OHP State Trooper stops ambulance...transporting a patient

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??

to OHP Officer, are you

to OHP Officer, are you insane? or stupid? wait, if you ARE an OHP Officer, you are both.

You are a TOOL! This

You are a TOOL! This ambulance had a patient how was having chest pain and it is a common practice to not run lights and siren with these patients due to the stress it can put on the patient in a already stressful situation! Your dumbass trooper was running hot to a call that was bs, the ambulance started to pullover as soon as they noticed the trooper. The trooper has no right to pull over a ambulance with a patient on board, this cop should not only be fired he should have had his ass whipped bye the family who had there loved one in the back with a medical emergency....! Fuck OHP

Really OHP officers don't get murdered constantly?

Kind of surprising, I'd think you guys would be an endangered species. Shame on some poster? Shame on you. I'm sure you expect that one day you're going to have to explain yourself to Jebus. You probably also expect he has the IQ and ethics of an OHP psychopath. You disgust me. Freaking secede already. We don't want you Billy Bob.

Oooookkkk everybody

Soooo, for those of you that clearly have absolutely no freaking idea about what we paramedics do... here is a little glimpse... we do not always go "code 3" or "pri 1" or "lights & sirens" or whatever else you want to call it ALL the time for ALL critical or non-critical patients. Just because the "lights & sirens" are not on, does not mean that the patient is not serious or critical, sometimes it is just a matter of judgement & safety, so it is safer for us (and the patient) to drive non-emergency on certain calls because we A) do not endanger you ignorant people with our driving, B) do not get the patient's adrenaline up & hence comprimise whatever status they are in, and C) 99% of the time we get there in just about the same amount of time (just safer) as we would have with our lights & sirens on, because for WHATEVER reason, you idiots (that is everyone that drives on the road) freak out at the first sign of a flashing light & siren & you ignorant people do stupid S*#@ like pull into a tree... or slam on your breaks so we rear end you... or you pull through a red light & cause a wreck.... or you drive up onto a sidewalk & hit a kid... the list goes on.... furthermore, anyone in the EMS/Fire/Police field that does NOT think that this behavior was inexcusable is the same bastard of a breed that trooper Martin so eloquently showed himself.

OMG!

I was absolutely appalled at what I saw on both videos. After spending 14 years in EMS, it was almost unfathomable that this actually occurred. Ok, so the the trooper was hellbent on writing a ticket. He could have done that at the hospital. As soon as he found out that there was a patient in the ambulance, he should have let them go. What if it had been you, a partner or family member in that ambulance? Karma is a bitch Officer Martin!

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