“I can’t breathe!”

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"Unfairly and improperly made pariahs"?

Because the bodycam footage shows your officers were asshats and weren't following procedure?

Whatever.

It's incidents like this that give the public a terrible impression of LEO, especially when the union tries to make the officers out to be the victims here.  SMFH.

Maybe some closure:

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900003222/there-will-be-no-lawsuit-nurse-reaches-settlement-with-salt-lake-university-of-utah.html

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That's really F'd up that a hospital has to protect its nursing staff from police officers.

Hospitals Now Have to Train to Keep ICE Agents Out of Their Buildings

Workers in California hospitals regularly have emergency preparedness drills for earthquakes, fires, actives shooters. Now, they are having to prepare for immigration raids.
Staff members at the St. John's Well Child & Family Center in South Los Angeles recently had to learn how to physically block immigration agents from entering the medical center.

During a training last month, staffers learned how to read an Immigration and Customs Enforcement warrant and how to "link arms outside the clinic door to block agents from entering," according to a Los Angeles Times report published Friday.

In previous years, ICE avoided arrests at medical facilities because they were considered "sensitive locations" that required approvals from agency directors. But since President Donald Trump took office, there have been an increasing number of immigration-related arrests at sensitive locations like courthouses and hospitals.
https://splinternews.com/hospitals-now-have-to-train-to-keep-ice-agents-out-of-t-1825048010

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Hospitals Now Have to Train to Keep ICE Agents Out of Their Buildings



"link arms outside the clinic door to block agents from entering,"


https://splinternews.com/hospitals-now-have-to-train-to-keep-ice-agents-out-of-t-1825048010

That would seem a good way to get a beating or shot by some over zealous agents

[TeeDub]

That would seem a good way to get a beating or shot by some over zealous agents

Shouldn't that also open themselves and the hospital to federal charges?  Something like impeding or obstructing?

[patric]

Shouldn't that also open themselves and the hospital to federal charges?  Something like impeding or obstructing?

Not if this is any indication:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/us/utah-nurse-settlement.html

I like how she gave the settlement to charities.


Doubtful this guy will do the same:

Former Detective Jeff Payne isn't sorry for arresting Alex Wubbels and he plans to sue for $1.5 million
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/11/06/former-detective-jeff/