Nah . Someone at the hospital called the cops because they thought they detected MJ. The cops don't have a choice in the situation, they have to respond. Much as I disagree with laws against MJ I don't want a situation where the cops decided what alleged crimes they are going to respond to and which they aren't.
That's giving the cops too much power. (Obviously the MJ laws need to change but that's another thread.) The Nazis aside, following orders is what we want cops to do, isn't it, not making up their own rules. If the orders are wrong let's deal with that.
They were being as respectful as they could under the circumstances, didn't cause any damage I could see, didn't provoke the guy or otherwise act like assholes. I guess they could have been more apologetic. It's not always the cops. Sometimes it's the assholes who call the cops--like all those cases of white people calling the cops on black people just living their lives.
I once had a nursing supervisor call the cops because a postop patient of mine was delerious, had pulled out all his lines and pushed his bed up against his ICU room door. Which is tough to do with fresh incisions from breast bone to pubic bone and in both groins. I sent the cops away, we calmed the guy down, and surprise he did great once the drugs wore off---the benefits of early mobilization. (A bedside nurse would never have called the cops; nurses who gravitate to management or another story.)
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