Fire And Prosecute Jackbooted Thugs V

 

So, let's recap after a long weekend:

Drop all charges against this nurse.
Done.

Fire the officer(s) who arrested her, for cause, without benefits or pension.
Working on it. Currently suspended (with pay) pending criminal investigation, at least for the two douchebadges most responsible.

Refer them for prosecution for false arrest, kidnapping, and violation of civil rights.
DA is on it.

Demote his/her/their supervisors.
Lt. Jackboots Dickhead is not suspended, but he's under a good bit of scrutiny. So no.

Make your entire department go through mandatory re-training on why this is recockulous.
Done.

Revoke all sovereign immunity, so the nurse, hospital, and all patients affected can sue the officer(s) in question, the city, and the SLPD, for whatever exorbitant civil damages multiple juries think are justified and fair. Something in the mid nine figure range looks appropriate based on the video.
Nope.

Require your mayor, your police chief, the watch commander, and the supervising sergeant(s) of the officer(s) in question make a full, forthright, rapid, and public apology, on air and in writing, to that nurse, her co-workers, the patients, hospital, staff, and citizens of SLC for this egregious violation and badge-happy horseshit.
Done, for the most part.
They all dove on this grenade with remarkable unanimity and speed.
Which bodes poorly for the responsible parties in the long run.

So far, Salt Lake City PD and city management are 3/7, with two more pending, one iffy, and no action on one item.

Not bad for getting your entire city dragged through shit on its face for the actions of two badged assholes.

So it's back to the drafting table for me.
Half-assed compliance will not be given full credit.

Oh, and extra icing on the cake:

1) Detective Jackboots' second job, driving an ambulance? The one where he was going to "bring transients to this hospital, and take his 'good patients' to other hospitals"? That ambulance company has shit-canned him as well over this incident. Karma's a bitch with sharp, pointy fangs, @$$hole.

2) Since the entire incident constitutes an illegal detention and unlawful arrest, Det. Jackboots Payne is facing an additional complication if/when this goes to prosecution:

In Utah, as in a number of other states, assault on a health care provider is chargeable as a third-degree felony too. (Under which "substantial bodily injury" is defined as "pain". Pretty sure getting manhandled and cuffed up unlawfully, based on the video evidence, supports that count.)