Blood Test Shows Mother Arrested for DUI Was Sober
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2022
- A Tennessee mom was arrested for DUI after failing a field sobriety test. The police report claimed Katie Slayton showed uncoordinated behavior and slurred speech. But Slayton says she was simply exhausted after working a 12-hour shift at her hospital in a COVID-19 ward. Turns out, she also took her regular prescription dose of adderall. Six months later, her blood test result came back negative for alcohol. The charges against Slayton were dropped.
A hardworking nurse, a single mom, who’s trying her best to raise her child. This is so sad 😢
good riddance
WTF???? Six months to get the test back on top of it all??????
@@CharGC123 If the police department and judge had any sense at all, those cops would be out of a job. They clearly have issues.
Imagine how bad the daycare workers felt, awkward
@@OscarTheGrouchy and yet they say they "did the right thing". i dont understand why they dont just get a breathalyzer to check.. like they said in the video theres a bunch of reasons people could fail those tests
Why does it take 6 months for a simple blood test. That's unacceptable. She could have lost everything including her job and child. Once a kid is taken away and put in the system it's a nightmare to get them back even when you're proven to be innocent. The CPS simply say "But there must have been something"
Exactly what I came here to say! Ridiculous!
This happened to us also. In our case, the lab was backlogged. So many cases were behind. We waited 6 months until the test came back. Once it did, CPS dropped their case after wrecking havoc on our family.
@@laceyrodriguez7269 say it now
Wow. That's horrible...
CPS is very corrupt. My one boy had to fight for custody of his daughter from some pedo that lived in the woods because his baby mother died from a drug overdose.
She was supposed to be flying to Texas for my wedding the next day, instead this nightmare began. For the record, she offered to take a breathalyzer but was told no, she could be on drugs. She was without her son for 9 weeks. She is the sweetest, most generous person I know. I’m just happy she’s moving back to Texas. Tenn. lost a damn fine nurse.
Give her all of our love. Welcome to Texas. The patients here could use good nurses. ❤
Tragic insanity. Take good care of her. Respects from California.
Does the US not have the capability to do roadside mouth swab tests for common drugs? We've had them here in the UK for several years.
@@chrispop99 wait that's a thing you can do? Huh. I've only seen sobriety tests and breathalyzers. (We were all breathalyzed before we could enter any school dances and stuff back in high school).
Anyway, I hope her son got lucky while he was in the foster system. That's a horrible place to be for any length of time. I'm glad she has him back and it's good to hear that she's leaving.
everyone is on drugs. i took a beendryl last nite that will show in my system. god forbid i make a mistake on these stupid tests designed to make you fail.
I hope she’s compensated well. It’s sad to see a hardworking, valuable, and contributing member of society being punished so crudely for absolutely no reason.
She won't be compensated at all. Didn't you hear. They investigated and found no wrong doing. Judge says everything's A-OK. smdh
@@skgerttula you can always have a second opinion with a different judge but the whole system corrupted
I worry deeply about her and others who come into this type of situation. The extreme and immense trauma of this cannot be understated for her and her child. To take away a child you have better 99.999 percent sure of the situation first. What about a breathalyzer? They didn't do that? Wtf is wrong with these people?
Qualified immunity......it wouldnt even matter if the officers intentially broke the law to arrest her unless another officer had done it the exact same way, the department had been sued and lost.
How does one get compensated for the trauma associated with false arrest and being without their child for 9 weeks? Money doesn’t fix everything.
If there could be “so many reasons why someone could fail a field sobriety test” as stated by the woman in this video, then perhaps they shouldn’t rely on that and ruin people’s lives
But Sasuke you need to understand, it is beneficial to them. Didn't you work as part of the police force?
Cash revenue sasuke.
Never take the sobriety test, it’s always a option. The true test is within the blood at a hospital
Just do a breathalyse. Gives an accurate result quickly
@@samweller8673 I did wonder why a breathalyser wasn’t done and why the blood test took 6 months to come back?! Crazy on both counts.
9 weeks without her child? This is absolutely disgusting. I can't imagine how she and the child felt, my heart would break if this happened to me.
It's ok. Now that lawsuit money can put her child through college and pay off their home
The police were just doing their job. She failed the test so precautions were taken. It still is terrible but nobody’s fault in the end.
@@Unknown-pc9qj bootlicker
@Bryson Hall Not every police officer has that, ever thought about that?
@Bryson Hall It’s also not always accurate and courts don’t like to rely on machines
“Drug recognition experts” at their finest…Why wasn’t she asked to take a breathalyzer…This caused 6 months of trauma for this woman and nothing will change. I see why people live our police…
I blame the idiot daycare workers
At least there were actually signs of impairment, unlike the officer in Fort Collins who made 10 DUI/DWI arrests in the last year where all the tests came back negative.
Also, when you reach certain levels of fatigue, your coordination and reaction time will be the same as if you were drunk.
