Heroic police officer arrests man who rushed his wife to the hospital

[Ichirou]

I know I'm just begging to be trolled for posting this story, but wait...there's just ONE thing about the story that made me lol.

(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 another 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 chemotherapy 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 both 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 not 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 not be reached for comment Monday. But in his affidavit, in addition to saying that Wright nearly caused a collision, Daves wrote 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 not diagnosed as having had a stroke.

I at the little mention that "He scratched me with his fingernail!" "He brought her into a room without the hospital's permission!"  What a petty douchebag.

[Diunx]

lol police.

[Great Rumbler]

Thread title is a misnomer since the police officer didn't arrest the man.

[Ichirou]

It's in the fucking lede.

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.

Jesus, at least read the article before you troll, man.

[chronovore]

Coincidentally, the officer's name is "Petty Douche," and when he served in the navy, he was a Petty Officer on the USS Douche.

[Disposable White Guy]

 

[Ichirou]

I can just imagine this guy not being able to let it go.  In his head, he's like "Okay, so his wife could have been having a stroke, and he's a trained medic, bu-bu-bu he was SPEEDING, and he scratched my ARM with his FINGERNAIL, and he disrespected my authoritah!"

The husband got charged with seven felonies over this, btw.  They are:

"assault on police, disorderly conduct, reckless endangerment, felony evading arrest, registration expired and two counts of traffic signals violation"

I'm assuming the "assault on police" charge is from the fingernail scratch.  What a fucking piece of work this cop is.

[Great Rumbler]

It's in the fucking lede.

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.

Jesus, at least read the article before you troll, man.

I did. Look here:

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.

And here is his actual arrest:

ut 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.

Ichi yet again fanning the flames with false accusations.

[tehjaybo]

Oh look, another of these threads.

[Ichirou]

It's in the fucking lede.

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.

Jesus, at least read the article before you troll, man.

I did. Look here:

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.

And here is his actual arrest:

ut 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.

Ichi yet again fanning the flames with false accusations.

Guess who was the cop who filed the charges, and who's been suspended pending investigation.

Weak trolls, Great Rumbler.  The icons are not pleased.

[Great Rumbler]

If you're going to troll, Ichirou, you should at least read the article first.

[Ichirou]

The view from the hill is that you trying to take the lines I owned you with...is not working for you.

Back to bottom-feeding, Great Rumbler! I cast thee out!

[Cheebs]

Ichi what in the world happened to you and the police that lead you to being so obsessed with seeking out every bad seed there is in the police force? 

Not to say this guy would be a good guy or anything but in my life every single police officer I have ever met has been very nice and helpful.

[lennedsay]

I remember a story similar. Guy got pulled over for rolling a stop sign. Family members took his wife in while he was detained for a long time by the cop. I think his wife died while he was out there. I wish I could remember the whole story, but the whole thing was overshadowed with the fact the people were black and the cop wasn't.

[Beezy]

I remember a story similar. Guy got pulled over for rolling a stop sign. Family members took his wife in while he was detained for a long time by the cop. I think his wife died while he was out there. I wish I could remember the whole story, but the whole thing was overshadowed with the fact the people were black and the cop wasn't.

Yeah, I remember that shit. There was a video for it too.

[Phoenix Dark]

Are we supposed to be surprised that sheltered whitey with money, Cheebs, has only had good experiences with police?

 

I've been stopped by the police a few times, only once for a valid reason - I had my license plate, and was just coming from the secretary of state with a new one in my car when I was pulled over. In other cases it was blatantly obvious I was being profiled

[Great Rumbler]

In Ichi's world you can break any law and not get in trouble as long as it's an emergency.

[Smooth Groove]

Are we supposed to be surprised that sheltered whitey with money, Cheebs, has only had good experiences with police?

 

I've been stopped by the police a few times, only once for a valid reason - I had my license plate, and was just coming from the secretary of state with a new one in my car when I was pulled over. In other cases it was blatantly obvious I was being profiled

Did they suspect you of holding your fat white dates against their wills?

[Cheebs]

Are we supposed to be surprised that sheltered whitey with money, Cheebs, has only had good experiences with police?

A few months ago I kept being followed to my car after class (all the masters classes are at night so I get out after 9) at the business college which as PD knows has lots of druggie homeless types around it (the business college is off main campus). One dude started every night begging for money but I just ignored him but he got more and more insistent basically staking me so I started yelling at him I wasn't going to give him anything to leave me alone and it got to the point he was every night chasing after my car hitting on the windows as I was pulling out.  I was getting tired of it so one night I noticed a cop car driving by as the dude was following me once again so I went over it and pointed him out to the cop and the cop got out and started screaming at the guy saying he was going to bring him in if he ever saw him around again and so he got scared and ran off and I never saw him again. The cop stopped me like a week later to say the dude had an arrest warrant out on him and they arrested him and thanked me for pointing the guy out to him. 

This was in your beloved Ypsi PD like a block or so from your house.

[Saint Cornelius]

In Ichi's world you can break any law and not get in trouble as long as it's an emergency.

