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Growing DUI Trend: Cops Armed with Gun, Club?and Needle

By Lawrence Taylor

I’ve posted in the past about the emergence in Texas and Utah of a new practice in drunk driving law enforcement: bypassing a licensed blood technician and letting the cop draw the blood himself — on the highway.  See Blood Draws in the Back Seat by the Dashboard Light, Would You Want a Cop Taking Blood from You? and Taking Blood by Force.    The scenario is rather chilling:  The frightened and struggling suspect spread-eagled on the hood of a car along the side of the road as the cop repeatedly jams a hypodermic needle into him. But the practice has continued to spread, as today’s news story from Arizona shows:    More Police Learning to Draw Blood in DUIs Phoenix, AZ...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).