(Reuters)The Utah nurse who drew national attention after she was manhandled and arrested for refusing to let a police detective take blood from an unconscious patient said Tuesday she had reached a $500,000 settlement with Salt Lake City and the university that runs her hospital. That included the University of Utah, Salt Lake City police and several individual security officers from the university who were present for Wubbels’s arrest but declined to intervene, Porter said. Wubbels and Porter were considering filing a civil rights lawsuit, but the settlement now precludes that. The nurse had previously stressed that her main concern was protecting hospital staff and preventing the same conflict from happening again. Salt Lake City’s mayor, police chief and officials from the University of Utah apologized to Wubbels shortly after, saying she should never have been arrested for doing her job.

Source: Washington Post November 01, 2017 07:10 UTC