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A lousy situation. I wish the cop could have ended up hospitalized instead.

This whole thing should have ended when he went to the courthouse. At that point, he should've had the ability to either pay his fines or turn himself in to sit them out. That's how it is in Texas anyway.

Ridiculous. I thought idiots like that were supposed to be rejected from the force. :rolleyes:

Another "shocking" news story. Big surprise.

Wow. Everyday I hear about an officer screwing something up. Nice to see where our taxes are going

I can't stand jobsworths like that. The policeman could have easily thought "Okay, this guy's wife appears to be seriously ill and in need of urgent medical attention. I'm going to cut him some slack"

To serve and protect.

Yeah.

Shouldn't he have called an ambulance? (I don't know the response times, over here but I think it is usually about 5 minutes so the ambulance is most of the time the faster option. Britain does have a higher population density than the US so IDK). I am also not sure not stopping was a good idea as the police tend to be fairly good at stopping you (Stingers etc).


But the policeman didn't do the good thing, which was to talk to the guy after he sorted his wife out :shrug:

Another fine example of a stupid cop.

Damn, he even served in Iraq!

Veterans don't get appreciated :sadvaultboy:

I read about a similar story in Texas when a football player with the Cowboys was rushing his wife to the hospital as her mother was there dying (and she had received a call from the hospital to get down there). He drove too fast and had a cop in pursuit. Once at the hospital the wife ran in and the cop stopped the guy and was arresting him while totally ignoring the story. A nurse came out to vouch for him, but the cop didn't care. He was arrested and his mother in law died (at least his wife got to see her for a short time). Needless to say it was a public relations nightmare for the Dallas police department (since he could afford a good attorney and there was tons of publicity since he was a professional athlete). Hopefully the Chattanooga PD suffers the same fate.

Woah, hold your horses!

First, whether or not you are guilty of committing a crime is not based on how admirable a person you generally are. It's not like war veterans get an almighty "Can never commit a crime ever again!"-card to flash to the police whenever they see them. Any such information is entirely irrelevant.

Second, how about we give the policeman the benefit of the doubt here; the article is completely onesided and clearly biased. If you want to assume the role of a judge, which you really have no right to do, you should at least know all the facts before passing judgement.

Third, why don't we just wait for an official verdict before we decide who was in the right on this one? You read one single article on the internet, and suddenly you are wishing bodily harm on someone you don't know anything about whatsoever.

Stupid, stupid cop.

If I saw a man rushing a left-leg amputee into an Emergency Room, I wouldn't have followed him the whole way to give him a ticket about a red light. Of course, since when has life been more important than fines in the government?

*Sigh* Rant.

First off, Cops do this sort of thing because of a little thing known as a "quota". And with this quota, the cops must reach a certain limit of tickets, arrests, and other things. To make this quota. When they make this quota, they get a little pay bump, and if they don't make this quota, they sit at their desk and watch while the others get their pay bump.

Now, it's not all that uncommon here in LA, to see cops screwing up the system for their own benefit, (which by reading that article, it seems he was doing.) But you're honestly going to take the side of a cop, who was clearly told the man's wife was having a stroke, and was already crippled and the man didn't have time to talk about some lousy ticket? Cops are always trying to make a quota, and if it involves a red light, they don't care, they'll press it. This cop did, and look what happened, it caused more problems for the cops than the cop probably expected it to do. The cop was in the wrong, article or no article. It's inexcusable to try and arrest someone for a stupid little light violation, when they're in an emergency situation.

http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12673455

Police are going to get a PR black eye and lawsuit over this one.

The husband had the ability to call the hospital and alert them, but not to call 911 and relay to the police his vehicle description and why he was reckelessly endangering other drivers and pedestrians along the way?
Looks to me like he panicked . I agree, I would have called 911 and let them know I was en route. I also would have pulled over and explained to the cop. Cop could have gotten there much, much faster. Treatment would also have been faster, emergency responders have their cases immediately given priority. I know firsthand, been in an ambulance many times. Police are considered emergency responders.
He got off lucky, he could have gotten into an accident running one of those red lights, and killed someone else, or himself, including further complicating his wife's condition.
Something is not right, I haven't heard the cops' side of the story.

Id have done the same thing.

I fail to see why it would have been detremential for the wife to have ridden an ambulance. Where treatment would have began immediately.
Was it control issues with the groom? Does he not realize that panic and inability to trust other medical professionals? He wasn't in the right frame of mind. That could have had even more serious consequences.
This didn't have a [censored] thing to do with quota.
Also something I find susupicious is how the little bit of cops story and the grooms story differ upon arrival to hospital.
I'd like to see the hospitals side of it.

Usually when something serious like that is happening, you don't have time to think of any situations, besides the one your in. And that situation your in, usually involves you, the person or persons involved, and getting to where you need to go. Depending on the severity of the problem, sometimes there's no time to call for an ambulance, and or any sort of help. So you have to take it upon yourself to get person or persons to said hospital or where ever because it's the quickest way.

Granted, the husband should have had his wife in an ambulance.

That doesn't excuse the cop's behavior, however.

the dude should have just called the ambulance. paramedics know how to handle stress going into this. he probably did more harm than good.

Something could have happened, but it didnt. He didnt kill anyone or injure anyone. All that happened was a policeman being a prat. Pratofficers are extremely common where I live.

He was a medic in Iraq, and seeing first hand experience what they go through, it's nerve racking in it's own right. Specially when under fire which 99% of EMTs aren't when getting someone stable or into an ambulance. I think he knew how to handle the stress.

The fact that this happened at all is stunning due to the sheer amount of stupidity. The fact that it happened in my hometown both enrages me and causes me to be ashamed to call this city my home. Why on earth would you stop someone from getting to a hospital? That's simply put idiotic.