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Ex-Salt Lake City officer who arrested Utah nurse Alex Wubbels over blood draw says in lawsuit he was made the ‘fall man’

The Salt Lake City police officer who was fired after handcuffing a nurse who tried to stop him from performing a blood draw on a patient without a warrant is suing his former employer.

The long-promised lawsuit describes 27-year police veteran Jeff Payne as a rooster in a “cockfight staged and orchestrated by the person in charge at the Salt Lake City Police Department and those in charge of the burn unit at the University of Utah.”

The other bird, the lawsuit states, was nurse Alex Wubbels. Both were employees “merely doing what they were told to do.