Idaho Police Department Thanks 'Heroic' Nurse For Standing Up To Utah CopsteemCreated with Sketch.

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An Idaho police office is hailing medical caretaker Alex Wubbels as a legend for facing Salt Lake City Detective Jeff Payne, who endeavored to take blood from a patient without a warrant or the patient's assent. 


That patient, it turns out, is William Gray, a save officer in Rigby, a city around 15 miles north of Idaho Falls. 


"The Rigby Police Department might want to thank the medical attendant included and healing center staff for standing firm, and ensuring Officer Gray's rights as a patient and casualty," the office said on Facebook. "Ensuring the privileges of others is really a courageous demonstration." 


Dim, who is likewise a truck driver, was gravely harmed in July when a suspect in an auto escaping police pummeled into his truck. The speculate passed on, and Gray was traveled to the University of Utah Burn Center. 


In the healing center, police endeavored to take blood from Gray, who was not apprehended and not cognizant and in this way unfit to agree to the blood draw. What's more, police did not have a warrant. 


Wubbels disclosed to Payne he couldn't draw blood under those conditions and even got other healing facility authorities on the telephone to affirm that arrangement to the analyst. 


She was captured, and in the end discharged without being charged. 


Payne is currently confronting a criminal examination. Another officer is likewise on leave as the occurrence is examined. 


The Rigby Police Department said it didn't know about the occurrence encompassing the blood draw until a week ago. 


"Remember that Officer Gray is the casualty in this terrible occasion, and that at no time was he under any doubt of wrongdoing," the division said. "As he keeps on mending, we would ask that his family be given security, regard, and petitions for proceeded with recuperation and peace."

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