CHP arrest on-duty firefigher while treating crash victims . . .

[Moose-Knuckle]

Nanny/Police state working for you!


Cop handcuffs on-duty firefighter for not moving truck
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow...8011.html?vp=1

[SilverBullet432]

Thats sad. Very sad. Made me get a knot in my gut sad.

[KTR03]

So when I read the headline I figured: Offduty fireman, pulls up in his Dodge Ram in street clothes to render first aid, and there is a huge misunderstanding... I was shocked to see him in bunker gear at an actual accident...

I don't want to turn this into the typical anti cop thread - but - this really speaks to a "my way, or the highway" mentality on the part of the CHP officer (see what I did there). Even if he was right - one would think that he would have said to himself: "self, you are in the right, but the guy is a fire fighter, treating victims, and he is in uniform, and there are TV camera's rolling, and right or wrong, I'm going to look like an idiotic 'triple A with a badge' schmuck by arresting this guy... I am so glad I moved out of that crazy ass state...

[chuckman]

I think this, and things like this, are in the minority, which is why they make the news. I do not for a second think that cop is like all, or most, LEOs. He is a schmuck who needs some serious disciplining.

[JBecker 72]

I normally try to stay out of these types of threads, but I can honestly say I feel that officer should lose his job for this. What an asshat.

[Moose-Knuckle]

Not sure about CA, but here it is standard operating procedure for our FD's to park their apparatuses in a way so as to shield themselves and their patients from oncoming traffic. If this is the attitude that CHP takes with FD then I hope they never need EMS. Would that trooper arrested him if he was treating a fellow trooper on the highway? Do they arrest ambulance drivers for busting red lights and or speeding enroute to or from a call?

This is a shining example of how asinine that place is, it is void of all logic.

[Whiskey_Bravo]

I normally try to stay out of these types of threads, but I can honestly say I feel that officer should lose his job for this. What an asshat.

I do to. If he is willing to do that to an on duty firefighter actively treating accident victims on scene over the parking of an engine, I can only imagine how he treats the general public.

[AMMOTECH]

Not the first time and it won't be the last........

Cop Vs. Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O0O0TaQBE0

Cop Vs. EMT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4G37Ouy164

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[J-Dub]

Should be dealt with accordingly.....as in fired. If I did that, I would expect to NOT HAVE A JOB as soon as my Sgt, LT, CPT, and Chief found out.

[T2C]

Not sure about CA, but here it is standard operating procedure for our FD's to park their apparatuses in a way so as to shield themselves and their patients from oncoming traffic. If this is the attitude that CHP takes with FD then I hope they never need EMS. Would that trooper arrested him if he was treating a fellow trooper on the highway? Do they arrest ambulance drivers for busting red lights and or speeding enroute to or from a call?

This is a shining example of how asinine that place is, it is void of all logic.

I understand what you are saying, but in my area I have seen the Fire Department respond to a six lane interstate and block all three lanes traveling in one direction to treat someone on the right shoulder. They had traffic at a stand still and some of us were curious why they could not open one lane. They would still have two lanes and a shoulder to work with and I was curious why 32' was not enough room to treat the person parked on the shoulder.

Where was the truck parked in this particular incident and why didn't the fireman move it when the CHP officer told him to? Before we hang the CHP officer, let's get a few more details.