Originally Posted by Crompsin

Implied consent gone wrong. Maybe. Implied consent none-the-less.

Originally Posted by willravel

This law will come down to how the police choose to carry it out. If we get people bleeding to death (which is unlikely) it will change. If it gets belligerent drunk drivers into jail, then it's not so bad.

Originally Posted by Fotzlid

what it fails to mention is how much of a fight he was putting up or the circumstances surrounding his arrest (other than the DUI).

i've been spit on, punched and kicked by drunk people as well as being subjected to their bullshit ramblings and drunken bravado.
tough shit for him.

Originally Posted by host

It looks like a "good shoot". The lesson seems to be, "don't drink and drive". Is this what it feels like to be a conservative? My anti establishment instincts fail me, in this instance.

Originally Posted by host

dksuddeth, nothing happened when "authority" did this:

Originally Posted by host

Get used to it, or die or go to prison, trying to stop it from happening again or protesting vigorously against it. You live in a place where most are preoccupied with Nascar, Monday night football, American Idol, or Jesus and the bible, it's the land of freedom called America.

Pick your shots. After what happened at Kent State, we had a song ("four dead in Oh-High-Oh"...) and everything. It was just eight months after Woodstock. It didn't help, nothing seems to. This country is much more conservative now than it was in early May, 1970. You need to raise awareness with the most grievous abuses of authority as examples, this "damaged wrist case", is not one of them.

Originally Posted by analog

So a drunk is in a hospital, a nurse goes to get a blood sample (which is standard procedure for anyone admitted to a hospital with a medical (as in, not trauma-based) problem, let alone one with an altered level of consciousness or clearly under the influence of something), and the guy struggles so hard against his restraints that the officer must physically hold him so the nurse can do their job... and you call this "may inflict permanent physical damage"?

First of all, the officer wasn't taking blood. A nurse was. And yes, forcibly- when you're in an altered level of consciousness, medical staff has implied consent to care for you. This includes drawing blood for lab tests which can determine what, if anything, may be causing your medical problem. When you're in an altered level of consciousness, you're not competent to make your own decisions for medical care. It's a long-standing rule.

Paranoid anti-establishment conspiracy retards are the dirty cunts of the world, and that website "thenewspaper" is another in a long line of their soak-up-all-the-bullshit tampons.

If you want to latch onto the word "forcibly", knock yourself out. Yeah, it was done forcibly because the filthy fuck was drunk, had been driving drunk, and was then fighting against his restraints while a medical professional carried out their duties, despite his being a filthy fuck.

I could write another headline for this particular dirty cunt tampon of a "news" site- "EMS worker intentionally and enthusiastically stabs a woman in 4 fingers with a sharp instrument against her protests, then squeezes them vigorously so they bleed."

That would have been me taking blood sugar tests on a woman whose sugar was so low, she was completely out of her mind. She required 2 different drugs to stabilize back to normal, which was an almost sickeningly sweet and kind older southern woman.

That's exactly the type of "twisting of words" you've used to complain, once again, about the police. It's like tabloid journalism, only dumber and fueled by paranoid delusions of persecution.

The cop held his arms down- probably at the wrists, which is a very standard way to hold a person down so they can't hurt you or others, and would explain the damage to his wrists. What part of that implies a new carte blanch for cops to intentionally, permanently damage suspects? That's a whole new level of "reaching".

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Wow. How pathetically misguided and irrationally hate-filled. It's almost surprising.