If the cops made the correct call, then the field sobriety test has to be re-examined. This is a failing of the justice system. You can’t just ignore this.
I’ve seen so many videos of inconsistency. Sober people doing badly, and people with high alcohol content in their system doing well.
These cops arrested a woman for DUI even though she hadn't been drinking, yet upon reviewing the footage it was determined that the police had "made the right call."
WTF?!!
pills/Adderall coming down. You can be high & prescribed it..
@@mollyram2997 adderall doesn't make u unable to drive its an upper. My friends would drive on meth back in the day and do pretty good
@@josephstalin9357 no I mean coming down off of it. Her shift had ended so it makes sense she took it for work(the looong nurse shifts).
Well the cops only had the usual test to determine if she had or seemed under the influence so they were doing their job correctly.
@@josephstalin9357 she was exhausted from work ...
That Day Care should have spoken with her more, to understand that she was just exhausted as a front line worker, or asked her if she was okay to drive instead just calling the police. Hope she's not using them anymore.
It's better that error on the side of caution.
I can understand the daycare. Parents might lie but the cops they were plain wrong!!
@@kellykel4472 Exactly.
@@kellykel4472 tks😃 air
Exactly I hope she doesn’t used them anymore
There wasn’t a relative they could have left the child with? Why put him in foster care? That’s traumatising to the child.
I’m really glad she got the blood test back and was able to explain everything.
You answer your own question, "There wasn't a relative they could have left the child with." That's why the kid was put into foster care
@@scoobert4500 not American, I don’t know the system.
My cell phone was dead and I didn't have many numbers memorized
@@kittylou8 wait! You’re the mom?
@@shesosweet2781 I am
Never ever take a field sobriety test-- take a breath test or blood test and plead the 5TH--DO NOT TALK TO COPS!!!!!
"Probable cause" has got to be the most abused term in our legal system. What a joke. Those cops should be ashamed.
if you have even a slight hint of shame in your soul youre not fit to be a police officer.
You mean't "arrested?" Them and their silent peers do this all the time.
sober people can't even pass the sobriety test. refuse it if you can. they may not ask you or give you the option to refuse BUT you CAN refuse the test.
And the daycare worker, it started with her
Daycare worker and the police need to compensate for this ladies wrongful arrest and stress due to her separation of her child
So she’s still “wrong” and they’re “right” for tearing her child from her? Disgusting
Chile, had she been black. lawdy lawd
@@gray7585 Calm down jesus
@@PHlophe she would have been shot cuz the cops would have feared for there live.
I don’t see where they said she was wrong. And the cops weren’t right, they just weren’t wrong because they acted under probable cause. A better solution would have been for these cops to follow her home and see if she drives erratically as if intoxicated, then they’d be better informed. The kid could’ve rode in the cop car. These cops didn’t care enough to do something like that.
@@ohroonoko They were absolutely wrong. Probable cause is far too vague of a statement and easy to get.
Should we all just start calling the police on people we don't like, and see what sticks?
Never do their “tests”. Not required by law and can never help you-only incriminate you. You do have to take the breathalyzer though or risk losing your license.
Refuse all tests. Eat the 6 month suspended license. No evidence in court other than circumstancial.
@@Chirpy_Squirrel They cannot convict witrhout evidence. If you refuse they have no evidence
In many states, refusing any field sobriety tests = license suspension. At that point you'll be arrested for DUI and have to hire an attorney to prove you weren't inebriated.
@@MrJointopz It's not as simple as that. Evidence can be the officer's judgment and be convicted based on that.
I have inner ear problems and would have difficulty with some of the test! 9 weeks in foster care, that's abuse! 6 months for blood test to come back!!
9 weeks of that child being taken away!? I could only imagine how the child was treated. What other "reasons" could determine her for failing a sobering test? Nothing because the lady was simply working and taking her prescribed medication like anyone else. The lady in the video did not look like she was drinking. I hope the mother does something like possibly sue those cops for unnecessary distress and damage without a legitimate reason to arrest her.
The child was likely treated pretty well, as the general foster care is honestly a decent system. I’ve known plenty of foster families and children in my life, even those who have been taken from their families due to drug addiction, and things go very well for them.
Suing the police wouldn’t go well as they had a cause for arrest, and after reviewing the video, it was said that the police “made the right call”. They were just doing their jobs and made a mistake. A bad one which definitely caused stress and pain, but a mistake that was understandable. This is why we have the blood tests to begin with. I’m glad she was proven innocent and given her son back.
Oh shut up....the brat was treated fine.
@@DimityPockets But why did the test take six months? And her kid with foster care for 9 weeks? I think it should have been quicker though... But I do understand what you mean.
@@DimityPockets What about the mental distress they put on the mother not being able to see her child for 9 weeks?
Yeah, I do agree that it should have taken a lot less time. Not sure what the deal was. Maybe the labs were overrun due to Covid?
