Trooper Fights Paramedics With Patient Still In Ambulance (VIDEO)

Oklahoma's Tulsa World newspaper reports on a bizarre scuffle this past week after a highway patrol officer pulled over an ambulance that was carrying a patient headed for the hospital, but didn't have its siren on.

The patrolman apparently intended to issue a 'failure to yeild' citation to the ambulance driver, and was angered when he believed one of the paramedics gave him a middle finger.

Despite being told that the woman in the ambulance needed to get to the hospital, the trooper insisted that one of the paramedics be detained in his car. When he tried to handcuff a paramedic, a fight ensued, which was filmed by the husband of the patient.

Eventually the patrolman allowed the ambulance to go to the hospital. An investigation over the incident "has been turned over to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol's Internal Affairs Unit and a county prosecutor," the Tulsa World reports.

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Comments

[T4Phage]

yup, yet another example of the blatant racism still so rampant in this freak of a country

[johnbatist]

amen.

[Rey Amun]

HORRIBLE!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!

[arpaul]

The guy with the camera is lucky he didn't get shot. Oklahoma troopers consider themselves judge, jury and executioner most cases. A "statie" gives you a hard time in Oklahoma for ANYTHING and your best answer is, "Thank you sir, may I have another."

[KitChandler]

Wasn't it in Tulsa where riots occurred burning down an entire black neighborhood and killing scores of blacks back in the 20's? Obviously not much has changed.

What was that word that gained so much prominence last week? EMPATHY?

[Mikeatle]

Oklahoma is good for nothing more than wind.

[Pursuance]

This nation sure is an angry nation.

[Faraja]

lol! Very funny!

[woundedduck]

White cop, black ambulance driver, black patient. Looks like "driving while black" includes emergency service personnel, too.

[mcato97]

The driver was white! its not a crime to give a cop the finger! or is it??

[Altruth]

Don't even try to defend the behavior of that Cop! If all it takes is the "finger" for this COP to go off the deep-end he should not have a badge!

[Altruth]

Your point is?

[lynnn]

Yea the driver was white but they were trying to arrest the black guy who wasn't even driving.

[instarx]

We don't know which one was driving before this incident, only that the white paramedic is the one that drove away.

This is really pathetic. Those oficers didn't know what was wrong with the patrient in the back nor how serious it was, and to stop the ambulance for a minor traffic violation and delay it shows MONUMENTAL lack of judgement on their part.

[DenverBiblio]

I think it is against the law to flip of a cop. Looked to me that the suspect was resisting arrest when he came out of the ambulance.

I never saw a black patient in the ambulance. I know her son was black from the video, but who knows. BOs mom is white.

[johndtuttle]

Yup. Racism is dead in America.

[johnbatist]

absolutely

[dee1984]

Didn't you hear Obama was elected president, that means we live in a "post- racial" society lol