Aline Wright probably thought that she had enough tough breaks in her life when her husband rushed her to the emergency room in Chattanooga. Aline is a cancer survivor, amputee, she was showing signs of a stroke and her new husband Jesse Wright ( a nurse technician) ran her to the emergency room. Then she ran into an officer from the Chattanooga Police Department.
Wright stopped at the two red lights between him and the emergency room but proceeded through the lights toward the emergency room. The officer spotted him the second time and followed them to the emergency room. The officer prevented the couple from entering the emergency room as Wright tried to carry Aline into the Erlanger Medical Center. She was unable to walk.
Despite this obvious emergency scene, the officer demanded answers on why they ran a red light. When the couple finally prevailed in demanding to enter the hospital, the officer tried to enter their room to arrest Jesse. Accordingly to the couple, the officer was only deterred from arresting Wright by hospital staff who insisted that, since Aline was unable to speak, they needed the husband to answer questions.
The officer was not done. He returned to the police station and a warrant was reportedly issued for Jesse Wright’s arrest. After being informed, Jesse had to leave his wife’s side and go to the police station, where he was told that they did not have a copy of the warrant. He went back to the hospital and fell asleep by his wife’s side. According to the couple, the security officers then rushed into the room in the early morning and arrested him for the Chattanooga Police Department.
The officer hit Wright with seven charges, including felony evading arrest.
The Chattanooga Police Department insists that they have no reason to investigate unless someone files a formal complaint. Lt. Kim Noorbergen insisted, “[u]nless we receive an Internal Affairs complaint on an officer we trust he is doing his job.”
Of course, there is the media coverage and the public statements of this couple. However, until a formal complaint is filed, it appears that no evidence or allegations are sufficient for the CPD to actually open an investigation — absent a formal complaint.
Obviously, the Wrights should file a complaint and, if these allegations are true, they should sue the city for such an obvious abuse of power and lack of basic humanity.
The account reminds one of another recent case
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Kudos: CCD
I don’t think they’ll have a hard time finding a pro bono lawyer to take this one on. The officer’s actions are absurd. Even if you think the gentleman broke the law, there’s absolutely no indication he was dangerous. Why not just issue a summons because of what’s going on with his wife?
What a jackbooted jackass. I hope the resulting lawsuit breaks the CPD’s checkbook. Hey! Officer Dumbass! How would you feel if some moron public “servant” tried to block you from getting emergency care for YOUR wife, eh? Would you shoot him? Rhetorical. It’s clear you have all the feelings of a sociopath and your bosses the same for not automatically pulling your manifestly insane self off the streets.
Nice catch, CCD.
““[u]nless we receive an Internal Affairs complaint on an officer we trust he is doing his job.””
I didn’t realize harassing a couple trying to get into the emergency room was part of this cops’ job.
After harassing said couple, I must ask: Is this cop blind?
Does Power lead to Teh Stupid, or does Teh Stupid lead to Power? I’d like to know exactly whom this fellow believes he is Serving and Protecting. (I’d settle for ‘approximately.’)
I would happily take the traffic cases, felony evasion case – and the inevitable civil case. Cops like this are good for business.
I have only been angry three times in the years I have been posting here. Once at a troll for attacking my grandfather, once at a story about an Obama Constitutional betrayal (one of the many) and once at Byron (and I wasn’t really mad at him, but something on the ground and he had the misfortune to poke the bear at the wrong time and the resulting bite merited a mea culpa). The more I think about this story?
Today could be number four.
Like it’s not hard enough to get medical treatment in the land of (w)health care “reform” that’s little more than a subsidy for Big Pharma and Big Insurance, now citizens have to deal with assholes like this cop. The only thing missing from this story is he didn’t demand proof of health care insurance (such as it is). Did he not see “Big Jake” and learn the lesson you don’t screw with a man’s family or his dog and not expect Hell to pay?
I’ve said all along I prefer a peaceful legal remedy to our collective national problems. It’s Gestapo tactics like this that makes me reconsider that position. It becomes clearer with each passing day that government, from local to Federal, is becoming the enemy of We the People.
Buddha Is Laughing
I’ve said all along I prefer a peaceful legal remedy to our collective national problems. It’s Gestapo tactics like this that makes me reconsider that position. It becomes clearer with each passing day that government, from local to Federal, is becoming the enemy of We the People.
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Buddha has made a very serious point and the threat to We the People is real.
Why is it that when cops do something stupid they compound it with more stupidity? Why is it that while the vast majority of police officers are good and decent people, the ones who are not are really off the edge of reality?
And where was this guy’s boss? Isn’t there a captain that is supposed to watch over these guys? Didn’t someone in the District Attorney’s office that is supposed to sign off on these warrants actually pay attention to the situation? Would that ADA be aiding and abetting the abuse of power by this cop?
I hope the Wrights do the right thing and file a formal complaint against the Chattanooga Police Department and then sues them for a good bit of money. This way, the economic incentive will help manage these rogue cops so they worry about real crime!
