Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
There is no defending this JERK!!!! Be sure to watch the Dash Cam..... if it wasn't for the private video..... who knows what might have happenned.....
Oklahoma Highway Patrol finally releases video of trooper attack on paramedic
Update June 14: I've just published part 3 of this story, which includes a 17-minute interview with paramedic Maurice White.
Original story follows.
Recently I told you about a horrifying incident in which an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper interrupted an elderly patient's hospital run and choked the paramedic on duty in the ambulance.
Fox 23 in Tulsa had had a Freedom of Information request in for the dash cam for more than two weeks. Late last night, the OHP finally stopped stonewalling and released the trooper's video dash cam.
It's not pretty. And, a warning--there is totally unacceptable language for a family setting.
Let me walk it down for you. An ambulance, with Maurice White acting as supervisor and paramedic, is taking an elderly woman, who had collapsed, to the hospital for treatment. Her worried family follows.
Trooper Daniel Martin, who was responding to a stolen car report, came up behind the ambulance on a two-lane country road. In Oklahoma, those shoulders are notoriously tricky for even a car to pull off onto. But there's another factor involved.
As the dash cam clearly shows, a car is on the right-hand shoulder, partially obstructing the highway. Just as the highway patrol pulls up behind the ambulance, the medical unit must swing out to avoid colliding with the parked car.
Let me repeat that, because it's important: if the ambulance's driver, Paul Franks, had immediately pulled over when the racing trooper came up behind him, he would have created an accident. It is impossible to safely pull over while slamming into another vehicle.
After the ambulance gets past the parked vehicle, Franks slows and safely pulls over for the trooper. As Martin zooms by--at a speed that I would call excessive for just a stolen car report--he uses the radio to reprimand the ambulance for not pulling over.
Later in the tape, it's shown that the sheriff's department is already on scene at the stolen car incident. Martin is released from any need to be at the scene.
Then he whips around, guns his car, and goes out hunting the ambulance. When he catches up with the ambulance, what happens next is a textbook case for bad judgment and abuse of power.
More on the Net.....
I might also add that elsewhere it was noted... ... that is Oklahoma (and I would imagine almost anyplace)
"Every person who willfully delays... an emergency medical technician... in the performance of... care and treatment... is guilty of a misdemeanor. "
Oklahoma Highway Patrol finally releases video of trooper attack on paramedic
Update June 14: I've just published part 3 of this story, which includes a 17-minute interview with paramedic Maurice White.
Original story follows.
Recently I told you about a horrifying incident in which an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper interrupted an elderly patient's hospital run and choked the paramedic on duty in the ambulance.
Fox 23 in Tulsa had had a Freedom of Information request in for the dash cam for more than two weeks. Late last night, the OHP finally stopped stonewalling and released the trooper's video dash cam.
It's not pretty. And, a warning--there is totally unacceptable language for a family setting.
Let me walk it down for you. An ambulance, with Maurice White acting as supervisor and paramedic, is taking an elderly woman, who had collapsed, to the hospital for treatment. Her worried family follows.
Trooper Daniel Martin, who was responding to a stolen car report, came up behind the ambulance on a two-lane country road. In Oklahoma, those shoulders are notoriously tricky for even a car to pull off onto. But there's another factor involved.
As the dash cam clearly shows, a car is on the right-hand shoulder, partially obstructing the highway. Just as the highway patrol pulls up behind the ambulance, the medical unit must swing out to avoid colliding with the parked car.
Let me repeat that, because it's important: if the ambulance's driver, Paul Franks, had immediately pulled over when the racing trooper came up behind him, he would have created an accident. It is impossible to safely pull over while slamming into another vehicle.
After the ambulance gets past the parked vehicle, Franks slows and safely pulls over for the trooper. As Martin zooms by--at a speed that I would call excessive for just a stolen car report--he uses the radio to reprimand the ambulance for not pulling over.
Later in the tape, it's shown that the sheriff's department is already on scene at the stolen car incident. Martin is released from any need to be at the scene.
Then he whips around, guns his car, and goes out hunting the ambulance. When he catches up with the ambulance, what happens next is a textbook case for bad judgment and abuse of power.
More on the Net.....
I might also add that elsewhere it was noted... ... that is Oklahoma (and I would imagine almost anyplace)
"Every person who willfully delays... an emergency medical technician... in the performance of... care and treatment... is guilty of a misdemeanor. "
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But you did go to great lengths... you openly presented your opinion and imposed it on another member, asking him not to use the word "retard. " You could've PM'd him, expressing your offended nature, and the reasons behind it. But the fact we all have to change our mannerisms and speech because someone somewhere might be offended is, well, not something I agree with. 
Take it easy! 
