The cops are getting a paid vacation and then will go back on duty.

They have video of a defenceless unarmed person who gets murdered by the police and nothing happens to the cops, evidence doesn’t mean shit.

I agree. If anything showed up in Truck Driver Gray’s blood, the police lawyer could argue that he might have avoided the collision, had he not been himself impaired. Even caffeine might imply that Gray was sleep-deprived while driving.

She was also a charge nurse I believe, so the arrest greatly disrupted the treatment of other patients in the ER at the time.

Way to absolve the officer of responsibility. Compare him to severe weather.

PTSD isn’t necessarily related to the severity of the trauma and athleticism isn’t a protection against it.

theres nothing minor about the the terror of false imprisonment.

Did you notice that in essence I wrote that if the detective and his supervisor aren’t severely punished, the nurse and truck driver need to sue.

I’m with you there. When is the last time you’ve ever seen police collect evidence to exonerate someone they are collecting it from?

And the tax payers should in turn put pressure on the fuckwad police department to clean up their act.

Comparing racial/ethnic groups to a group of people who choose a certain profession is a very shitty way to make what is essentially a sound argument. Maybe you should think a little bit about this and try again?

If they wanted to let the driver off the hook, they would have waited for the blood sample, ensuring it would come back negative.

I can only speculate here, but perhaps the officers are looking for an alternative cause for the crash. If they can prove the semi-truck driver was intoxicated, he could be blamed for the crash as opposed to the police chase being responsible. The police were looking for a way to remove blame from themselves. The…

Those people don’t know what they’re talking about. The best way for there to be no evidence of drug use is for there to be no evidence. And if Thug Cop there wanted to help a brother out, he would have told the nurse “we need to do this to protect him so we can show he was clean”.

The real explanation is they wanted…

You are correct. The outliers are good ones.

They were trying to find mitigation. If you don’t sue we don’t charge for DUI kind of thing.

Power. See how quick officer McSmalldick attacks the nurse after the person on the phone tells him he’s making a mistake? Officer McSmalldick believes he’s entitled to whatever he wants, and how dare you stand in the way.

...they wanted to help a pal out and draw blood that would prove he was clean...

If they could find anything, they could claim the truck driver was at least partially at fault.

To cover their asses over a potential unwarranted high speed chase; blame the victim, not themselves.