JUSTICE FOR THIS NURSE!
How can we get mad at our nurses for doing the right thing!?!
For working so hard?!
If officers arrested her for appearing “drunk” I’d be scared to know what’s she’s like at work. Dealing with patients and medications? I mean I’m a nurse so I know how 12 hr shifts can be. But to appear drunk? Even the chief agreed the cops made the right call. That just concerns
@@dee27206 exactly! It’s not right! I have a 5 month old son, I’m consistently exhausted at times, so as a driver I feel threatened and at risk. What other choice do I have when he needs to go to the doctor or visit a er for an emergency situation?
@@dee27206 yeah they did not make the right call. They didn’t fact check and the breathalyzer lied which tells me many cases from the district needs to re-reviewed. These cops were doing a bad job !!
A nurse gave me an std
She was high on Adderall, its as bad as meth
How do these people go living guilt free with ruining people's lives ?
And why does it take 6 months for the results to come in ? That's outrageous. They need to work on finding faster ways for this.
None of this is okay. The Police department HAS to be held accountable 100%.
I take the same medication and I also work 12 hour shifts, that’s horrible she and the baby went through that.
As a nurse myself, after working a 12-13 hour shift, there’s times when I feel like I have to crawl in my front door and collapse on the couch…add nervousness, ADHD, a little natural clumsiness and there’s absolutely no way I’d have been able to stand on one foot until someone told me to stop.🤦🏻♀️ Another life ruined because someone “thinks” or “feels” a certain way…Despicable
I get nervous when I think someone is watching me walk from behind and I'll feel like I can't walk straight.
yet the bootlickers say the police was in the right ... this world is a terrible place where not doing anything wrong can land you in troubles
Therefore, as a nurse you should also know that sleep deprivation also leads to car accidents. It could be argued that drowsy driving is just as dangerous and irresponsible as drunk driving.
@@ProjectOverman I love that you think they have a choice. Take it up with the employers and medical culture in general.
@@Saje3D you do have a choice, its called Ride sharing.
6 months for a blood test to come back while someone’s child is in foster care is unacceptable.
How did it take 6 months?? How is this possible? This is ridiculous. Like if I do blood tests, they always come in a day!
@@byeebitch And I thought you can agree to a breathalyzer?
Doesn’t that show if you’ve been drinking a lot ?
"Innocent until proven guilty" doesn't exist if you can spend 6 months suffering based on an accusation alone
This happened exactly to me with my wife and kids on vacation in California i also failed the Field sobriety test because I was cold and nervous my blood came negative I know what she went threw.
Completely unacceptable.
This is absolutely horrible. Nobody should have to go through this. This poor woman:((
This is why you NEVER do the field sobriety tests. Its better to just go to the station and do the calibrated tests than let them make you do gymnastics and use it as probable cause to charge you. As the DUI guys says, SHUT UP and DONT BLOW
I just recently watched a video of a woman who is driving drunk at 2 AM with her fiancé in the backseat drunk and a two year old child in the car seat. That woman deserves this kind of treatment not the woman in this video
No surprises, many injustices happening
i killed a cop for this
She's white she will be fine if she was black can you imagine
Why does it take 6 months to get the results of a blood test -- especially when the custody of a child is at stake???
That was absolutely done on purpose. They do that so they can cause as much pain to the victim as possible. And also they were more than likely hoping she would take a plea bargain because she wanted to see her child so bad. It's disgusting behavior by them.
There is private stocks for the penal system that pay for campaign elections to those who make delayed laws.
@@PermaJeff YOU GET IT! They do these things on purpose hoping to crush spirits for a plea deal. This country is an entire business & we’re the pawns.
My heart breaks for this hard working, single mama and for her son. They were traumatized for nothing!! I hope she is compensated very well. However that will not take back what they had to endure.
This happened to me and ruined my life in so many ways. I still haven't came to terms with how truly damaging it has been.
Same here as a manic depressive
imagine 9 WHOLE WEEKS of sheer terror in that child and the mother
caused only because she works hard tp serve people in need. OUTRAGEOUS.
You pay for them.
A.C.A.B
@Big Spill black america?
You should never leave your “sobriety test “ in the hands of a medically UNtrained person. Take a breathalyzer or a blood test as that is scientific, not staring at a pen or balancing which lots of people can’t, due to a past injury or inner ear issues! My prayers go out to this Nurse & her family.🙏🏻
I have several medical conditions that could impact my performance on a sobriety test, let alone a physical disability, I'm not ABLE to stand on one leg on a good day for more than a second or two. I had a stroke before I even started driving. I just got my learners permit earlier this year at 21. I will ALWAYS refuse to comply with a field sobriety test. I will demand a breathalyzer. Id rather not have my innocence even come into question with a failed "test". Drunk people can pass the test and so many sober people can and do fail. It's not something we should be using anymore, especially with field breathalyzers existing. It's harder to be arrested with cause (failing a field test such in this case) than to be taken into custody temporarily for a breathalyzer test. I also need to get a note from a doctor explaining my medical conditions and carry it around with me.
