patient s family starts to gather. they have been following the ambulance to the hospital. the patient s husband reminds the trooper that his wife is waiting in the ambulance, but the argument continues. [ shouting ] you turn around now. calm down. the trooper releases the paramedic and the crowd breaks up. paramedic white returns to his ambulance, where his patient is extremely distraught. if you can imagine yourself, you re on a cot in an ambulance, you re basically helpless in that position, and you can hear your family members screaming. she was extremely upset. what s worse, the confrontation s not over yet. the patient s husband tries again to intervene. my wife needs to go to the hospital.
i understand that. if he wouldn t have come out here you could have been on the way about five minutes ago, partner. now step back. the driver tries his best to defuse the tense situation. i m sorry, i didn t see you coming. i was just trying to talk to you about it. i didn t need your manager or whoever it is in the back, paramedic, whoever happens to be in charge, to get out, okay? you understand? yes, sir, i do. trooper martin tells the driver that he plans to arrest the paramedic. he s going to jail. yes. you don t jump out and talk to a state trooper like that. you understand me? i don t care who you are. you re not running code. you re not running emergency, okay? all right? i didn t just get up behind you and turn on my red lights and siren. i ve been going hot over here, you understand? yes, sir, i do. the video shows the ambulance wasn t running lights and sirens. white says that s because he didn t want to excite the patient. but now, that s a moot point.
is released later that day. the paramedic then turns himself in. i went back outside to the second trooper on scene and i told him that at this point, you can arrest me, i released my patient care to the nurse. but after everything that happened, white is never arrested. trooper martin did not respond to interview requests through his lawyer, but in a press conference, his lawyer says paramedic white delayed the patient by not letting martin talk directly to driver paul franks. the trooper martin s belief was if i could sit down and talk to paul, that we could have ended this very quickly. mr. white is trying to control the scene. paramedic white says the incident was a fluid situation and in the heat of the moment, he did what he thought was right. i did not deem it in the best interest of the patient to permit him to handcuff and arrest me at that time.
give up. somehow, he maneuvers his disabled vehicle to face his pursuers. i heard our engine rev up and i knew what deputy conway was going to do. he didn t announce it to me but i could tell he was going to ram him. conway rams the ford taurus at close to 60 miles an hour with the officers speeding toward him, davis actually opens his door so he can get a clearer shot, but he misses. as the smoke clears, deputy conway s okay but hildenstab, whose seat belt is broken, is thrown into the windshield. it had blinded me. when i tried to open my eyes, i had all kinds of glass shards and stuff in my eyes. stay down! stay down! hildenstab s leg is broken and he s writhing in pain on the ground. the idaho policeman drags him behind conway s car to take cover. stay down. stay down right here. right here. stay down.
i understand that. if he wouldn t have come out here you could have been on the way about five minutes ago, partner. now step back. the driver tries his best to defuse the tense situation. i m sorry, i didn t see you coming. i was just trying to talk to you about it. i didn t need your manager or whoever it is in the back, paramedic, whoever happens to be in charge, to get out, okay? you understand? yes, sir, i do. trooper martin tells the driver that he plans to arrest the paramedic. he s going to jail. yes. you don t jump out and talk to a state trooper like that. you understand me? i don t care who you are. you re not running code. you re not running emergency, okay? all right? i didn t just get up behind you and turn on my red lights and siren. i ve been going hot over here, you understand? yes, sir, i do. the video shows the ambulance wasn t running lights and sirens. white says that s because he didn t want to excite the patient. but now, that s a moot point. as