Apparently, this is a thing
Mentioned the policeman who detained and cuffed a firefighter for not moving his truck and instead helping victims. This same thing happened in Knoxville a couple years or so ago:
A Knox County sheriff’s deputy cited the driver of a Rural/Metro firetruck after the firefighter allegedly wouldn’t move his engine out of a lane of traffic at a crash scene on Interstate 75.
Administrators of both agencies contend the incident is isolated, rare and doesn’t reflect the kind of relationship that has developed between its members.
Knox County Sheriff’s Office Patrolman Terry Wright cited Rural/Metro employee Matthew Clift on Tuesday on a charge of failure to obey a lawful order. The disagreement between the men occurred on the southbound lanes of I-75 near the 113 mile marker, which is north of the Emory Road interchange.
Unreal.
February 17th, 2014 at 6:50 pm
It is unreal. Firefighters park their vehicles to block traffic to aid in making scene safe to work in. The answer to thugs with badges should be for that fire dept to tell that sheriff dept to straighten their thug out or they’ll remember that incident every time one of the sheriff’s wants aid.
February 17th, 2014 at 7:39 pm
It all depends on the relationship that that police agency has with the FD in the area. Where I used to work, the city cops we dealt with were pretty good guys. The county Sheriffs we ran with in the unincorporated areas were generally lazy authoritarian douche nozzles.
This does happen from time to time, because cops have a gun, a badge, and qualified immunity. Some of them let it go to their heads, and this problem seems to be worse in some departments over others.
February 17th, 2014 at 8:20 pm
It happens more than you’d think.
February 17th, 2014 at 8:58 pm
Respekt my Autoriteh!
February 17th, 2014 at 10:07 pm
“…failure to obey a lawful order.” So, whatever the nice police officer tells you to do is “lawful”, while it’s well known as a bad idea to ask one a question of law since they’re typically so blatantly pig-ignorant.
February 18th, 2014 at 1:10 am
“Administrators of both agencies contend the incident is isolated, rare and doesn’t reflect…”
Why, it’s amazing how often isolate, rare incidents show up in the news. It’s almost as if either I or every police spokesman in the country don’t know what the words isolated and rare mean.
February 18th, 2014 at 10:45 pm
“Knox County Sheriff’s Office Patrolman Terry Wright cited Rural/Metro employee”
See there’s the problem, the Sheriff’s officer was pure as the driven snow currently plaguing y’all back there. The Rural/Metro employee was them damned For Profit! firefighters.
Just in case, /sarc.