No. The sentence is “you should never AGREE to a field sobriety test. EVER.”
There is no legal obligation to in any circumstance. It will ALWAYS be used against you, and there is no pass or fail system.
@@Hey_Jamie True!
@@Hey_Jamie That’s not necessarily true. I had a semi truck driver sideswiped me on the highway and I followed him and called the police. He failed the field sobriety test and they were open beers in the car, but charges were dropped because the police force did not send the chest and dash cams as requested.
Yea but a breath test doesn’t show if you’re on drugs
HOW AWFUL ! TERRIBLE !
Absolutely unacceptable. 👎🏽 to the cops for this INjustice.
Imagine ruining someone's life and taking their kid away from them, over something as simple and stupid as a broken sobriety test. Then when you found out the person was 1000% INNOCENT, 1000% SOBER, exhausted from a 12hr job HELPING PEOPLE and that she takes meds for a condition she has, you still say *"wE mAdE tHe riGHt cALL"* ?? Amazing 👏. Pure brilliance 👏 lol
The world unfortunately does not care about right or wrong. It's about validating what they already believe. It's unfortunate. Imagine how many times this happens & we don't know.
You know that ethylometers exist ?
@@judaswasametalhead what is that?
@@lindalicious3398 guess? Lol ethyl is alcohol and meter measures. Now go for it... you got this lol
FTP ACAB
If every driver REFUSED a "Roadside Sobriety Test" and demanded a breathalyser test only; they would fast become obsolete! NEVER TAKE SUCH A TEST! It's your right to refuse!
Thumbs up 👍
No if you refuse they have to arrest you to get a blood sample. Theytake you to some dui facility take your blood give you more testand release you. Not as bad of a process compared to being taking to a county jail
Where I am if you refuse the test it's an automatic tow and temporary imprisonment (detainment) until they can "blood test" you.
You should watch the video where the guy blew a 0 in a breathalyzer and they still held him for DUI and only when the blood test came back he was then let off.
@@thatguy5801 its like that in most places
But if you ask for a breathalyzer, they can't refuse you as its the most accurate test for alcohol besides blood(which gives too much info)
I've done it after a cop tried 2 field tests i passed and went for a 3rd
He quickly changed his attitude when I said "no, give me the breathalyzer"
That day care staff should be fired for falsifying a call to the police. Those cops should loose weight.
The person at the daycare is the one who deserves to be sued along with the incompetent cops. This is inexcusable!!!
So the daycare was so concerned about the kid that they called the police who arrested his exhausted single mom and the boy spent nine weeks in foster care. They didn’t protect him and instead traumatized him. Horrible employees.
So you’d rather them not call if they thought a parent was intoxicated? It’s not their fault, it’s the cops who arrested a sober woman for being drunk.
So what ur saying is an actual drunk mom should pick up her kid and kill someone with her car
No thats not what ur saying because if they gave her the kid and she was drunk u be calling em bad for not calling
@@nopenope9118 agreed. can't knock the people who report something suspicious. that's just how these things work. this comes down to the cops making the wrong decision
Would love to meet the 200 people who liked this comment. There was clearly something wrong with her or they wouldn’t have called. They made the right choice.
@@Pizza-Steve Who says they made the wrong decision? All the story is reporting is that she wasn’t drunk. Doesn’t mean she wasn’t high. If the daycare and the police thought there was something wrong with her then most likely there was.
LAWSUIT! This is unacceptable. I don't understand how your life can just be ruined like this! Do they not do breathalyzers?
i doubt she can... there is a judge that seemed to already ruled on it !! but I would definitely go after the daycare worker !!!! what an idiot !
A lawsuit she’d likely lose. They can legally ruin your life under “good faith” and you won’t receive a dime in compensation.
The suppreme court just passed a judgment that police officers can not be sued for any reason !!!
They can do whatever they want to and get away with it !!!
Breathalyzers dont detect any other drugs she potentially could've been on. I dont think it's super crazy of them to have assumed she was under the influence of something. Her daycare obviously thought it was bad enough to call the police on her
@@matthewsmith3078 uuuuh, not if they put her kid in foster care for 9 weeks.
And she’s a nurse? She’ll get a good lawyer.
As a Nurse, this makes my blood boil.
Wow. This is sickening. Praying she has a good lawyer. They need to pay. 9 weeks away from her kid at no fault of her own?! Beyond comprehension. That poor child as well as her will need therapy now.
Probable cause
my friend who is a lawyer said even a fully sober person can’t pass those field sobriety test, they’re nearly impossible to complete all at a 100%
This is why you NEVER submit to a FST.
@@bentramer4281 if you don’t then they take you to jail. It’s a lose lose situation. Maybe if police actually faced consequences for their actions innocent people wouldn’t have to spend time in jail for no reason.
