Oklahoma Highway Patrol fights and chokes an EMT on an emergency call

dash cam and cell phone footage combined:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiNLmWGc31w

update: 6/17/09


White told Early Show co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez he got involved because the driver had an "emergency."

"But once confronted with the situation," White said, "there was no way with the patient and the unit, could I allow my driver to spend 20 minutes with the trooper discussing a possible ticket."

White told Rodriguez Martin was in "a state of rage from the beginning."

"And even after being informed that we had a patient," White said, "there was total disregard. So he started in a state of rage and simply escalated from that point."

White added he repeatedly told the trooper he had a patient in the ambulance, and the patients family members also joined in, saying that their relative needed to get to the hospital.

White said he would like to see the trooper fired. White told Rodriguez that based on statements, Martin and his superiors dont think Martin did anything wrong.

"This trooper still doesn't understand he's not omnipotent," O'Carroll told CBS News. "He could no more tell Maurice to stop taking a woman to hospital than he could tell a pilot to run a jetliner into the ocean."

O'Carroll told CBS News they are awaiting the patrol chief's ruling before deciding whether to take legal action.

White said, "This gentleman needs to have his ability to carry a gun and a badge taken away so no other individual, and particularly a patient, has to go through this."

But Martins attorney said the trooper -- whom he described as a decorated sailor and a 15-year law enforcement veteran -- didnt realize there was a patient in the ambulance until well after the situation had intensified. He either didnt hear it or it didnt register, he said.

Martin was trying to make a legitimate traffic stop, James said, when White became hostile, refused to comply with the patrolmans orders and caused the situation to spiral out of control.

James said the law allows an officer to pull over an ambulance if its emergency lights and sirens arent running, as was the case in this incident.

But White said on The Early Show it was for the patient's benefit that the sirens werent on.

"Its common practice," White told Rodriguez. " ... The patient actually had a fainting episode with chest pain. And its common practice not to run lights and sirens with those type patients. It really exacerbates their situation."

OCarroll said the veteran paramedic was trying to protect his patient and that the trooper had no reason to stop the ambulance, let alone try and arrest White. The troopers arms were bruised when White resisted arrest, James said.

"If the guy was bruised, it didnt make any difference," OCarroll said. "He ought not to stop ambulance drivers for hurting his feelings."

An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper and a paramedic were caught on tape scuffling Sunday while a patient was being taken to the hospital.

The fight happened on Highway 62, near Paden, after a OHP and first responders argued over a close call on the road.

OHP alleges that one of the paramedics on the video assaulted the trooper, but the assault was not caught on tape.

"We're like trying to tell the guy, Dude, my mom is in the back,' and my stepdad was like, My wife is in the back. Can we do this at the hospital?'" said Kenyada Davis.

For the story, go here:
http://www.news9.com/global/story.asp?s=10427244

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[doulasdooku]

Highway cops have little dicks.

[AraBedelian]

cops are just people who got the shit kicked out of them in high school and now look for revenge. thats why they pray on whoever strikes them as someone who would have done that to them.

[freedomfun1]

so these uneducated dumb redneck cops pulled over an ambulance for speeding? when it's was on emergancy route?

[nicolesamsonite]

fucking white trash cunt

[military4life1]

My moto never mess with someone or ague with someone that has a gun

[Jakesmom082010]

These police officers were very mean on the way out of line.. I hope they got fired

[vegas702bred]

dude ur in Oklahoma, ur black and the cops white. that just about speaks for itself. Dumbass cops always think they can get away with everything

[thegoldenhurricane]

@manlaw... Funny how u think ur so tough behind a screen. Knowing dam well u would b quiet as a mouse if u were around in person with all the people in this room lol

[thegoldenhurricane]

And no charges were filed. The pig was put on administrative leave and later reinstated. If u wanna checkout more of oklahoma's finest,then Google tulsa police indictments. These pigs were planting drugs and guns on people. Over thirty people were released from prison cause of these swine in uniform.

[thegoldenhurricane]

I live in oklahoma and these ms.piggys pulled the ambulance over because they did not yield to these bacon bits. Emt has the right of way over any piggys when they are transporting a patient to a hospital.

[786elmatador]

Fucking white trash pigs