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Oklahoma Highway Patrol vs. EMT: paramedic speaks out about choking incident
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The troubling confrontation between an Oklahoma Highway Patrol and a paramedic transporting an elderly patient to the hospital added another chapter as the EMT told his story to Fox News.
EMT Maurice White, interviewed by reporter Brian Wilson as part of Fox's Nowhere to Hide series, painstakingly steps through the events that included him being attacked and choked by an enraged trooper. Note: this interview took place just before the OHP finally released the trooper's dash cam video, which you can see in my second story on this incident.
White said that trooper Daniel Martin was enraged from the time he stepped out of his patrol car. The OHP is normally "the epitome of professionalism," White declared, but that the trooper's actions were a "nightmare" for the patient strapped to the gurney in the ambulance as she heard the attack and her family's screams.
The 31-year-emergency services veteran said that he's never before encountered a situation like this confrontation, nor has he ever been choked by a police officer. White said the choking episode was "surrealistic" and that the trooper was "out of control" on that day and "in a state of rage."
Here's the full interview with White. The first article in this series contains the cellphone video taken by the patient's family.
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