@@Tuturu708 not in North Carolina. The sobriety test is optional. Breathalyzer on the scene is also optional. They will take you to the police station to do a breathalyzer and that one is mandatory. You may ask for a witness to be present (they will have 30 minutes to get to the station)
@@renderuntoblender Its the same way in Illinois! If you dont submit to it the its off to lock up. She would have been screwed here either way!
I remember working a 12 hour shift once in heavy steel toed shoes and after driving home I could barely walk across the parking lot to my apartment. I'm in decent shape for my age but I pushed myself way beyond my limits at a very physical job. If a cop saw me he'd have assumed I was hammered and there would be no way I could do that test. I was shuffling my feet to get in the door so I could pass out on the bed but I'd have gladly taken the kitchen floor just after the entry door.
Why wasn't a breathalyzer used? Why did it take 6 months for the results to come back? With such stakes, you'd think other actions could have been taken.
Maybe somebody wanted her child and set her up. These police officers behavior was illegal. So was the State kidnappers. It's hard not to wonder if somebody wanted her child and used the system to kidnap the child. This was a kidnapping, plain and simple. The police had a thousand other ways they could have handled this situation. The fact that they arrested her for a DUI when she wasn't even drunk says volumes to me.
She probably denied it 😂 because they get blood if the person denies the breathalyzer
@@Dair_y why would she deny it though?
@@cinnamorollgirl4961 I don’t know, maybe she was drunk some people deny it cause you go to jail and takes longer to get a blood test so she could be sober when it comes back, but they do breathalyzer then blood test once you get to jail
@@Dair_y but she wasnt drunk though it said so on the video
This is absolutely insane and so scary. I had a terrible car accident where the car flipped and I was totally sober. It was break failure. And when the cop was asking questions I was nervous af cause I literally almost died. I even apologized to him for being erratic but my body literally went into shock. He was standoffish but he didn’t think I needed a sobriety test or anything like that. Which I would have understood if he did want to check for that. And done my best. This is why I am so distrustful of cops though is cause of stuff like this.
I'm speechless. I'm sorry for the mother especially her child.
100% believe that a 12 hour shift could cause you to behave erratically and fail a field sobriety test. As a student nurse myself I can tell you the job is not glamorous and you often see many nurses drinking energy drinks and coffee just to survive the long shifts.
They do several 12 hour shifts
You can't pass or fail a field test
I really think it’s stupid to make anybody work 12 hour shifts. It’s all about cutting costs and not about anybody else’s health. They could rotate people on 8 hour shifts if they wanted to.
@@ramlethalvalentinedestroye1784 yes you can. If you "pass" it means they deemed you to be sober, and if you "fail" they deemed you intoxicated. No offense, but I don't understand what's difficult about that.
@@JillyBean_1987 What's difficult about that is you have no clue what you're talking about. Google right now If you can pass or fail a field sobriety test when you educate yourself get back to me
WHY would it take SIX MONTHS for lab results? I'm also a Nurse and that's more than ridiculous. C'mon Tennessee what's happened to y'all? Have the courts gone crazy like the rest of our corrupt world? 🤬 I hope and pray that this Nurse can sue y'all.
Don't even bother asking about rape kits if this surprises you
I am so angry for this lady this is SO BAD. UGH.
I hope this lasy gets a lawyer! This is horrible. My mom is a nurse and if this had happened to her someone would be getting fired
As a medical professional she risks losing her license/job as well as a driver's license and child and her car and being in prison. Because of neurological issues I can't pass a field sobriety test. This is insane. This poor woman. That poor baby, 9 weeks away from the mama. Definitely need a different daycare.
Whoever called from the daycare needs to mind their own business.
She should sue that Daycare Company asap
Having been injured and suffered a traumatic brain injury I would never pass this test or any other sobriety test ! I no longer drive of my own choice as I don’t feel 100% capable but can pass any driving test they want to put me through!
You wouldn’t lose your driver’s license from a DUI 😂. Armchair wannabe lawyers spreading misinformation
@@jeffhufana2389 nah, sue the police.
I am the least coordinated person on the planet who's filled with so much anxiety. I could see something like this happening to me, sadly 😩 So sad and I would imagine traumatizing as well.
Yup that’s America for you! Elite masons country
This is my excuse for not learning how to drive at 28. But i also live in mumbai and cannot afford a car lol
I keep a very small footprint in my life cos I know I could be done for anything by the cops, I don't have any qualities of an 'innocent' person. I escaped a home invasion charge because I was at a night church service and my alibi was solid. And even my neighbours were convinced I was a suspect.
Same here, Im disabled and do medical cannabis, i dont smoke when i drive but im such a painful mess and stressed out driving that I always think theyd arrest me anyways, cops have abducted me before for less.
