Cop has to pay $18,000 for arresting firefighter trying to help an accident victim
While there are plenty of very hard-working and very honorable police offers out there, the few bad ones really seem to create a big mess.
In this case a Fire Department Captain stops the fire truck on a highway to rescue a driver injured in a crash.
While he is in the middle of helping the injured driver a cop pulls up and tells him to move the fire truck. The cop refuses to let this Fireman tend to the victim and proceeds to arrest him in the middle of him giving medical treatment to the injured driver.
The Fireman not only has all the charges against him dropped, but the cop gets fired. Then the cop gets sued, and loses. Badly.
The cop is ordered to pay the Fireman $18,000 in damages.
The best part of the story is that this cop had a history of being abusive, and was still on the police force. Now the city (Taxpayers) will have to foot the bill for this man who had no business being a cop in the first place.
December 31st, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Hopefully the injured driver sued the cop as well.