Saw this on earlier news reports and am flabbergasted at the police response to this.
IMO the nurse was trapped between a rock and a hard place - she had to comply with hospital policy, as well as HIPAA standards or risk losing her licence and/or her job versus complying with a police command.
I'm not a lawyer, so can't comment on whether the request from the police was legally valid or not, but the reaction to grab her and cuff her like that when she was not showing any signs of outward aggression or threats is beyond the pale.
I also heard that the officer has not been disciplined or stood down from duty, only been restricted from collecting blood at the hospital in person again, which doesn't go towards solving the power imbalance and ethical problems here.
IMO the nurse was trapped between a rock and a hard place - she had to comply with hospital policy, as well as HIPAA standards or risk losing her licence and/or her job versus complying with a police command.
I'm not a lawyer, so can't comment on whether the request from the police was legally valid or not, but the reaction to grab her and cuff her like that when she was not showing any signs of outward aggression or threats is beyond the pale.
I also heard that the officer has not been disciplined or stood down from duty, only been restricted from collecting blood at the hospital in person again, which doesn't go towards solving the power imbalance and ethical problems here.