Dave Statter STATter911 Reporting (click for more)
May 29, 2009
On Sunday, Diana Walkup and Peggy Skaggs were returning from the Paden Cemetery when they witnessed the confrontation between Oklahoma Highway Patrol’s Daniel Martin and the Creek Nation ambulance crew of Maurice White Jr. and Paul Franks. In a written statement, the women indicate they were horrified by the patrolman’s behavior.
On Thursday, Walkup talked by phone with KOKI-TV’s Abbie Alford, telling the reporter, “He came running around the back of the ambulance, ‘I am going to arrest you for obstruction of justice.’ We thought ‘good Lord what’s happened?’”
Here are excerpts from Alford’s report:
When paramedic Maurice White got out of the ambulance to tell the trooper they had a patient en route to the hospital, Walkup says what happened next is appalling.
“Then he [White] put his hands up as if, I don’t know I can’t say what he was thinking but he was afraid he was going to get hit,” says Walkup.
“I saw what I saw and I was just, like I said horrified at the treatment of the family,” says Walkup.
Alford confirmed with Creek Nation officials that at the time of the traffic stop the ambulance lights and siren were not on.
A statement from patient Stella Jordan is also now available. Critical Care Paramedic Maurice White Jr., who has been involved in EMS for more than 30-years, was treating Ms. Jordan:
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