A woman seeking treatment in emergency room arrested & died in police custody

well they obviously had no idea she was dying

I blame the hospital from the info i see (but I also wonder why they called the police in the first place)

 

Her family will get a good settlement.

That's better than most people get when their loved ones die for strange reasons.

 

Nope, they obviously didn't know her condition, after all, the doctor said nothing was wrong with her! They ASSUMED she was either "crazy" or a drug seeker. But the officers could have set her on the bed and not the floor!

I too blame the hospital and when I told my husband about it, he agreed.

She was in pain and it seems no one believed her. Then she stops her crying/yelling/whatever and they go to check on her...

SAD. But all too real. Wonder if the hospital would have found her problem if she hadn't been homeless and had insurance?!?!

 

Too little, too late.

Hopefully this will change the way EVERYONE is treated in ERs from now on!

 

Yes, they would have, or at least done some proper diagnostics in an attempt to find her problem.


The poor are just supposed to disappear or something...

I wouldn't count on that...

 

this is just awefull how can they just drag ya out of a er. room like that then have the person die is our country,s law enforcement going nut,s

 

The level of care with and without insurance is so drastically different. We have people dying of hernias. Welcome to America.

 

Indeed... I see it as a frank indicator of the fact that medical and police services are in fact not here to help people. There is so much in criminal justice, public and emergency services that belie the idealist style facades shown to the public in order to have us mentally consume ideal when they couldn't be further from the truth.

Medical services are money harvesting mechanisms and police services restock the warehouse network known as the prison system. The woman's needs were not considered likely because she was judged not to have any money and she was treated as a vagrant- an opening step toward justifying incarceration.

 

after watching that surveillance video which i didn't get a chance to earlier before previously replying in this thread, seems to me that the lady acted with dignity at all times, both in the hospital and in the police vehicle, and guessing that she refused to leave her seat in the wheelchair because of the pain she was in, i'd have done the same too in her situation.
what i found really difficult to understand was the police reaction, firstly tipping her out of the wheelchair onto the floor, but then subsequently taking her out to the police car by wheelchair, and then knowing that she was having difficulty walking which she would have done with both the ankle pain, chest pain and difficulty breathing from the blood clots in the lungs which she would have had as she was that near to death [okay, fair enough i suppose that the police wouldn't have known about the blood clots at that time], but to have then grabbed her by the ankles and then draggiing her to the cell in that way knowing about the ankle pain, is beyond belief.

 

Poor lady

They probably didnt bother checking her out completly....

NO ONE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT ANYONE ANYMORE AND ITS SICK AND SAD


Im sick of it all!!!!!!

 

Typical of the America system and the American people.
We should all be very proud of ourselves.

 

Except you, lol , like orison said that sign should be on the corporate prisons doors. Terrible how everyone treated that poor woman, just disgusting

 

I wouldn't usually say this about cops, but they seem to have been put up against the wall. The hospital told them the woman was in okay condition, and ordered her locked up....

Doctors should be charged with some sort of manslaughter by dereliction of duty, and removed from work, in the meantime, for malpractice.

 

Yeah if she was cleared by the hospital , it takes the liability off the police department . While I think homocide is a stretch for criminal pursuits , certainly civil malpractice will be used .

For one thing The insane hours these interns are made to work should be outlawed . Human fatigue has to play some role in some malpractice cases. It's a throw back to long ago , they refuse to change . Almost every other industry where peoples saftey could be at risk have laws limiting hours worked .

Airline pilots , truck drivers can only work so many hours in a day . Doctors / interns who work in complicated , confusing high stress enviorments . Should have the same work limits on them . Sleep depravation is dangerous , to patients and the residents . I'm not saying that's what happened in this case . But it has to be happening in some .

Ironically you would the medical community would be at the cutting edge of human fatuige, sleep depravation and there risks . Yet their willing to ignore it in sake of old outdated traditions . That left unchecked and unchanged has to be costing their patients and employers .

Again i'm not saying that's what happened here . Yet It's something that has been ignored for far to long . That has no doubt has cost lives .

 

She was treated like a piece of shit....... Its sad these people ONLY CARE ABOUT $$$

 

The police had to carry her to the jail cell because she was in so much pain and couldn't walk, common sense should of kicked in and they should of realized of how critical she was. The woman should of been able to walk into the jail cell. The hospital and the police are both at fault, imo.

 

I had a pulmonary embolism a few years back. I should have died,of course,but I have insurance,so some doctors took the time to figure out what was wrong,put me in the hospital and the blood thinner desolved the clots. If I hadn't had insurance? Think we can see the answer to that.

 

The defended their actions ... what a crock . . . they murdered her, plain and simple.

 

It's not the cops' fault that they had to interfere, it's the hospital's fault that they were called to interfere.

Whether it's the doctor's faults for getting it wrong is another debate; whether it's their legal requirement to get it right is yet another debate.

 

The cops threw her in a locked cage where she could not get out in order to save her own life, unattended, in a helpless and unconscious condition and left her there until she was prosecuted and sentenced and carried out by them, by the cops.

The woman couldn't even walk.

She should have been placed in a police hospital cell, and been under observation.
Obviously.

If you say that you'll kill yourself. They have to watch you by law.
They have hospital lockups, with doctors. Certainly they have these in Saint Louis.

She is Dead because of the cops, and the doctors. They should all be tried, sentenced, and hung.

They are all murderers.

On the video at the end, that Cop Sarg states that they all just figured that it was just another druggie scamming for free pain pills. She wasn't a druggie, and they are all prejudice and profiling. That alone makes it a hate/ race crime. Open and shut case.

If all drugs were legal, then she would be alive. You know, like back in George Washington's day. The FREE America.