More information tonight on one of the most talked about stories in the news: The heated confrontation between an Oklahoma Highway patrol trooper and a paramedic who was transporting a patient to the hospital.
OHP released has now released a statement saying the trooper was provoked and that his real beef was between the ambulance driver and not the paramedic seen in the confrontation.
FOX23’s Abbie Alford spoke to one of the paramedic’s attorney who is making a demand he says that could have all the answers.
Richard O’Carroll who represents the paramedic seen in the confrontation Maurice White, says just because the two troopers released their side of what happened in the EMT/OHP scuffle doesn’t mean the whole truth is being told.
O’Carroll says he wants to know what happened before the camera on cell phone started rolling and believes the trooper’s dash cam video has the answers.
No matter how many times O’Carroll watches the cell phone video he says he’s amazed.
Behind all the noise and arguing you can hear the patient screaming. The woman suffering from heat exhaustion was in the back of the ambulance, on her way to the Prague Hospital in Okfuskee County late last month.
In the cell phone video you hear the trooper say to White, “Listen to me. I just told you that you are under arrest. You get this patient to the hospital...(inaudible).”
The video then shows the argument between White and the OHP trooper heat up, “You are under arrest, you are under arrest," says Trooper Daniel Martin to White.
White responds, "Okay, I am going to press charges on them for assault on a .... (inaudible).”
O’Carroll says the video shows no justice for his client.
"There is no lawful reason for that hold. That is an unlawful and unreasonable hold. And there is no expert that will say that's acceptable. What is this troopers problem?"
The problem according to the trooper, Daniel Martin, is that the driver of the ambulance, paramedic White’s partner gave him the finger after failing to yield on a hot call to a stolen vehicle.
In the video it shows Martin says to the driver, Paul Franks, "I've been going hot over here to help the county out over here. You understand?" Franks responds, “Yes sir. I do."
