Cop roughs up and arrests Utah nurse for not obeying his illegal order to draw blood from unconscious man

From the Salt Lake Tribune:

As he stands in the hospital parking lot after the arrest, Payne says to another officer that he wonders how this event will affect an off-duty job transporting patients for an ambulance company.

“I’ll bring them all the transients and take good patients elsewhere,” Payne says.

Apparently he’s working for an outfit called Gold Cross Ambulance. Now, I gotta imagine that the very next patient who has a negative outcome in Jeff Payne’s (or any Gold Cross) ambulance is going to be asking whether that outcome was a result of the destination hospital being selected based on proximity and/or ability to help the patient, or whether patient routing was based his personal grudge.

Or, rather, the patient’s lawyer will likely be asking that question.

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