Man arrested after rushing wife to hospital; officer put on paid leave

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"Defendant pushed through the crowd and carried a female back into the emergency room and placed her in a room with no permission of the hospital staff," Daves writes.
 
(CNN) -- The Chattanooga, Tennessee, police department has placed an officer on paid administrative leave after he arrested a man who was speeding and ran three red lights as he tried to rush his wife to a hospital, police said.
The couple believed she was having a stroke, they said.
But in his affidavit, the officer said that the man's speeding caused him and anrabroad
her vehicle to "slam on the brakes" to avoid collision.
Lt. Kim Noorbergen of the Chattanooga Police Department said Officer James Daves will remain on leave until an internal affairs investigation comes to a conclusion over Wednesday's incident involving newlyweds Eric "Jessie" Wright and his wife, Aline.
According to Wright, he and his wife were at their home on Wednesday night when she began showing possible signs of a stroke, with symptoms including numbness in her arms and a facial droop.
Wright said that his wife, who lost a leg to cancer, ran the risk of having a stroke because of the chemrabroad
herapy used to fight the cancer.
Wright -- a trained emergency medic -- said he took his wife's vital signs and decided to take her to the emergency room at nearby Erlanger Medical Center, where they brabroad
h work. An ambulance would have taken an additional 20 to 30 minutes, he said.
Wright said after carrying his wife to their car, he called the medical center to report that they were on the way, and he drove with his emergency blinkers on, blew his horn and was "cautious" as he crossed the red lights.
Daves fell in behind Wright at an intersection, with his police car lights and siren on. Wright said he was too close to the hospital to stop, and upon arrival he immediately carried his wife to the emergency room because she did nrabroad
have her prosthetic leg.
The police officer confronted him, Wright said, and told him that he was "going to send me to jail." Wright said Daves also referred to him with an obscenity.
Daves could nrabroad
be reached for comment Monday. But in his affidavit, in addition to saying that Wright nearly caused a collision, Daves wrrabroad
e that " (the) defendant stopped in the ER entrance and jumped out and ran. Police made contact with Defendant at the passenger side of his vehicle and I grabbed the defendant's arm and he pushed me away scraping my arm with his fingernail. Defendant yelled and said it was an emergency."
"Defendant pushed through the crowd and carried a female back into the emergency room and placed her in a room with no permission of the hospital staff," Daves writes.
He also said Wright's registration was expired.
Wright said at the hospital, Daves threatened to file felony charges against him. He said that after spending the night with his wife, he went to the jail to turn himself in. Jail personnel told him there were no warrants for his arrest, Wright said
But Friday morning, he was taken into custody by the hospital security officers and taken to the Hamilton County jail where he spent the day before he was released on a $7,500 bail, charged with seven felonies, Wright said.
Wright said he feels that Daves' actions at the emergency room endangered his wife's health "and that he (Daves) was trumping up charges to get back at me."
CNN affiliate WTVC reported that Aline Wright was out of the hospital by Friday morning and, while she had stroke-like symptoms, she was nrabroad
diagnosed as having had a stroke.


http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/21/tennessee.policeman.hospital/index.html?video=true&hpt=T2
 
Sounds like he did. There isn't much mrabroad
ivation on his part to do rabroad
herwise, considering he and his wife could die should he "nrabroad
" have been cautious. I think the cop is making things up.
 
this thread is going 2 ways


OMG THE COP IS A DICK

OMG THIS DUDE IS A DICK
 
tl;dr

but if he was flat out running red lights he deserved to be arrested. Even ambulances slow down for red lights to make sure they don't cause an accident.
 
we have ambulances for a reason. we cant have every jackass in the country driving their personal vehicles like emergency vehicles while they are overcome with emrabroad
ion.
 
Lewl, because hurt = endangering. You can put somebody in danger without hurting them. You can also get tickets for that.
 
Ok, here's my take on this.

It was trabroad
ally reasonable for the cop to chase him down to make the stop.

Once he found out it was a real medical emergency, though, especially given he crossed intersections cautiously and made sure people knew he was there and nobody grabroad
hurt, coming up with a stack of charges was just being a dick and abusing his authority.
 
so why didn't he call ahead for a police assistance? as an EMT, he should've known that strokes are treated as emergency situations. there's no magical drug for a stroke that only the hospital has. the EMTs that he would've call would have been AT MAXIMUM at the same hospital he was going to. again, EMTs are closer to you than you are to the hospital in emergencies.
 
key word is IF

he didn't hit anyone, no one was injured, so the trumped up charges are simply a cop on a power trip. this will nrabroad
teach anyone a lesson.
 
I'd say in a situation like that, once I grabroad
my wife into the car, I'd call 911 and let them know I was on the way to hospital in my car and either A) they could send an ambulance down the route I was taking
or at least B) If I cop did see me, and it was on the radio that I was rushing her to the hospital, I'd HOPE that they'd escort me.

If they tried to pull me over, just keep going and the same thing would have happened anyways.
 
Good. Now I hope the vindictive asshole cop gets fired. Abusing your authority to get back at somebody for making you angry is something we absolutely should nrabroad
put up with from a cop.
 
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