I have myositis and suffer from anxiety add to that my migraine auras sometimes render me unable to speak coherently, this is something that could potentially happen to me as well :s
Sue for millions.6 months to get test back shouldn't take more than week.
This is DISGUSTING!
Absolutely heart breaking.I can not imagine going through this.Her poor kid wow
I'm more concern about the mother.. 12 hours shafted as a nurse caring for the Covid-19 patients who don't believe the virus is real.
In California driving under Adderall is a DUI also you can't drive under prescription drugs or weed. This video didn't even mention if she still got charged for a DUI. It just said she wasn't drunk. DWI is driving while intoxicated
😮Regardless of pass or fail...it was an incorrect arrest, and her son spent nine weeks away from her. The police made a mistake and this woman deserves compensation for that.
I completely agree. Have to get rid of qualified immunity.
@@aquariusmoon771 ha good luck with anyone being a cop without qualified immunity.
@@dragom7171 "Good people have nothing to be afraid of" Or does that not apply to police officer?
An innocent civilian was hauled off to jail and had her son taken away over a bogus test. She should sue and I hope she wins and gets paid. A large settlement will force the cops to change their policy or retrain officers
@@lamar310 Agreed!
This is so sad. It seems like she’s gone through enough and then she gets arrested for DUI when she wasn’t drunk.
There's no reason why a blood test for alcohol should take 6 months to come back from a lab. Personally, I think she should have grounds for a lawsuit. She was stigmatized, kept from her child for 9 weeks, and her life was in ruins. Not to mention the trauma this caused for her son. I would definitely be seeking to file a lawsuit.
This is so........unconscionable. Traumatizing innocent people unnecessarily because of a failed test that can't be relied upon for accuracy? Wow, the power given to law enforcement and justice to recklessly cause extreme damage to people's lives is "criminal"
its sad, but what else can be done? as shown in the video, it took 6 MONTHS for a blood test to come back and the charges to be dropped. its the best and quickest way to do it, even if its not 100% accurate
Well I looked it up she can get charged for reckless driving if she crashed due to being exhausted being tired isn't illgeal but if your actions will impaired result into an accident you can get charged for reckless driving
@photag216 im not sure what a breathalyzer is. explain please?
@@trinny_y a breathalyzer is a thing you blow into and it sees how much alcohol is in your breath
@photag216 the problem is a breathalyzer can only test for alcohol it can't test for other drugs like maraunia, meth, heroine ect.
I'm a very wobbly person and lose my balance pretty much every day. "Tests" like that shouldn't be a thing
It's xenophobic! And albiesm She must sue the cops and worker unbelievable!!
I'm the same way, have to catch myself, several times a day.
Scoliosis messes with my balance a lot so I’d fail this easy
Yeah sometimes I'll just be standing still doing nothing and suddenly I have to catch myself from leaning either to my left or right. And it happens irrespective of how tired I am. This would be dangerous if I were ever pulled over under suspicion of being under the influence.
Same here
If there’s types of confusion like that, then there’s has to be a change in the DUI test.
Of course she’s gonna fail a field sobriety test if she’s a nurse. She’s exhausted. And she’s NOT slurring her speech.
6 months to get results back from a blood test?! That’s insane.
the drug test kits the police use to test for the presence of drugs doesnt work and OFTEN shows a positive for illegal drugs where none was ever present . many local and state news stories have been done that show on camera FALSE positive tests results of these test kits being used by the police AND the police know this but continue to USE these drug test kits to this day !!
They not only traumatized her they traumatized her son by putting him in foster care
As a person with Autism, this just makes me not want to drive because of things like this. If police aren’t well trained enough to recognize ADD or ADHD then what’s to stop them from assuming I’m on drugs or assume that I have been drinking?
As much as I want to get a drivers license, it’s things like this that deters me from getting one.
Same.
Yea
Yeah. I can drive just fine, that's not the scary or hard part. It's dealing with other dumbasses on the road and knowing that the police have this sort of power.
I'm sorry the world is not as accesible as it should be... Hope it gets better.
I just take the bus 😫😫
Sue the hell out of them all!
This is completely unacceptable… heartbreaking
I can't tell you how many times I drove home from a shift and I couldn't remember how I got home. 95% or more hospital employees will tell you the same thing.
Agreed 100%.
Hospital workers do a lot of double shifts and overtime.
That....
Definitely not safe
You shouldn’t be driving, you can kill someone like that🤦♂️
the medical system exploits them, especially medical interns who can have shifts that last days... we need to get rid of the ama.
Me. 6mo for drug test results?
Reminds me of Utah State Trooper Lisa Steed. She would pull people over for no legitimate reason (she'd claimed that they were "swaying" or "driving erratically") and arrest them for DUI despite them being completely sober. She even made Trooper Of The Year until it was found out that most if not all of her 750 DUI "arrests" were of innocent people and she was fired. She basically did this because she felt like it.
How is she still living?
Just fired? No charges or anything?