Well he is Pres. Soetoro after all

[FatalT]

In Ichi's world you can break any law and not get in trouble as long as it's an emergency.

"Driver kills three children in a frantic rush to get his pregnant wife to the hospital, no charges pressed"

[Phoenix Dark]

Are we supposed to be surprised that sheltered whitey with money, Cheebs, has only had good experiences with police?

 

I've been stopped by the police a few times, only once for a valid reason - I had my license plate, and was just coming from the secretary of state with a new one in my car when I was pulled over. In other cases it was blatantly obvious I was being profiled

Did they suspect you of holding your fat white dates against their wills?

Nah

-was driving my dad's PT cruiser with the top down, which wasn't even my idea; the damn thing was stuck so I couldn't put it back up. Got stopped in route to doing a drop at the bank from his office. So the cop was wondering why I had a couple thousand dollars in a bag, going to the bank smh

-was parked on campus one time late at night, like around midnight. I was walking from the library to my car when I a cop rolled up on me from nowhere and asked who I was/what I was doing/etc. I didn't have my backpack on, but I was carrying a pretty big fucking text book in my hand.

-walking home from library to downtown Ypsilanti around 10pm, same situation but no book

-pulled over after dropping my brother off for a birthday party in a city that's like 95% white (Saline).

etc

[Cheebs]

Saline! That's where my grandparents live. 

[Mandark]

Oh look, another of these threads.

Sure seems like these could be consolidated into one topic without losing much.

[TripleA]

Both parties were doing their job.

[Ichirou]

In Ichi's world you can break any law and not get in trouble as long as it's an emergency.

In Great Rumbler's world, accidentally scratching someone with your fingernail while you're trying to pick your ailing wife from your car qualifies as assault on the police.

BTW, yes, there are exceptions.  Why do you think ambulances and firefighter trucks can run red lights, dude?  You're being so willfully obtuse here, it's beyond clear you're merely trolling.  Pathetic.

[Great Rumbler]

In Ichi's world you can break any law and not get in trouble as long as it's an emergency.

In Great Rumbler's world, accidentally scratching someone with your fingernail while you're trying to pick your ailing wife from your car qualifies as assault on the police.

BTW, yes, there are exceptions.  Why do you think ambulances and firefighter trucks can run red lights, dude?  You're being so willfully obtuse here, it's beyond clear you're merely trolling.  Pathetic.

An ambulance or firetruck being driven by a paramedic or firefighter is different from you driving the family car, I hope you can appreciate the difference there.

[Ichirou]

The man was a trained medic and it was an emergency.

BTW, just read that all charges were dropped, so obviously the state of Tennessee agrees with me.

[Great Rumbler]

BTW, just read that all charges were dropped, so obviously the state of Tennessee agrees with me.

Well thank God you made this thread in time.

[Ichirou]

Great Rumbler annihilated.  Don't worry, you'll find other posts of mine to troll eventually.  You folks always do.

[fistfulofmetal]

A stroked out wife doesn't give him the right to break the law.

[Ichirou]

A stroked out wife doesn't give him the right to break the law.

You're right, he should've just waited and hoped she wouldn't die.

I'd hate to be the person married to you.  Imagine if your wife got in a serious accident, she's bleeding out, but the light is red.

"H-h-hurry, honey...I don't think...I can last much longer..."
"The light is red, baby gurl, I can't do anything till it changes, I have no right to break the law!"

P.S. Did you miss the part where all the charges got dismissed and the cop got suspended?  I mean, it's sad how you people actually completely ignore facts just to troll me in hopes of impressing Boogie and Willco.  Just pathetic.

[MCD]

[fistfulofmetal]

I'd hate to be the person married to you.  Imagine if your wife got in a serious accident, she's bleeding out, but the light is red.

"H-h-hurry, honey...I don't think...I can last much longer..."
"The light is red, baby gurl, I can't do anything till it changes, I have no right to break the law!"

Jokes on you Ichi, I don't know how to drive.

[Great Rumbler]

A stroked out wife doesn't give him the right to break the law.

You're right, he should've just waited and hoped she wouldn't die.

An ambulance is basically a mobile hospital and paramedics can begin providing care even before the patient arrives at the hospital, that's basically why ambulances exist in the first place. That and putting an experienced driver in charge of a vehicle with lights and sirens to warn other drivers to get out of the way while the patient is being rushed to the hospital.

[Ichirou]

Again, the man was a trained medic.  An ambulance would have taken twenty to thirty minutes to arrive.

Honestly, I'm not even going to bother with this anymore.  Your argument makes no sense and not even the state of Tennessee agrees with it (charges dropped, officer suspended).

(this was directed at Great Rumbler, not the islamofascist)

[Great Rumbler]

Again, the man was a trained medic.  An ambulance would have taken twenty to thirty minutes to arrive.

1. He was driving the family car, which is not meant to induce people to pull over to the side of the road when it speeds by.

2. Presumable the "20 to the 30 minutes" is also the time it took him to get to the hospital. In that case, the paramedics would have begun treating his wife in the ambulance in roughly the same amount of time as it would have taken him to get to the hospital, presuming that he didn't cause a wreck along the way while flashing his lights, honking his horn, speeding through city streets, and driving through red lights.

