-wheel ATV in the street.
According to reports, the officer Tased the boy from his patrol vehicle with the window rolled down while he was driving his ATV in the street. Operating ATVs in the street is technically illegal in Detroit but commonly practiced by teenagers in neighborhoods throughout the city.
After being Tased, Demond lost control of his vehicle and crashed into the back of a pickup truck, killing him.
The officer has been suspended not for the murder of a 15-year-old child playing in his neighborhood but because it is a violation of policy for an officer to deploy a Taser from a moving vehicle.
Detroit Police Department Chief James Craig defended the officer in a press conference, saying, “In no way should this be an implication of criminality but in any incident whether it’s a Detroit Police officer, in this case a Michigan State Police officer, our actions are scrutinized.” He went on to reiterate that the opening of an investigation does not mean that the trooper’s actions were wrong or even unlawful.
While the name of the officer has yet to be released, reports have surfaced from those familiar with the case that he had been previously accused of excessive force in two separate lawsuits.
Grimes was in the ninth grade. His older sister told the Detroit Free Press that her brother had never been in trouble with law enforcement and always had good grades. “He didn’t deserve what happened to him. He was a good kid. A loving, happy kid.”
According to Killedbypolice.net, at least 808 people have been killed by police so far this year, outpacing last year’s deaths by 20 victims.
Georgia police officer is SACKED after video of him telling a nervous driver she won't be killed during a traffic stop because cops 'only shoot black people' is made public
- In July 2016, Cobb County police Lt. Greg Abbott pulled over a car with a male driver and female passenger July 2016
- A female passenger can be heard on dash-cam video saying she was scared to move her hands in order to get her cellphone
- Abbott interrupts her and says, 'But you're not black. Remember we only shoot black people'
- The officer had been placed on administrative duty pending an investigation before the police chief fired him on Thursday
- Police chief said: 'There's really no place for these types of comments in law enforcement. In no context can I tolerate this type of language.'
Cobb County police Lt. Greg Abbott (above) was fired on Thursday after he was caught on dash-cam video saying 'we only shoot black people'
The police lieutenant in Georgia who was caught on dash-cam video during a traffic stop saying 'we only shoot black people' has been fired.
Dash-cam video from a DUI traffic stop in July 2016 shows a white female passenger telling Cobb County police Lt. Greg Abbott she was scared to move her hands in order to get her cellphone because she didn't want to get shot, WSB reported.
Abbott interrupts her and says, 'But you're not black. Remember, we only shoot black people.
'All the videos you've seen, have you seen the black people get killed?'
Cobb County police chief Mike Register announced Thursday afternoon that Abbott was fired.
'There's really no place for these types of comments in law enforcement,' Register said during a news conference Thursday, WSB reported.
'In no context can I tolerate this type of language.
'I have known Lt. (Greg) Abbott for years and perceived him as honorable, but he's made a mistake. I don't know what is in his heart, but I know what came out of his mouth.
Dash-cam video from a DUI traffic stop in July 2016 shows a white female passenger telling Cobb County police Lt. Greg Abbott she was scared to move her hands in order to get her cellphone because she didn't want to get shot (above)
'We recommend that he be terminated and we are moving forward on that.'
When the video was published on Wednesday by WSB in Atlanta, Register had placed Abbott on administrative duty pending an investigation.
Register said that 'no matter what context it was said, it shouldn't have been said.'
Abbott has yet to comment on being axed from the force.
Before he was fired, Abbott's attorney, Lance LoRusso, said in a statement that Abbott was cooperating with the investigation, and that his comments were meant to 'de-escalate a situation involving an uncooperative passenger.'
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Abbott interrupts her and says, 'But you're not black. Remember, we only shoot black people.' Cobb County police chief Mike Register said Abbott was fired on Thursday over the incident
'Lt. Greg Abbott is a highly respected 25-year veteran of the Cobb County Police Department,' LoRusso said in a statement.
'He is cooperating with the department's internal investigation and will continue to do so.
'His comments must be observed in their totality to understand their context.
Abbott had served on the police force for over 25 years in Cobb County, Georgia
'He was attempting to de-escalate a situation involving an uncooperative passenger.
'In context, his comments were clearly aimed at attempting to gain compliance by using the passenger's own statements and reasoning to avoid making an arrest.'
Register said that Abbott had been a good officer and that he had not received any racial bias complaints.
'We're not making excuses. We're meeting this head-on and we're going to deal with it,' Register, who was not police chief during the time of the incident, told WSB on Wednesday.
'We are going to keep going forward to make sure we, as a police department, service the community in a most professional way -- all segments of the community.'
The attorney for the driver during the traffic stop, Suri Chadha Jimenez, said he believes the officer's response was sarcastic because the woman, 'gave him some lip,' but nonetheless said, 'it makes you cringe when you hear it. It's unacceptable.'
The charges against the driver were dropped and the charges against the female passenger in the video were resolved, Jimenz told DailyMail.com.
