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As a matter of fact, I think everyone in the OP could've benefited from a little "people training" - even if he was extremely intoxicated, it is very possible that they could've civilly convinced him to concede.
"This is just something we have to do, it'll get you out of here faster..
"We're doing this for your safety and ours.. don't you want to be safe?
"If you let us take your blood, we'll stop bugging you!"
"Now we understand that you might be upset at us, but do you really want to hurt this young lady drawing your blood?"
"You don't seem like a violent person. Do you really want to be violent? Maybe we misjudged you?"
Etc, etc. There's a billion ways to diffuse a situtation without violently holding someone down. And if they took him to the hospital, they had plenty of time to use those techniques.
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sometimes those tactics work. sometimes they dont. when they dont, we do what we have to to get the job done. personally, i'm not going to waste a lot of time trying to convice someone who is in police custody for DUI that they should give up the labs when i probably have sick people that need to be tended to.