From Greg Bartik Chicago, Member, National Nurses United personal capacity.
A Salt Lake City union nurse was roughly arrested by a local
policeman for following hospital policy on blood draws on unconscious people. The
policeman was fired after a investigation. The settlement was for $500K. The
National Nurses United campaigned on her behalf.
It seems to me that the mayor and police chief were covering
up some larger crime the arrested policeman was trying to hide. A high speed
car accident involved the unconscious man. Illegal evidence for trial and PR? Nurses have faced years of violence in
prisons, nursing homes and hospitals without much management support.
The nurse, Alex Wubbels said she would donate some of
the money to a campaign formed to help
Utah residents obtain body camera footage of any encounter that involves them,
free of charge. Ms. Porter said her law firm, Christensen & Jensen, would
also provide free legal services to aid the effort.
“This is a small step that we can provide,” Ms. Wubbels
said. “In this day and age, if a police
force doesn’t have body cameras, that should be shocking. We all deserve to
know the truth. And the truth comes when you see the actual, raw footage — and
that’s what happened in my case.”
“These things happen
all the time,” she added, “and it’s not enough to tell your story anymore.”
This was new in terms of police violence and therefore the greater coverage.
A victory for nurses the Nurse's union.
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