Comments on: Paramedic: Officer Was In "State Of Rage"

Ambulance Medic In Scuffle On Way To Hospital Says Trooper Had "Total Disregard" For Patient

[ToolMangler1]

by ka4993-545 June 20, 2009 12:16 PM PDT
The ambulance driver broke the law by failing to yield. The rules of the road apply to every emergency vehicle not actively displaying emergency lighting. If the ambulance had been on an emergent call, lights and sirens would have been running. They were simply transporting a patient, which is 99% of what ambulance companies do. Additionally, it is absolutely ridiculous that a professional emergency worker would not yield to an emergency vehicle which actually is responding to an EMERGENCY call with the requisite lights and siren activated. Those of you expressing outrage about the viability of the stop are barking up the wrong tree.




If you saw the video, it should be clear even to 'you' that the Ambulance was going by a car that had pulled part way off the road to let him by. The EMS vehicle pulled back across the white/yellow line once it was past the car that had stopped. That is when the Cop lost it and decided to pull him over. Watch the videos and learn...

[cregis]

I sided with the officer who stopped the 72 year old witch, but can't side with this officer. He obviously had a power trip going on. What happened to the backup he was hurrying to provide? Wasn't he needed elsewhere? His superiors should certainly question his judgment.

[ka4993-545]

The ambulance driver broke the law by failing to yield. The rules of the road apply to every emergency vehicle not actively displaying emergency lighting. If the ambulance had been on an emergent call, lights and sirens would have been running. They were simply transporting a patient, which is 99% of what ambulance companies do. Additionally, it is absolutely ridiculous that a professional emergency worker would not yield to an emergency vehicle which actually is responding to an EMERGENCY call with the requisite lights and siren activated. Those of you expressing outrage about the viability of the stop are barking up the wrong tree.

Having said that, the officers behavior was out of control during his contact with the medics. He simply could have handled the contact in a professional manner, allowed the medic to make an ass of himself which he was more than prepared to do, and issued the ambulance driver a much needed citation. The officer instead created yet another situation where uninformed idiots think they have substantial ground to be outraged at the police.

[cremc-ss]

I thought a life was more important than getting a thief or etc!

[vamphyri13131313]

Why does someone always have to try to pull the race card? Why do people like you insist on keeping race problems going in everything? I guess you had nothing pertinent to say but wanted to see your name on here.

[vamphyri13131313]

Did you really just say that Oklahoma is in the South? When did they move it?

[vamphyri13131313]

Sorry, clicked on the wrong one, lol.

[vamphyri13131313]

Careful, your ignorance is showing.

[vamphyri13131313]

Did you really just say that Oklahoma is in the south? Woe! They must have moved it.

[angel1275]

Ok, why did the Paramedic even get out of the back of the ambulance with a patient in the back. In my State that is abandonment. I worked on an ambulance for years, and if we had a patient in the condition we would have responded lights and sirens to the hospital so that the patient would get treated ASAP. Yes the cop was a little overbearing, but the Paramedic abandoned his patient by getting out of the back of the ambulance. The cop wanted to speak to the driver not the guy in the back.

[cjstallworth4]

angel...."the cop was a little overbearing"....you've got to be kidding me! Overbearing and physically assaulting someone are in two different leagues.
I can understand what you are saying about abandonment, but I wouldn't know. It STILL DOESN'T JUSTIFY the cops "overbearing"...as you say!