{"id":64777,"date":"2017-10-12T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64777"},"modified":"2017-10-12T10:40:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T15:40:46","slug":"progress-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64777","title":{"rendered":"Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Utah cop who became internet-famous for dragging a nurse, kicking and screaming, from a hospital after she did precisely the job she was supposed to do, and was told to do by her chain of management, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/354816-utah-police-officer-who-dragged-screaming-nurse-is-fired\">is now an ex-cop<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The officer, Detective Jeff Payne, was seen on film dragging a crying nurse out of the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City after she prevented law enforcement from taking blood from an unconscious patient.<\/p>\n<p>The nurse, Alex Wubbels, told officers they needed a warrant, the patient\u2019s consent or for police to arrest the patient in order to draw blood.<\/p>\n<p>Payne told\u00a0Wubbels\u00a0he would \u201cleave with blood in vials or body in tow\u201d before placing her in handcuffs and dragging her out of the hospital.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there&#8217;s the take-away:\u00a0 if government oversteps its just authority and oppresses the living crap out of you, all you need is an epic tsunami of social-media revulsion to maybe, eventually, get some justice.<\/p>\n<p>Feeling better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah cop who became internet-famous for dragging a nurse, kicking and screaming, from a hospital after she did precisely the job she was supposed to do, and was told to do by her chain of management, is now an ex-cop: The officer, Detective Jeff Payne, was seen on film dragging a crying nurse out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256,30,286],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-amendment","category-liberty","category-police-powers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64778,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64777\/revisions\/64778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}