She was in a holding area waiting to make a court appearance on a warrant for failure to appear for a domestic relations case (domestic violence perhaps?). The information that she had a warrant means that she had been arrested on a prior occasion and that she was supposed to appear in court, and she failed to appear. She can hardly advance an excuse at this time that she didn't know she was in custody. It would be helpful if we knew how long she was in the holding area before she took the pill. Did she sit down and immediately start taking some medication before her property could be inventoried? Because a person in custody cannot take medication unless it is administered by someone from the jail medical staff.
An officer told her to spit it out, and she said she couldn't, meaning she couldn't because she "had already swallowed the other pills." Ok, WHAT other pills? The article doesn't say if they were antibiotic or several Tylenol with codeine. This would certainly be relevant wouldn't it?
She was taken to a local hospital and treated and released. Released to where? Was she transported to the jail? Was she released to go home? If so, what happened to the charge she showed up for court on?
Gaps.
There are gaps, you’re right. I can only go by what was on the video, along with what I know what and who police have to deal with daily.
If it had turned out that the woman had died from what she took, and there was no way for the cop to know for certain what she took, every one of the anti-police members here would have been all over the police for having not taken the proper precautions to ensure her well-being.