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Seattle police officers shot pregnant woman seven times and one of the bullets struck her unborn baby boy, autopsy reveals
- On Wednesday, attorneys representing the father of Charleena Lyles released an autopsy report on her death
- The 30-year-old woman was nearly four months pregnant on June 18 when she was shot dead by two police officers at her apartment in Seattle
- The autopsy shows that she was shot seven times by the cops - including twice in the back
- One of the bullets perforated her uterus, killing the male fetus inside
- Toxicology results showed that Lyles had no drugs or alcohol in her system
- The two officers said they shot Lyles when she lunged at them with knives
- Her father's attorneys released the report to dispel assumptions that 'she was a poor, single black woman with multiple children who must have been on drugs'
- The two officers who shot Lyles, Jason Anderson and Steven McNew, are on paid administrative leave pending the results of an internal investigation
- Lyles' family plans to sue the city over her death
Charleena Lyles (pictured) was nearly four months pregnant on June 18 when two cops shot her dead in her apartment, after she called to report a robbery
The father of a pregnant woman who was shot dead by police officers after she called to report a robbery in June has released her autopsy report.
Charleena Lyles was nearly four months pregnant on June 18 when she called police to report an Xbox stolen at her Seattle apartment.
It's still unclear how the confrontation unfolded, but in less than three minutes, the two officers opened fire on the 30-year-old mentally ill woman in front of three of her four children.
The officers, Jason Anderson and Steven McNew, said that they started shooting at Lyles when she lunged at them holding knives.
The autopsy report, released Wednesday, shows that Lyles was shot seven times, including twice in the back.
'Not one shot should have been fired, let alone seven,' lawyer Karen Koehler told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
One of the bullets perforated her uterus, striking her unborn baby boy. Both mother and son died at the hospital. The unborn baby boy would have been Lyles' fifth child.
The report also included toxicology reports, showing that Lyles didn't have alcohol or drugs in her system at the time.
An autopsy report released Wednesday shows she was shot seven times - including twice in the back
The report also included toxicology results showing she didn't have drugs or alcohol in her system at the time
Her father, Charles Lyles, told The Guardian: 'Hearing the details of the shooting just makes me feel more empty. I lost my daughter and my next grandson. I just don't have the words.'
The fact that she was shot in the back leads family members to question the officers' side of the story.
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'Did they shoot her as she fell to the ground? Was she running away?' cousin Katrina Johnson asked. 'How did she get shot in the back? I still don't know that and understand that, but any which way, it was excessive force. Seven times for her little pregnant 100-pound self was out of control.'
Koehler said that they decided to release the autopsy report to dispel the public assumptions about the case.
'If you have been reading the dialogue you might have assumed she was a poor, single black woman with multiple children who must have been on drugs, and that is a false assumption and a false narrative,' Koehler told the Seattle Times.
Jason Anderson (left) and Steven McNew (right) are the two officers who shot Lyles dead. They are on paid administrative leave pending the results of an internal investigation
Lyles struggled with mental illness and had past interactions with the police.
Just two weeks before she was fatally shot, cops responded to a domestic violence call at the house and found Lyles holding a pair of shears to one of her kids.
She allegedly talked to police about morphing into a wolf and accused them of being members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Eventually, the officers were able to persuade Lyles to drop the shears. They waited with her until her sister could arrive to take care of her kids and then took her to jail.
She was released a few days before her death and ordered to seek mental health treatment.
On the day of the fatal shooting, Lyles called police reporting a robbery at her apartment, saying that she came home and found her Xbox missing. Surveillance footage would later show that no one entered her apartment in the hours before she was shot.
Surveillance footage shows the two officers responding to Lyles' apartment after getting a report about a robbery on June 18
Less than three minutes after arriving, the cops took out their guns and started shooting
After receiving the call, one of the officers read a warning on Lyles' past behavior, saying she had been 'assaultive to officers'.
He called for backup and once the other officer arrived, they had a discussion and decided it was safe to respond since she didn't have a mental health tag on her report (even though she did indeed have one.)
When police arrived on the scene, their conversation with Lyles was at first cordial, according to audio released of the incident.
It's unclear how things escalated but Lyles eventually started yelling at the pair.
'Do it! Do it ... Are you ready? mother f*****s' she said, according to court documents.
The cops said they started shooting when she lunged at them holding one or two knives.
Lyles' one-year-old and four-year-old children were crawling nearby. Her 11-year-old son was in another room.
Lyles was pregnant with her fifth child when she was killed. Both mom and her unborn son died at the hospital
In the wake of Lyles' death, much attention has been paid to the fact that one of the officers didn't have a taser on him, as is required.
The Seattle Police Department is still investigating the deadly shooting, and both officers remain on paid administrative leave in the meantime.
Earlier this month, Lyles' family filed a claim against the city - the first step in filing a lawsuit. Ninety days after the claim is filed, the family will be able to formally sue.
The family's claim says the two officers 'lost their composure' when Lyles came at them with knives, and that they failed to order her to drop her weapons as a warning before shooting.
They also say the two cops knew about Lyles' mental illness and should have had a plan for dealing with her, as is required by the 1999 Americans with Disabilities Act.
'The police narrative is that she had a knife and they were justified in shooting her dead,' Koehler said. 'They don't want to talk about the fact that they knew she had recent mental-health issues but chose to go in without any game plan.'
Lyles struggled with mental health issues, and cops responded to her apartment just two weeks earlier, finding her there holding a pair of shears to one of her children
cameras for police are a good idea. They protect police from false accusations and, as in this case, create a record when police exceed their authority.
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