An argument between local police and a Utah nurse defending her patient’s rights was caught on a police body camera and is now the subject of an internal investigation by the police department, The Washington Post reports. The nurse, Alex Wubbels, refused to allow Detective Jeff Payne to collect a blood sample from an unconscious patient without consent or probable cause and a warrant. The report states Wubbels was right to defend her patient’s inability to give consent, considering both Utah state law and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that “blood can only be drawn from drivers for probable cause.” Payne’s lieutenant ordered him to arrest Wubbels if she refused to let him draw a sample, which he proceeded to do.
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