[BlueTsunami]

Making an all purpose "Ichi baits Boogie Thread" would save a lot of time here on the forum. 

Here's a real life account of Ichi's final troll on Boogie

[youtube=560,345]nrI7QUJfkvI[/youtube]

[Dickie Dee]

A stroked out wife doesn't give him the right to break the law.

You're right, he should've just waited and hoped she wouldn't die.

I'd hate to be the person married to you.  Imagine if your wife got in a serious accident, she's bleeding out, but the light is red.

fist would just give her a creamsicle and put the barbie dream car back into the van. lesson learned by all

[Dickie Dee]

A stroked out wife doesn't give him the right to break the law.

You're right, he should've just waited and hoped she wouldn't die.

An ambulance is basically a mobile hospital and paramedics can begin providing care even before the patient arrives at the hospital, that's basically why ambulances exist in the first place. That and putting an experienced driver in charge of a vehicle with lights and sirens to warn other drivers to get out of the way while the patient is being rushed to the hospital.

...and you really believe this was the judgment call the officer was making?

[Ichirou]

Again, the man was a trained medic.  An ambulance would have taken twenty to thirty minutes to arrive.

1. He was driving the family car, which is not meant to induce people to pull over to the side of the road when it speeds by.

2. Presumable the "20 to the 30 minutes" is also the time it took him to get to the hospital. In that case, the paramedics would have begun treating his wife in the ambulance in roughly the same amount of time as it would have taken him to get to the hospital, presuming that he didn't cause a wreck along the way while flashing his lights, honking his horn, speeding through city streets, and driving through red lights.

Again, the man was a TRAINED MEDIC.  Anything paramedics could've done, he would've done too.  I trust his judgment when it comes to his wife, especially considering he best knew his wife's medical history.

He was also driving the family car with emergency blinkers on and blowing his horn.

Honestly, I give up.  Can't believe you guys are actually taking the cop's side after he charged the guy with assault for accidentally scratching his arm with a fingernail as he took his wife out of the car.

[Great Rumbler]

So he was able to provide her with medical care while driving his care AND he convinced every other driver he came across to immediately slow down and pull over when he went by? This guy is some kind of man!

[Flannel Boy]

A stroked out wife doesn't give him the right to break the law.

Yes it does--it's called the "necessity defense." The husband was avoiding a significant risk of harm to his wife and there were no adequate lawful means to escape the harm. The harm avoided was greater than the harm caused by breaking traffic laws.

Jokes on you Ichi, I don't know how to drive.

So . . . who do you get to drive the van while you hold the candy?

2. Presumable the "20 to the 30 minutes" is also the time it took him to get to the hospital. In that case, the paramedics would have begun treating his wife in the ambulance in roughly the same amount of time as it would have taken him to get to the hospital, presuming that he didn't cause a wreck along the way while flashing his lights, honking his horn, speeding through city streets, and driving through red lights.

Certain clot busting drugs need to be administered to stroke victims within a very short window. When my father had his second stroke, he was not given this by the paramedics. It was up to the doctors at the hospital to determine whether he could be given the drug based on the type of stroke he suffered and the time-period that had elapsed (too much time had passed by).

[AdmiralViscen]

Guy > Cop

It breaks my heart to maybe potentially disagree with Willco and Boogie if they even bother with this shit.

[Ichirou]

Guy > Cop

It breaks my heart to maybe potentially disagree with Willco and Boogie if they even bother with this shit.

Admiral Viscen

A stroked out wife doesn't give him the right to break the law.

Yes it does--it's called the "necessity defense." The husband was avoiding a significant risk of harm to his wife and there were no adequate lawful means to escape the harm. The harm avoided was greater than the harm caused by breaking traffic laws.

Malek

You guys have proven you'e far better people than me by ignoring your dislike of me to point out the facts of the case.

[Diunx]

Seriously how can anyone defend the cop in this situation?

[BlueTsunami]

The dude should have kept a clear head, heeded traffic lights and trimmed his nails Officer is totally in the right.

[Dickie Dee]

Malek turns it up, brings the noise

[Smooth Groove]

LOL @ the cop making such a big fuss when he himself, like all cops, has casually violated traffic laws countless times, simply because he could.  This disgusting POS has no right to hold a gun. 

[brawndolicious]

Oh look, another of these threads.

Sure seems like these could be consolidated into one topic without losing much.

I completely disagree.  He claims to believe that cops are systematically corrupt, uneducated, etc and he makes a thread about this?  Where the cop in question gets disciplined and the charges against the medic dude are dropped?  I can't believe he has any interest in getting  a real debate going on.  Making a general debate thread would probably be worse than the Ron Paul shitheap.

[Ichirou]

Seriously how can anyone defend the cop in this situation?

I honestly believe the people defending the cop are trying to get props from Willco or Boogie.  Funny thing is, I bet Boogie would say the guy was in the right in this case and the cop was wrong, facts given being what they are.