Dash-Cam: Cop vs. EMTs

[Subdivisions]

The dash-cam video from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and EMT incident last week is now up:

http://www.news9.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?ClipID1=3862589&h1=OHP%20Trooper%20Dash%20Cam&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=453500&LaunchPageAdTag=Political&activePane=info&rnd=38440930

[BlooInBloo]

1. Citizens need to be informed to not get in the way of the cameras they have on the terroists.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

2. I don't suppose the pig noticed the car stopped on the side of the road..

... that the ambulance waited to pass before he pulled over.


Where's that 'Cartman - respect my authori-tah' gif?

[varelse]

3. What will remove this horrible rage I feel now?

I feel like killing. I hate this feeling. Can you imagine how the patient's husband must have felt?

:wow:

[krispos42]

4. What an asshole n/t

[uppityperson]

5. Cops like this do not help other police at all

[Blue Diadem]

6. What a nasty cop.

He really should lose his job over that. He hindered a patient from getting to the hospital. That poor woman suffering from heat exhaustion laying there in the back of that squad, how awful for her to hear that type of commotion.

[a la izquierda]

7. Yay, Oklahoma...

between Sally Kern, Inhofe and Coburn and now this, we´re great at making the a-hole news.

[wroberts189]

8. link to witness statement

http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/griffin/NEWS9/PDF/0905/witnessletter.pdf


full plus more links:

http://www.news9.com

[uppityperson]

9. Am glad there are cams to get this sort of bs stopped

[CreekDog]

10. Witness statement:

To Whom It May Concern:
On Sunday, May 24th, 2009, my cousin and I were coming back from the Paden Cemetery and came to Main Street. Before we got to the stop sign at 62 highway and Main Street, we saw an ambulance pass and as we got to the stop sign, we say a highway patrol pass. We turned on highway 62 going west and we saw the ambulance pulled over in front of the bank and the patrol car behind it. The officer was standing in our lane of 62 highway talking to the driver and we could not pass since they were in our lane. The other EMT was in the ambulance with the patient. He opened the door and was trying to talk to the officer. The officer then came around the ambulance shouting, "I'll arrest you for obstruction of justice", and the EMT stated, "Hey Man, we need to get her to the hospital, follow us there." By this time the lady in the ambulance family were running to see about her, and the husband was pleading with the officer to get his wife to the hospital. The officer would not pay attention to them. He, the officer kept yelling at the EMT that he was going to arrest him and then the officer pushed the EMT against the ambulance and was going to handcuff him. The EMT Never tried to strike the patrolman, he kept his hands up as if protecting his face. Then the patrolman got the EMT in a head lock. We were horrified by the patrolman's behavior. He have NO thought to the poor woman in the ambulance or her family. As the patrolman was trying to handcuff the EMT, another highway patrolman came up and began to try to calm the situation down and in our opinion the first highway patrolman acted very unprofessionally. The EMT's were trying to do their jobs, and he was keeping them from getting that poor lady to the hospital. He was flat rude and hateful to the family. We felt both EMTs tried very hard to remain professional and wanted their patient to be cared for. That first highway patrolman should be ashamed of himself. The time wasted on his actions could have been the time that meant life or death for that lady. In our eyes, the EMTs did nothing wrong and were treated very badly. He should have to publicly apologize especially to the lady and the family as well as the EMTs who were only trying to do their jobs.
Sincerly,
Diana Walkup
Peggy Skaggs