Salt Lake City Nurse Arrested for Refusing to Obey Unconstitutional Police Request
“Utah police have released a disturbing video of officers handcuffing and arresting” Alex Wubbels, a Salt Lake City nurse, “for refusing to obey a clearly unconstitutional order.” The video footage shows Detective Jeff Payne aggressively arresting Wubbels “for refusing to allow the officer to draw blood from an unconscious patient without a warrant.” Shortly after news of the incident broke, and after the disturbing footage was viewed by people across the country, Payne was suspended “from the department’s blood draw unit,” and even the city’s police chief, Mike Brown, called the footage “very alarming.” However, though Payne has been suspended from the blood draw unit, he “remains on active duty pending an inquiry.”
