The best part was the female officer asking the filmer to stop filming and when he declines, she says, "okay"
Then she tries to block the angle so he holds the camera up higher ?
That cop needs to spend a year riding a desk while he reviews CDL licenses or something. It reminds me of the cop that accosted the nurse at UofU for not providing an illegal blood draw. I think he got fired for it.
He did but consider this. A twenty something year cop in salt lake did not arbitrarily just decide to do that out of the blue. This was pretty standard protocol for many agencies until it happened. He was also acting on direction from his supervisor. In the end, cooler heads could have prevailed and alternate solutions made. For one, the hospital would have already taken a sample as soon as practical for medical treatment. After the fact, those results can be subpoenaed. My point is this was not a random, rogue, illegal, or isolated incident other than to say the nurse wasn’t backing down and neither was he.
Law enforcement evolves at a fast pace and on a daily basis. That was also a aggravating factor. Years ago, blood could be taken without a warrant under the short lived evidence clause. In about the last decade, that has changed due to E-warrants generally but not always, providing a readily available solution. This also has evolved in another long standing doctrine of taking blood from an unconscious subject under the implied consent doctrine. There are still some asterisks and exceptions; for instance location, access to phone or wireless, exigency circumstances and the list goes on.
At the end of the day the cop in this particular instance, was acting in the interest of the injured party who later passed away from injury. The scope of the evidence was in the interest of the victim and not a criminal action seizure. In other words for the civil liability which would follow, are long, drawn out, and imperative so the victim at the hospital would not be hindered in civil litigation trying to monetary relief from the other party. It’s a big deal. One might say it’s a captain obvious case if you know the details of this story, but I’ve seen civil cases go completely sideways for simple stuff.
With the evolution of law enforcement you need to be quick on your feet and maintain good situational awareness to survive these pitfalls. This cop let his years of procedure take over instead of seeking an alternate remedy.
Another example of this that I’ve seen over the years is the issuance of citations. It was standing SOP that if a violator didn’t sign a citation, they went to jail. That’s how it was. That’s how it always was. As you can imagine this most often went to some physical confrontation and YouTube has hundreds of example of where it went really sour. Finally someone was able to look outside of the habitual box and say we don’t really need a signature. Now, a cite is printed and given to the violator and no paper copy ever exists for the court side. That portion remains 100% electronic. It’s weird to look back and try to understand why it wasn’t similar all along.
These are just a couple of examples. That cop messed up, but not to the level the public condemns him of. Everything is easier judged out of the moment and in hindsight, with all the details or known, or with a knowledge of partial facts and details. Look at the Challenger NASA mission. A lot of well qualified actual rocket scientists allowed a launch that now anyone including the rocket scientists ask how the hell did anyone let that happen.
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