@@Freeblud she needs to go to prison those women in prison will make her suffer
@@Freeblud no she got to quit like a good pig
They get incentives for high numbers of DUI arrests. Promotions, better shifts; the department can actually receive grants for making more DUI arrests. It is all incintivised competition.
Any pig who charges you with dui and your not should be fired immediately and sued for civil rights violations and loose there right to be a civil servant for life….
Sue Sue Sue! As a fellow nurse I am over this from these incompetent officers. So Sue tge heck out of them and get them for their jobs
Why not just use the Breathalyzer right then and there?
I'm sure the reason is something like "we don't know what you're on, it might not be alcohol, but it's something". Yeah... like being tired.
That would involve the use of common sense, of which these cops had none. ACAB.
I was gonna say the same thing
What ISNT wrong with this country 🤦🏼♀️
i moved away 10 years ago, best decision of my LIFE
Yeah, that's a mystery even Batman can't solve.
@@stephenmocanu408 where did you move to?
Me....
One reason why I don't want to leave my house very often anymore.....
So sad!
That's insane. A fantastic way to build confidence in our judicial system, especially for the kid.
It's clear they didn't do a Breathalyzer because they wanted to arrest her right away and look good.
She probably denied it 😂 because they ask you if you want to take it if you say no they then draw blood
@@Dair_y That would be likely however it's not likely she denied it because if you listen carefully they said your under arrest for DUI even though they didn't even do the blood test yet.
The ego can be a scary thing at the wrong place & time. People who let the ego primarily control themselves end up looking stupid more times than not.
@@B_Lo95 I agree it can cause alot of damage.
I have ADHD and sometimes people mistake me for being drunk/tipsy at times when I’m just unknowingly day dreaming, exhausted, and uncoordinated.
Many judges rubber stamp whatever the cops say or do.
A friend's dad was a retired highway patrolman and he told me "no one passes a field sobriety test". Refuse to take it because it'll be that much less evidence they'll have to use against you
This happened to me, only the cop said "controlled substance," and also added "in public." Ruined my career, even though drug test proved I was innocent. It stays on your background check as an arrest, still, forever. Laws need changed.
Get it expunged from your record. If you get a court order to expunge it the police department will expunge the records from their files. Without it they won't.
what career did u even have man lol
Sue!
@@mattw919 nothing is truly expunged. And in many cases it's considered fraud to say you've never been arrested even if it's expunged.
That's so upsetting. I'm sorry they couldn't realize you were sober. The laws do need to change. I wish you well. If you explain it to employers I am sure they will understand the circumstances. I know people at current job that have been convicted of dwi but can still work.
Why no breathalyzer? Wouldn't that have cleared things up right on the spot....
Yes, it would have. Those officers obviously didn't care about anything but making the arrest. Can't imagine how her child felt being away from his mother for over two months, even if he was treated well in foster care. Those police caused a family undue stress.
Because it would prove she was right.
Well yea. They have not known and they have an after action report for the next time it won’t happen again
Uh not to burst y’all’s bubbles but breathalyzers don’t work on anything but alcohol. She didn’t have alcohol on her breath so the test they did was the only way they could have a cause yo arrest. I say good job on the system for doing what they were supposed to do in a situation like this.
Any hospital lab can have a full panel done in three days, any third party lab shouldn't take more than a week for results. It's absolutely unacceptable it took that long.
Sue them for everything. They made the wrong call and that judge is obviously uneducated
So six months after they destroyed her life they reveal that she wasn’t guilty. What didn’t they breathalyse and drug test her? And why did it take six months for a blood test to come back?
Exactly what I was thinking like I don’t think I’ve ever had to wait longer then 2 weeks and honestly that’s pushing it.
Im guessing someone wanted that child. A little bribe money thrown around can get you a child via dirty cops and dirty State workers. Everybody broke the Law in this case. Everybody knew she wasn't drunk. They just wanted the child . Once a child is in State custody , it's very hard to get the child back. State workers will just lie and falsify paperwork until they illegally get final custody. Tbh, given how corrupt the system is, she's lucky she got that child back.
Corruption, it’s a simple answer
I believe most officers do have the breathalizer tests on them. If she had done one, that would have proven she wasn't drunk and there would have been no probable cause.
They knew they were 1,000% wrong and didn’t want to take responsibility. It doesn’t take that long for a blood test to come back.
They should jail the cop for wrongful imprisonment, illegally detaining, lieing under oath, and any possible charge should be issued. Time for them to be held accountable.
Not even the cops the daycare people. They should be sued for everything
Not the cops fault. The nurse failed all the tests. She could have explained the situation or asked for a breathalyzer though.
@@KnoxvilleRailfanProductions nope it is the cops fault
I guess it must be the test's fault then lmao
@@KnoxvilleRailfanProductions yeah sure, immediately after she failed, she was handcuffed and being told that she was arrested for DUI.
