Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Missourian: Police, hospital support their own in Graham fiasco

As expected, Columbia Police officials are backing their man's version of the events that occurred following the DWI arrest of Sen. Chuck Graham, D-Columbia, and University Hospital officials and Graham's lawyer are disputing that version. The Columbia Missourian continues to offer solid coverage of the fallout of the arrest of one of the state's best known legislators:

A spokeswoman for University Hospital said the hospital staff followed appropriate procedures when they tried to prevent Columbia police Officer Donald Weaver from taking a sample of Sen. Chuck Graham’s urine from the hospital to test it for alcohol.

Meanwhile, Columbia Police Chief Randy Boehm said Weaver acted according to police procedure when he took Graham’s urine.


The police report can be found at this link.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

“The officer was oddly aggressive,” Wyse said. “It struck me as a person fixated on something other than the normal professional agenda.”

A headline writer's dream:

Paranolid police probe politician's pee

Crazed cop confiscates catheter

Drunk Democrat duels deranged detective

Anonymous said...

I don't think he was overly aggressive, he is a policeman and he was working a case, everyone remember there is a victim or 2 in the accident he caused. The officer knew if that urine was dumped the case would not be the same, sure he got blood later but at that time he didn't know if he would get blood so he was adament to get the urine. If I was a victim and an officer working my case just joined the "good 'ol boys" group I would be disappointed that he forgot who he was sworn to protect and serve. That Doc should be ashamed that he ever acted that way first in fromt of a patient and second that he was threatening a policeman, he should have better sense than that.

Anonymous said...

Ever heard of HIPAA or the Fourth Amendment?

Anonymous said...

yep and neither were vioated in this action.

Anonymous said...

He hope he sues the Hospital and the cop and wins. Drunk or not, Republican or Democrat

The Gestapo has free run in this country.