A disgruntled EMT got into a physical altercation with an NYPD transit officer yesterday, reportedly shoving the cop out of the back of an ambulance on 4th Avenue and Pacific Street in Brooklyn. According to the Post, EMT Andrew Haley got into the scuffle with the officer while aiding a 59-year-old woman with chest pains.
Haley, who was about to give the woman an electrocardiogram, reportedly asked the unidentified cop to close the ambulance door for the procedure. When the officer refused, Haley did what anyone aiding someone who is already having heart problems would probably do, and shoved the cop away from the ambulance. The dispute devolved to a heated exchange of words, but spectators were presumably still treated to a memorable face-off between two city officials, the urban equivalent of watching a python fight an alligator or maybe a scorpion fight a centipede.
Haley was cuffed and taken to a nearby precinct, but the charges were later dropped. "The EMT was arrested for obstructing governmental administration. That arrest was voided,” Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told reporters yesterday. “Some dispute arose inside the ambulance, the EMT wanted the police officer to leave. The police officer didn’t want to leave. So that is the nature of the dispute.” Ah, that clears everything up, next question!
