SLC mayor, police chief apologize for officer who arrested nurse; criminal investigation to...

This kind of perp gives all LEOs a bad name. Esp in this day and age there is no room or place anywhere for an individual like that in any uniform.

She's said she doesn't plan to sue, for now. I don't know enough to say but have heard that a requirement for consent or similar has been upheld by SCOTUS. I understand their concerns regarding barriers to doing their job, but the nurse stood to lose a lot if she gave in. They also had a standing agreement that the PD had signed on to. If she'd given the sample and the man sued, the hospital would have likely abandoned her for not following protocol. Besides loss of job, add potential loss of license and/or lawsuit and/or fines. It was a time for cool heads and what was the rush? Call for supervisors and let them hash it out. The man was in the burn unit and unconscious so he wasn't going anywhere. Any suspected meds in his system would not dissipate in the extra minutes it would have taken to do it right. They had previously drawn blood so the detective could have gotten a warrant telephonically and obtained some of that blood without even drawing any more. He had likely been administered pain meds anyway, so any sample at that point was invalid. It seemed like a power struggle that ended badly to me. Trying to hammer a square peg into a round hole.

Payne's "breaking point" ---- when the higher-up on the phone told him he was both wrong to blame the messenger (the nurse) and "was making a big mistake" about the law. That was the last straw for his ego, so he took out his frustration by frightening the nurse with physical intimidation while saying she was under arrest.