The nurse*and her attorney released the footage at a news conference last week. Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski and the city’s police chief apologized to Wubbels in a statement*and said they had launched an internal investigation.
On Tuesday, Payne was*fired from his part-time paramedic job at Gold Cross Ambulance.*The detective could be heard in the video telling another officer that as a first responder he could “bring them all the transients and take good patients elsewhere” if Wubbels refused to let him draw blood. “That’s not the way we treat people in our city,” Gold Cross Ambulance President Mike Moffitt*said.
In response to the incident, the*University of Utah Hospital imposed new restrictions on law enforcement, barring them from patient care areas and from direct contact with nurses.*“This will not happen again,” Gordon Crabtree,*interim chief executive of the hospital, said at a Monday news conference.
Wubbels is considering legal action. Her attorney, Karra Porter, has called her arrest unlawful.