I think there could be an additional point made that by arresting her, they were also removing the head nurse of the burn unit mid-shift which is a pretty serious issue. The blood draw could have waited, there was absolutely nothing urgent about it. The burn unit and all of its patients however, are pretty much in a…

Yeah, there’s exactly ONE union that Republicans like, and it’s the one that helps harass citizens and murder folks. Maybe don’t lump every other union, which conservatives are actively trying to destroy, in with police unions?

Breaking News: Payne receives Medal of Honor from President Trump.

Good, I know a bunch of nurses. They already get assaulted by patients and patients friends/family. They do not have to worry about adding police to the list.

Honest mistake. They couldn’t know better. Shit wasn’t updated. Department’s fault.

I disagree with this. Intervention by a third party would have escalated the situation in unpredictable ways (especially if the intervening party happened not to be white). It would get you arrested at best, killed by a hyper-paranoid, power-tripping, gun-carrying nutcase with the law on his side at worst.

I hate that you’re likely right. In our society, nurse Wubbles is most likely to get the result of the department taking appropriate action by suing over Detective Payne’s conduct. I share your doubt that any internal investigation will have teeth to change his behavior in the future, but a sizable settlement payment…

Everyone who didn’t try to intervene should be fired too. Why did they let this happen? Like that security guy talking on his phone - what about doing your job? You’re witnessing a nurse on the hospital you work for getting assaulted!

Because cops here believe they exist to protect each other instead of serving the public. It’s them against us so regardless of our innocence, we’re all suspects until we prove otherwise.

As-fucking-if.

They should get fired, but they won’t.

Why are US police so violent towards everybody? Are they afraid? Insecure? Misogynists? Wannabe-army? What’s wrong with them? The police in the UK would never handle a sober, non-aggressive, non-violent suspect in this manner, let alone another member of an emergency service. In the UK this would be big news, and…

Once Payne and his superior who pushed him are fired and unable to find another job, then I’ll believe in that “goodness of society”.

You people will do and say and believe anything to absolve yourselves of the harm yours have wreaked on the world, won’t you? Feel free to travel to an alternate reality where Europeans didn’t enforce their will upon the entire rest of the world and spout this drivel all you like; but you’d do well, as long as you…

But she is wrong. Saying “yes all white people” is what’s problematic in her post. In the next sentence she then backpedals to “most of you”.

I was wondering what the urgency was, as an unconscious badly burned patient is obviously going nowhere. Trying to get fellow officers out of potential trouble makes the motivation for this abuse of power clear.

Yup, Black people are hellbent on overshadowing the trials and tribulations of white people having encounters with the police. Our master plan is working! We’re getting profiled, assaulted, raped, killed, framed, and jailed at astronomically higher rates than we should considering our population numbers just like we…

well said. I also think that too many white people are isolated from this kind of feedback, so when they hear it they freak out. If you, a white person, actually have deep relationships with people of color, you will be familiar with such sentiments and understand what is actually being said and not personalize it. Or…

I feel for her, because she is clearly not politically correct—which in this context is a compliment—but the downfall of telling the unvarnished truth is a lack of diplomacy. Diplomacy exists for the sole reason of getting disagreeable people to agree on things. Brand ambassadors are named that for a reason. And in…

Yeah, I mean… She ain’t wrong. As a white dude, I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a little bit racist from time to time. We all are. You either lie to yourself about it for your own benefit or admit that no one is perfect for everyone else’s benefit.