Bad day for a fire Captain in Keene, NH. I came across a video of him on Twitter this morning. It’s being tweeted around the fire / EMS circles. Apparantly this Captain from a New Hampshire fire department was caught on video making some erroneous claims about HIPPA privacy and then swiping a dudes cell phone camera. If you’d like to watch the video you can find it, with additional commentary, here . I’m guessing this captain probably didn’t read my Four Lessons From The OSP State Trooper EMS Mess  post. I’m afraid this stuff is going to happen to us more and more as cell phone and digital videos become more popular. The guys shooting this particular video have a clear political objective. They could care less about the incident or the victim. They are so caught up in their own freedom crusade that they feel justified in disregarding the privacy (and dignity) of the patient and the ability of the uniformed personal to just do their job unaccosted. The story they want to tell is a story about public safety personnel abusing their power and they’re willing to be incredibly obnoxious to try to bait one of us into the game. In this case they hit the jackpot. First the captain makes a false statement into the camera. Then he threatens them. Then he physically takes the camera away and gives it to someone else on scene.

Original Source of Be Nice (The Keene Video)