Apparently, waiting for the light to turn green is more important than saving someone’s life. At least in Chattanooga.
I wonder if the department’s policy of only investigating their officers when a formal complaint has been filed is going to bite them in the ass in the inevitable lawsuit.
Buddha:
“Once at a troll for attacking my grandfather, once at a story about an Obama Constitutional betrayal (one of the many) and once at Byron”
One lives to be of service
If you dont poke the bear once in awhile, life just isnt worth living. And it gives the bear something to sink his teeth into.
BIL:
Thanks for your steady encouragement! I desperately had to find a way to contribute at, “Res ipsa loquitur where the truth shall be known” to paraphrase V. Treacy. And taking more than I give makes me feel like a gonif.
Loads of gratitude to JT and the regular coconspirators he attracts, who examine and analyze public policy, humane and otherwise… The broadsword of truth swung daily here expands my awareness of the issues we create. I’m very appreciative to all the usual suspects. (No lists)
Oh and the Chattanooga Copper: What a power tripping, letter of the law enforcing, maroon.
I emailed the mayor and told him what I thought about this. I havent heard back yet.
CCD:
where have you been? You havent posted for a long time. You been ok?
WTF. At least its not Texas, Florida or ……this time. I have heard that the hills do not talk, nor will they ever find you at Ruby Falls, I have yet to hear that the damn gives up its dead.
The damn:
CCD,
Quality, which you always bring, far surpasses any lack of quantity. There is no need for gonif feelings on your part.
Byron,
Just remember that next time you draw back a stump.
sorry, about the damned. It should just be dam…..
Mr. Wright is obviously a much greater menace to the public health and safety than Officer Beemer (previous story).
Don’t want to be contrarian here or suggest that what this officer did was right but why didn’t the guy call an ambulance? His wife would have been receiving treatment as soon as they got to her. It could be an insurance/cost thing but I am curious.
Having been a firefighter for a few years I met a lot of cops & why bad ones like this stick around is easy. Police officers divide the world into 3 parts: Bad guys, victims and cops. the bad guys need to be punished but too many get away, primarily because victims are stupid and/or pass pansy laws that prevent the cops from punishing the bad guys. The only ones you can trust are cops &, if sometimes they appear to go overboard you need to keep 2 things in mind
bad guys & victims are stupid & lie
cops have your back when nobody else will.
Its a sad mindset & I feel bad about their getting to it but I think it is an occupational hazard that is largely ignored.
Buddha: I have only been angry three times in the years I have been posting here.
And Patty C. didn’t make the list … why?
Bob,Esq.
You’re stirring the stink pot….lol….
Looks like the CPD is hiding behind their investigation to avoid having to defend the indefensible!
Update:
CHATTANOOGA (WRCB) – The Chattanooga Police Department tells Eyewitness News it has placed the officer accused of barring a couple from entering the Erlanger Medical Center emergency room on paid administrative leave pending an investigation.
The Chattanooga Police Department tells Channel 3 Eyewitness News that because an Internal Affairs investigation has been launched into this incident, they will not make any further comments about the case.
When exactly did common sense end up on the endangered species list?
Bob,
What can I say? I have a high threshold for anger. And her critique, such as it was, consisted mostly of “you’re fat, stupid and I wouldn’t hire you (and Obama knows what he’s doing so leave him alone)”.
That kind of attack simply doesn’t clear the bar. It ranks only slightly above a four year old calling me a “dooty head”. Pinning her to the insult mat was an exercise in verbal judo and contained all the emotion of dojo practice. She made me giggle quite a bit, but nary once did she make me angry.
The first of her “criticism” is at best supposition as she has never seen me. Contrary to popular belief, I am also neither jade green nor bald although I may be someday. Green that is. I’ll always have some hair.
The second is demonstrably untrue. As any human, I have my foibles but stupidity isn’t one of them. That weakness of mine for redheads though nearly killed me once. Twice. Several times. More than I can count.
The last of the primary assertions would presume I’d work for someone of her temperament for any longer than it takes to say, “Guess what you can do with this job? The hint I’ll give you is ‘sideways’.” Also a historically demonstrable fact. Oh yes. Buddha has quit more than one job for “superior inferior reasons”.
Her underlying premise, that Obama knew what he’s doing (and ergo I should leave him alone) in context of restoring the Constitution and the Rule of Law has also proven to be manifestly untrue. Unless she meant he knew what he was doing in becoming an aider and abettor of treason after the fact, in which case I’ll give her the technical point.
That’s four strikes. The Prof is a most generous host and umpire and it was only after her attacks grew truly reprehensibly and unacceptably personal against others she was flaming on did I ask for her censure. I didn’t by that point, nor do I now, give a rat’s ass what Patty thinks about me personally. And she got that reaction the old fashioned way. She earned it.
And besides.
As any supermodel will tell you, the Internet adds at least 10 lbs.
Hey Buddha,
What happening?
