OHP State Trooper stops ambulance...transporting a patient
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Whatever you do, don't get pulled over by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. Even if you have witnesses. Even if you're a paramedic, transporting a patient to the hospital, you don't want to piss off these OHP good ol' boys.
This just-released video from Trooper Daniel Martin's own dashboard camera makes it pretty clear that this particular law enforcement officer has some personal issues. I'm not going to suggest he's a racist jerk, just because he (and the backup officer who shows up after the trooper pulls the ambulance over) seem much more interested in having some sort of shouting match, bullying, choking, and swearing at the paramedics—especially ambulance supervisor Maurice White who steps out of the back of the ambulance and identifies himself as the person in charge of the team. White says quite calmly and clearly, more than once, that they're in the process of transporting a patient. Martin doesn't seem inclined to do anything actually official or professional, like, oh...write the threatened "failure to yield" ticket that he's yelling about.
This story has apparently been unfolding in Oklahoma for a couple of weeks. The family members of the elderly woman being transported managed to record quite a damning amount of cell phone footage, as well. The dashboard cam in the trooper's own car caught the entire disturbing event pretty clearly, but I can't help but notice that the trooper involved kept trying to move out of the camera's field of vision. Nonetheless, when the OHP finally released the footage in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by a local news station, the footage of the absolutely inexcusable and shameful behavior on the part of Trooper Daniel Martin, it didn't take long for links to spread all over the internet.
Astoundingly, the second officer to arrive at the scene reportedly turned his own dashboard camera off, entirely.
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OHP Officer
Why didn't the Ambulance pull over? it's obivous from the dash cam that the ambulance was not running lights or siren and the car directly in front of the ambulance pulled over. It's obivious that the officer wanted to speak to the driver and find out why he didn't pull over. Regardless if Mr White was in charge of the team he should have obeyed the officer order and got back in the ambulance. Let him talk to the driver as he wanted and they would have been on there way alot sooner. Yes he had a patient he was transporting, but obivious by the video she was not in any danger otherwise the ambulance would have been running there lights and siren. I dont see the officer trying to hide from the camera. I see a bunch of people converging on the officer. I also see that the officer told Mr White he was under arrest and Mr White fighting the officer and resisting arrest.
OHP officer
I agree with the above comment. I did not see any of what the writer was trying to make it out to be. Shame on you!!! When you turn the truth around for 'good gosip' that is just wrong!! These officers are trying to do their job and you 'implied' that they were racist and just being bullys. What would have happend had that ambulance ran a red light (without their lights) then you would have been writing about how irresponsible the driver was. Ambulance drivers are not above the law. If the patient needed to be transported in a hurry they know to have their lights on. THEY failed to yeild to an officer with his lights on....what if he was on his way to help one of your family members out??? What if someone dieing was needing assistance?? And the ambulance did not yeild....why?? again SHAME on YOU for turning on those who protect us. Didnt you learn not to bear false witness at school??