POP CULTURE: PARAMEDIC ASSAULTED BY STATE TROOPERS

IF YOU HAVEN’T HEARD ABOUT THE IGNORANT, RAGE-LADEN ATTACK ON A BLACK PARAMEDIC BY A COUPLE OF WHITE STATE TROOPERS A COUPLE DAYS AGO, CHECK OUT THE DETAILS BELOW. THERE IS ALSO VIDEO OF THE INCIDENT ON INSIDE EDITION’S WEBSITE. CHECK IT OUT WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE. CHEERS.

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It was an extraordinary confrontation as a highway patrolman struggled violently with a paramedic while a patient inside the ambulance screams. The incident was caught-on-tape.

It all started when an Oklahoma highway patrol car, sirens blaring, passed the ambulance on the local interstate.

The officers felt the driver should have pulled over to let them pass and believed they saw the driver make an obscene gesture.

The incident was captured on the officers' dash cam.

Officer: I'm going to give you a ticket for failure to yield, and when I go by you and say, 'What's going on?' You don't need to give me no hand gestures now. I won't put up with that [expletive]. You understand me?

Paramedic: And I won't put up with you talking to my driver like that.

Officer: I ain't listening to you, buddy. You get your [expletive] back in that ambulance or I'll take you in. I'm talking to the driver.

Paramedic: Take me in if you would. We've got a patient in this unit right now.

Suddenly the confrontation turned physical.

Paramedic: I've got a patient in this...

Officer: Get your [expletive] around! Turn around! Turn around!

Officer: Hey! Hey! You better turn around now!

Inside the ambulance a woman was suffering from chest pains. Her relatives, in a car that was following the ambulance, joined in the argument. One started recording the drama with a cell phone.

Officer: You're going to jail, you understand me? You're under arrest.

Paramedic: Okay.

Officer: You are under arrest.

Paramedic: And I'm going to press charges for assaulting.

One patrolman put the paramedic in a choke hold.

Finally the police officers let the ambulance continue and did not arrest anyone. The patient recovered.

The drama fast became one of the most viewed videos on YouTube since the incident happened in May.

Patrolman Daniel Martin denies any wrong doing but has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.

POP CULTURE: DIABETES MOM ON TRIAL

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DIABETES MOTHER ON TRIAL

A mom is on trial for failing to get her 11-year-old diabetic daughter medical treatment because she believed God would heal her.

The jury heard a dramatic 911 call as a family friend vainly performed CPR on the girl, Madeline Neuman.

The child's aunt also called 911:

Caller: "My sister-in-law, she's very religious. She believes in faith instead of doctors. She believes her daughter is in a coma now and she's relying on faith."

"This young girl has diabetes, not a life-threatening illness necessarily, a very treatable form of diabetes...her parents decided to pray on it, and she died," says legal analyst Jami Floyd.

The child's mother, Leilani Neumann, of Weston, Wisconsin has pled not guilty to reckless homicide. She collapsed during the trial and the judge ordered her treated by paramedics in spite of her religious beliefs.

"You can't enjoy religious freedom if you're going to put your child's life at stake, and your fundamental right to parent is not absolute if it's going to endanger your child," Floyd says.

SOURCE: INSIDE EDITION