A Salt Lake City police officer who arrested a nurse when she refused to draw blood from an unconscious patient now faces a criminal investigation.
Alex Wubbels was rushed by an officer, handcuffed and taken into custody at University of Utah hospital last month after following a hospital policy that police wanted to violate.
Body camera footage of her confrontation shows the former athlete screaming after Detective Jeff Payne targeted her for refusing to draw blood from a car accident victim who could not give consent.
Police condemned the incident after Wubbels and her legal team showed the video to the public on Thursday, and said that Payne had been suspended from the blood draw program.
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