Average people would become distress by such action and won't be able to think that they may have the right to request for breathing test..
The fact that it takes 6 months to complete a blood test *while an innocent person's life hangs in the balance* is the real crime here.
I agree, I think the police had every reason in the world to arrest her, but the fact it took an entire 6 months for a blood test is ridiculous.
Hope the cops get same treatment as they did to this lady.
I always failed the sobriety tests😅, so now I just ask for the breathalyzer and continue on my way 😊
And they should have given one to her before they decided to arrest her. The system is horrible with scums in charge of and that includes the police officers.
Good point! They should have tested her with a breathalyzer.
That's crazy her kids was in foster care for 9 weeks I hope she sues that department for everything they have smh.
Wow 9 weeks in fostercare is so traumatizing for that kid. As a foster parent, that is brutal.
After 12 gruelling hours of saving lives that's what you'll be treated great! What a great country to live in
Sobriety test is so stupid. In the UK they only use breathalyser tests. How can it take 6 months to get a blood test back?
Because they have no incentive for it to be fast unless it's in their best interest.
She needs to sue the police department for a lot of money. What her son was put through, what it did to her career. 🤬
Unfortunately, they had probable cause per the law & followed it. They didn’t do anything wrong, despite the bad things that came from it. However, there should have been no reason it took so long to get the labs back, & no reason it took so long for her to get her son back! A BAL & a UDS come back in just a couple hours! She could have explained that she was a nurse coming off of a long, exhausting 12 hr. shift, & literally slept in a holding cell while they waited for the results, then they could have let them both go home when the tests came back negative.
@Sre Riy thas not the excuse and the police force do not even apologize...
Officer friendly to your help
Litigation and compensation needs to happen. And I'm talking about, at least, $1 million dollars, per incident, like this. Because the police literally turned This woman's life upside down. And the city or county, and the police departments, need to be held accountable
Just because the charges were dropped doesn’t mean it was stricken from her record. This will follow her for years to come. Ridiculous
Facts
No it won't.
It won't stop her from buying anything like a car or house and if she had the charges dropped it won't stop her from getting any jobs or places to live.
Not anymore, it's deleted once it's dropped or found not guilty. Not like it used to be. I have a few charges that were dropped or not guilty and I have a clean record now. In 2006 it was a different story even though I never had a conviction I had several charges on my record. At least in FL, MN and MA it's that way now.
@@nicholasmaddalena1451 many job applications still have “have you ever been arrested” on them.
@@evilsharkey8954 and when you detail on the application that the charges were dropped then everything is fine...
Why would you think they would punish you after being found innocent?
I'd definitely sue the police department. This is another example of the government saying "we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing"
OMG!!! This is complete injustice!! She needs to sue the police for millions!
She should. They’ll try to dodge it by saying they followed procedure and that could have been true but now that a child is involved and it turns out to be she was innocent. Man, it’s a whole other level now! Millions for sure tho.
I want to hear fron the daycare people and why they made the call.
This is so heartbreaking!! I honestly don't understand why she wasn't given a breathalyzer or a blood test? Why do we still rely on police officers "observations"? That's not right. We have all this technology, and we can make tests on a massive scale for Covid, why is it so hard to give someone a quick blood or urine test to make SURE that the person is under the influence? Those field sobriety tests worked well when we had no other choice, but now we have lots of choices, but police departments don't have the funding so they could do things like that. My uncle was a cop with the LAPD, and was one of the very first drug recognition experts (DRE) and is the person that discovered that you could look at someone's eyes and figure out what they've taken, whether drugs or alcohol. And more recently he's invented a machine that you can hold up to someone's eyes and it tells you what drugs (or alcohol) they're on. They're expensive, but if every department had one machine, maybe horror stories like this one would happen less? Because waiting six weeks for a blood test is absolutely RIDICULOUS!!!
Yea this makes zero sense to me. A breathalyzer would have showed she had no drinks in her system, also they said 6 MONTHS not 6 weeks
So in other words, actual real exhaustion from a hard day's work ruined everything?
Yea once I heard "nurse" I immediately thought "she must've been tired and really exhausted" haven worked 70-80+hour weeks myself with many nurses. Sad that it took so long to prove her innocence.
America be like: need to work 60+ hour weeks to make ends meet, need a car to get anywhere but dont drive exhausted, thats a big no no!
No day care employees who didn't actually care & two jerk cops ruined everything.
When I was in high school learning about the effects of sleep deprivation on driving, I used to think, " oh please, as if it's that bad that it makes you like a drunk?" But now as an adult working odd hours, I totally understand and feel what we were taught.
I have even been so sleep deprived that my speech was slow and somewhat slurred. I've also heard of people hallucinating from sleep deprivation ( thank God I never experienced it)
A cowardly cover up. Thanks for the corrupt judge. When your wrong, you're wrong.
The judge only said probable cause to protect their reputation this is sickening. Discussing!