Utah Nurse Alex Wubbels Gets $500,000 In Settlement After Controversial Arrest

University Hospital nurse Alex Wubbels who violently arrested in July by a Salt Lake City police officer reached a settlement of $500,000 with all the parties involved Tuesday.

Wubbels’ controversial arrest after she refused to let the officer Jeff Payne draw blood from an unconscious patient without his consent, was recorded on officers’ body camera, and soon became viral, leading to widespread outrage.

CW affiliate KTLA reported that Wubbels had never filed a civil lawsuit and announced that all the “U.-related and Salt Lake City-related parties”—who would have potentially been named if a lawsuit had been filed— agreed to the payment.

Wubbles’ attorney, Karra Porter said: “There will be no legal lawsuit. This part of this is over.”

Matthew Rojas, the spokesman for Salt Lake mayor told reporters that both the city and the university had agreed to pay Wubbels $250,000 each.

“Salt Lake City has been focused first and foremost on ensuring policies and procedures are changed so things like this don’t happen again, and we are glad we could come to a resolution with nurse Wubbles,” he said.

Wubbles also announced that she will use part of that money to launch a new initiative to make body camera video more accessible to all residents in Utah involved in a police incident, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.

“We all deserve to know the truth. And the truth comes when you see the actual raw footage. And that’s what happened in my case. No matter how truthful I was in telling my story, it was nothing compared to what people saw and the visceral reaction people experienced when watching the footage,” she said.

We’re hoping the discussion about body cameras continues,” Porter added. “Thanks to Alex, there will be more transparency as body cam footage becomes more readily available in Utah.”

“I am not in the business of setting anyone up for failure. I want us to be successful in moving forward. And I think this is a small step we can provide to enable that potential success if we are going to start asking the police departments to have body cameras,” Wubbels said outside the Salt Lake City Police.

The nurse said she would also make a donation to the Utah Nurses Association and help spearhead the #EndNurseAbuse campaign by the American Nurses Association.

Payne was suspended and later fired from the Salt Lake City Police department after the controversial arrest in which he was seen on video forcefully handcuffing and roughly detaining Wubbels.

In a disciplinary letter obtained by the Associated Press, the Salt Lake City police chief, Mike Brown, wrote that Detective Payne’s behavior was “inappropriate, unreasonable, unwarranted, discourteous, disrespectful,” and had caused “significant disrepute” to the department.

"I just feel betrayed, I feel angry, I feel a lot of things," Wubbels had said during a news conference after the video's release. "I am still confused. I’m a healthcare worker. The only job I have is to keep my patients safe.”