Just back from lunch (very good – fried catfish, seafood gumbo and dirty rice) and a doctor visit (nothing serious – take two of these and avoid redheads). Woo hoo! Just another day in . . . Louisiana.
How’s the Lone Star State treating you?
Buddha,
Is it true that the Kansas City Star ran John Wayne Gacy on a column about National Clown week?
roflol
Um . . . I’m not sure but it wouldn’t surprise me.
I just read it in a fact history book about mistake and errors. I LMAO when I red that.
It was almost as funny as the story about the Iroquois Theater in Chicago that was billed as fire proof. Of course it was built as the great fire of Chicago. Only 1,900 people died in it. More than on the Titanic which was yet to be built.
The weather is hotter than a Texas rattle snake in the Arizona desert…..
Stel Pavlou,
It is rare when you can use intelligent and police in the same sentence. Kind of like saying gifted attorney, its rare but there are exceptions.
frankdawg: “Don’t want to be contrarian here or suggest that what this officer did was right but why didn’t the guy call an ambulance? His wife would have been receiving treatment as soon as they got to her. It could be an insurance/cost thing but I am curious.”
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It’s a good question; I wonder what kind of city services they have regarding 911 and how god their response time is. You can wait a long time for an ambulance and some people just drive a sick person to the ER. Also, the cost is too high if you don’t have insurance. In my neck of the woods private, non-911 ambulance service is $600. and up with payment at time of service. 911 ambulance service is the same; an EMS bus and critical care is a $1,200, to 1,400. one way fare. That’s just madness, if you can’t afford insurance don’t get sick, it’s way to expensive.
Kids, it’s all about the backdown. This cop evidently was reared to see it as dehumanizing. And typical of most institutions, the bosses feel they have to back him. A few more minutes on the evening news, and all is forgiven.
One thing about cops. Shoot them and they’re heroes. Embarrass them and you’re the problem.
“[u]nless we receive an Internal Affairs complaint on an officer we trust he is doing his job.
Considering the vast flow of items in this blog proving that so many of these ‘officers’ are doing an absolutely HORRIBLE job, I think it’s about time we start trusting that they are NOT doing their jobs properly UNTIL we receive a recommendation from at least a few dozen persons that indeed, they’ve helped in their lives maybe?
“To protect and serve”, it was, right?
‘Police’ is about to become a new adjective in the English language, an antonym of human, caring, sensible, rational, moral…
As in: ‘Dude, those prosecutors were so police, they didn’t show the slightest emotion in locking up that jaywalking Buddhist monk for life.’
“I watched it burn down. Someone should have called the fire department.” said the Fire Chief.
On the plus side, there have been cops who caught people running red lights on their way to hospitals, who, when apprised of the medical emergency, turned on the squad cars flashers and sirens told them to follow the squad car top speed to the hospital. I have seen this happen a couple of times when wives are about to give birth. In this type of case, maybe the officer could intantly tell a true emergency was in the works cuz the woman was in labor.
Not all cops are total morons and bullies, unfortunately, the ones with power issues get all the news.
This is a classic case of an officer who had every opportunity to be a hero and chose, instead, to be a bully! Poor judgment begets poor choices!
UPDATE:
Officer identified as Jim Daves.
All SEVEN charges Daves made have been dropped but they were “assault on police, disorderly conduct, reckless endangerment, felony evading arrest, registration expired and two counts of traffic signals violation”.
What an asshole. Enjoy your new job as Wal-Mart security, Jimbo.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/22/jim-daves-chattanooga-cop_n_621388.html
Buddha,
I don’t like walfart but would you really want this type of disgruntled employee doing security at wallyworld?
Sure. He’d fit right in.
http://thecrimemap.crimereports.com/2010/03/15/walmart-security-refuses-to-help-woman-robbed-at-knifepoint/
Buddha: That kind of attack simply doesn’t clear the bar. It ranks only slightly above a four year old calling me a “dooty head”.
So she didn’t get you angry enough to forget decorum altogether; writing things you’d later apologize to JT for?
You sure you’re not attached to that “three” count like the California penal system or Mr. Owl in those Tootsie-Pop commercials?
An apology for showing my fangs and being angry are not equivalent, Bob.
And how did you guess my candy coated affiliation?
I see, so the showing of fangs is in no way indicative of anger. And dogs f’d the pope, but it’s no fault of yours.
My apologies Mr. Owl.
Rocky: “And now here’s something we hope you’ll really like.”
http://www.divinecaroline.com/22323/99603-i-m-arrest-what-fifty-bizarre
“And dogs f’d the pope, but it’s no fault of yours.”
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The Gendarme Insp. Jacques Clouseau once asked “Does your dog bite?”
The innkeeper replied, “No.”
As he drew back bitten fingers, the good Inspector said, “I thought you said your dog does not bite?”
To which the Innkeeper replied, “That’s not my dog.”
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Aye, the Pope can try to send me the laundry bill.
But that’s not my dog.
Now the dog humping “Officer” Daves?
That just might be my dog.