Side By Side Video: Cop Vs. Paramedic

KTUL News Channel 8 in Tulsa has put the dashboard camera video side by side with the video taken by the ambulance patient's son to see if the comparison reveals anything new.

One thing the dashboard camera reveals is that the ambulance did in fact pull over, something Trooper Martin has insisted never happened, yet it's right there on tape. The ambulance moves to avoid hitting a car that pulled over, then the ambulance pulls over. Trooper Martin however goes to the call he was on, and then returns to the ambulance to attack the paramedic.

The side by side video is at the end of the clip.

KTUL:

"In it, we see the trooper first approach the ambulance while they're driving up a hill. As a car pulls over, the ambulance adjusts to avoid it, then, 5 seconds later, the ambulance brake lights go on as it pulls over also. The trooper then proceeds to his destination, sees that he's not needed and proceeds to go after the ambulance.

Trooper: "You wanna go ahead and pull over to the side of the road when there's an emergency vehicle behind you?"

Maurice White: "You ran up on us too quickly."

Trooper: "I did not run up on you quickly buddy. You better get back in that ambulance before you get your butt to jail now!"

The ambulance did not have is emergency lights running, but even after the paramedics inform the trooper of the patient they have he tries to arrest the EMT for obstruction.

White: "I've got a patient."

Trooper: "Turn around!"

White: "I've got a patient."

Things get so bad, one family member asks someone to call the cops.

It's shortly after this first scuffle, that the man with the cell phone hits record, had he not, the entire sequence of the trooper's hand medic's throat wouldn't have been recorded since it was out of view of the dash cam."



Even if Paramedic White gave Trooper Martin the finger, which both paramedic's claim he did not, it is not illegal to give anyone, including a police officer, the finger. It's rude and inappropriate, but not illegal. It also does not warrant a police officer going after an ambulance a second time, attacking a paramedic while a patient is inside the vehicle, and attempting to arrest the paramedic. Trooper Martin needs to be fired and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Behavior like this makes being a police officer more difficult for all cops. Instead of protecting scumbags like Trooper Martin, other cops should push for them to be fired. Why would they want their co-workers making things worse? That's all they are, it's a damn job, an important one, a crucial one, but it's just a job, not a badge with a right to act like God.

Police and politicians are not above the law.

Full video and coverage of this story is in a previous post I made here. And other video's of police brutality can be found by clicking on the Police Brutality tag below.