If you haven't seen this video you have got to watch it. It is the dash cam from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper that pulled over the ambulance for failure to yield. I know it happened awhile ago but it is still hot in the news and is a controversial issue.

My 2 Cents-Failure to yield- The trooper accuses the driver of failure to yield, WTF! If you watch the video you see that the trooper is behind the ambulance for all of 3-5 seconds and then look how fast he came up on him. Was the trooper actually driving with due regard? The trooper also make a comment about looking in the rearview mirror. That trooper came up so fast that I have no doubt that the driver did not see him.......... Just a bizarre scene. Let us know what you think.

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Fracas between trooper, EMT still stirs debate
State health official says Highway Patrol, medical services usually work ‘seamlessly’

BY RON JACKSON


Fracas between trooper, EMT still stirs debate
State health official says Highway Patrol, medical services usually work ‘seamlessly’
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BY RON JACKSON
Published: June 17, 2009


A state health official said Tuesday he is watching with anxiety as a confrontation between a state trooper and an emergency medical technician continues to be disputed in the media.
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OHP: Trooper altercation with EMT

Jun 13 The Oklahoma Highway Patrol released the dashcam video of the altercation between trooper Daniel Martin and Creek Nation EMT Maurice White Jr.
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"I don’t want people to think this is normal behavior. The Highway Patrol and EMS have always operated seamlessly, usually with no air between them,” said Shawn Rogers, director of emergency medical services for the state Health Department.

Creek Nation EMT Maurice White Jr. appeared on national television Tuesday and called for Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper Daniel Martin to be stripped of his badge and gun.

"As the video clearly shows, he was told emphatically that we had a patient that needed to get to the hospital,” White told Maggie Rodriguez during CBS’s "The Early Show.”

Martin is on paid administrative leave following a May 24 altercation in which he is caught on tape choking White during a traffic stop. In the video, White resists Martin’s command that he is under arrest and tells the trooper he has a patient on board.

What the law says
Over the past three weeks, many have dissected the actions of Martin and White, based on two videos of the altercation and official reports. Yet there is another facet to the story outlined by the state’s Emergency Medical Services Statutes and Regulations.

The law states, "Authorized emergency vehicles of licensed ambulance services shall comply, at all times, with the applicable requirements of Title 47, the Oklahoma Motor Vehicle Code.” Martin was within the law for stopping the Creek Nation ambulance for its failure to yield to his lights and sirens. On the video, White informs Martin there is a patient in the ambulance. Yet Martin insists on talking with the driver, Paul Franks, which appears to enflame White — the EMT in charge.

"The EMT in charge is ultimately responsible for a patient,” said Rogers, adding that his agency can suspend or terminate an EMT’s license if a patient isn’t cared for properly. "I find it really unusual for that trooper not to defer to the ambulance mission — highly unusual.”

Another point of contention has been the fact the ambulance wasn’t operating its lights and sirens, leaving Martin’s defense attorney, Gary James, to question the urgency of the transport.

"You can have a patient being treated emergent and have lights off,” Rogers said. "Happens all the time with heart attacks, when you’re trying not to increase the patient’s anxiety level by running lights and sirens.

"You’re instead trying to keep the patient calm.”

Stella Jordan, the patient, has a history of heart problems and had blacked out after experiencing chest pains, according to White’s attorney, Richard O’Carroll. Jordan was treated and released.

UNBELIEVABLE!!![

If this trooper needs anything, he needs to have his testosterone levels checked!

Common sense would have been to take the number of the ambulance down and IF there was an infraction , then contact the service's administrative staff.

Again, I am totally blown away that any agency would have put a gun in the holster of this jerk, give him a car with lights and siren and then turn him loose on the general population.

If he had a partner, then his partner should be dragged over the hot coals as well for not attempting to diffuse the situation!

Administrative leave indeed..hell I know a couple of VERY remote locations in the Canadian arctic were the polar bears are getting a bit rambunctious - maybe they could send his unarmed ass up there for a spell and see how his attitude would go through a miraculous change.