What we can do about police brutality. Not sit idly by or contribute to online fora, but take the message to the source. In this essay I include comments made regarding self-deification of police.

I am not proposing the following communications to be a template, but instead a prod to action. Respond as you will. This is what I said:

To the Salt Lake City Police Department

Police brutality, assault and battery under cover of law. The reprehensible actions of one of your officers, Jeff Payne, brings disgrace not only to himself but to your department as a whole. His actions in illegally arrest Nurse Wubble at U of Utah Hospital are deplorable by any standard. He is now under paid administrative leave for his brutality. He arrogated upon himself, deprivation of 4th amendment rights of a citizen, Nurse Wubble, physical attacking her (battery). Was his life endangered by a middle-aged nurse holding a cell phone? Did he feel threatened by the reading to him of a previously enacted hospital policy? Obstruction of justice, he claims. How about, more correctly, destruction of justice? This man has no place on any police force. He is a ticking time bomb, able to explode unpredictably, the next time somebody annoys him.

Paid Leave? More fitting would be immediate termination from your police force and trial by jury for his various illegal, senseless actions at University of Utah Hospital.

So, Chief Brown, how do you think the country is viewing your department now? Is it salutory? Do you think citizens, not only from SLC, will feel safe in a city where brutal police actions are regarded as mere infractions? How inviting is the reputation of your department to encourage tourism to your city?

801-799-3351 for P.D. feedback.

To Gold Cross Ambulance Service

Sept. 2, 2017

Gold Cross Ambulance Service
762 S. Redwood Rd.
SLC UT 84104-3619

Jeff Payne, your employee. Payne is employed by your company as a driver. A few days ago, Payne, while acting under cover of law, forcibly and illegally battered a hospital emergency room nurse.

The prime object of an ambulance service, or indeed any health care provider, is to tend to and insure the welfare under their care. The same cannot be said for Payne, a brute who arrogates power and force on people, regardless of circumstances or illegality. Payne is not only a disgrace to the SLC police department but to your company. How can any of those you transport in an ambulance driven by that barbarian reasonably expect to arrive safely at a hospital? Any hospital?

Would your prospective clients have peaceful feeling when that cruel bully is at the wheel of YOUR ambulance.

Refer to body cam footage taken after the assault, battery, and illegal detainer. Outside the hospital bully Payne is commenting whether this event will affect his employment with Gold Coast. He then comments that hence forward, he will take the "good patients elsewhere", and by implication dump the other patients to the University of Utah Hospitals.

Is that the type of person you want to represent your company on life and death decisions? I foresee legal actions against your company should any patient die while in transport by a Payne-driven ambulance. Do you think this video would play well in front of a jury during a wrongful death law suit?

From both a practical view and well as the over-riding moral view, keeping him employed is bad for Gold Cross and bad for the citizens of SLC.

Payne should immediately fired for conduct unbecoming a human being, let alone an alleged member of healthcare provider teams.

Sooner, better than later.