He also threatened to start bringing them all the transient patients as retribution.
FYI--The full body camera footage is out there now. Not just the arrest, but what happened before and after.
The officer was directed by a detective to stand down because he realized that the hospital always takes blood samples when a patient is admitted, so law enforcement would be able to get access to it regardless. For whatever reason, the officer ignored that directive and arrested the nurse anyway. He and his supervisor then spent twenty minutes trying to figure out how to get out of the situation, forgetting at various times that they were being recorded by the body camera.
These situations are never black and white. Here, though, we've reached the point where this particular officer no longer deserves the benefit of a doubt.
It would be bad enough if he was just venting, or making gallows humor. From his tone of voice, it sounded as if he was absolutely serious when he was saying it, as if he calmly describing the next step in his strategy at a halftime interview.He also threatened to start bringing them all the transient patients as retribution.
I think he and the nurse should get the death penaltyThe cop isn't going to be federally prosecuted, nor should he be.
He will be reprimanded, and possibly terminated, as he should be.
I agree, but that's well after the fact. All I'm saying is did the officer know that at the time, maybe he did.
We have the luxury of seeing things after it's all been laid out, in real time info is not always as clear.
He also threatened to start bringing them all the transient patients as retribution.