Utah Nurse bullied by the police over Patient's blood

This all started around July 26, when a auto crash victim was admitted to the University of Utah Hospital burn unit in a total coma. Even though the man was not a suspect in the accident that killed the other driver. During his stay at the hospital , the police requested for his blood to be drawn but the nurse in charge refused to let that happen.

Meanwhile, Alex Wubbels who was the charge nurse in the burn unit, presented the officers with a printout of hospital policy on drawing blood and told them that their request did not meet the criteria and so will be denied. 

She made It clear that according to the Hospital’s policy, the specified police needed either a judge's order or the patients consent, or the patient needed to be under arrest, before obtaining a blood sample. “I'm just trying to do what I'm supposed to do” Wubbles said.

According to the police report, Payne reported that when he arrived to the hospital, Wubbels said he needed to get permission from the hospital administrators.

After more than an hour waiting, Payne said, he called his supervisor who advised him to arrest Wubbels that is only  if she refused to let him draw a blood sample.

"I told them that we wanted to blood sample to protect him, not punish him,

After few hours, the message left with the Salt Lake Police Association, the union representing officers, regarding Payne's status was not immediately returned.

Brown said the department has previously apologized and its "blood draw policy" has been replaced with a new one that officers are now using.

But during his statement, he never mentioned the policy that was in place at the time of Wubbels' arrest.

After the incident, Wubbels and her attorney said they have already met with the city and police department to encourage them to re-instruct their officers about the said policy.

Wubbels said the lack of "forward progress" they felt in those meetings made them to come forward this week with the body camera footage. This should never have happened and it should not happen again, "We have to have a conversation and a discussion."

"I felt obligated to release it on behalf of anyone that's ever gone through something like this" but didn't have evidence or video, Wubbels told CNN. "Just being bullied by police for any particular reason in a health care setting."

Wubbels also said she hopes to raise awareness of the policy, and that she received calls from the mayor and police chief to apologize and believed that they were open minded.