Posted on 02/25/2023 12:26:39 AM PST by Morgana
Horrific footage released by police shows a wheelchair-bound woman slurring and pleading with police as she is arrested for refusing to leave hospital, just moments before she died from a stroke in the back of a cop car.
Knoxville Police have released their body camera video of the harrowing incident which happened at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, in Tennessee, on February 6.
Lisa Edwards, 60, had been refusing to leave the hospital and was arrested on trespassing charges when she died in the back of the police cruiser – minutes after telling cops 'you're going to kill me'.
The footage shows Lisa being taken into custody, gasping and wheezing before she tells officers that she 'can't breathe'. Her skin becomes grayer, and her voice more slurred as the footage continues. The latter is a well-known symptom of a stroke.
Authorities released the hour and 16-minute video with a warning that some of the video may be distressing. Lisa starts telling an officer that she can't get back up to the hospital, with officers struggling to get her into the back of the van before she says she needs to sit down.
Officers can be heard being brusque with her, telling her to 'help them help her' as she starts wheezing and slurring her words while wearing a hospital
One cop can be heard telling her that she's 'been medically cleared' before another says 'you weren't having any breathing problems when you were out here smoking a cigarette.'
Lisa is then told to 'stop' when she says 'I'm going to pass out', with the officer telling her 'you're going to get in there one way or another.'
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I’d say the hospital. They could have put her in the waiting room until all is assured. The police trusted the hospital having taken readings and ensured she was healthy enough to be discharged.
Both. Both contributed.
This plays out all the time.
The last people you want to see if you’re having a diabetic blood sugar problem, or stroke, or other medical problem, are the police. So many have wound up dead from the police going full-on thug on them, or ignoring the problem.
if they cleared her, they cleared her....
its a very sad situation...
Hospital it is...Cops see drug and boozy people out of it all the time...cops trusted the hospital....
Family will be very rich when this all ends....
I serached why didn’t it come up????
Did you search by title? It comes up with a search by title.
Anyway, some people might not have seen the earlier article, so now they will see it today.
I cannot believe how poor the writing of this piece is.
Worst part:
Officers can be heard being brusque with her, telling her to ‘help them help her’ as she starts wheezing and slurring her words while wearing a hospital
Poor editing, more likely. Who knows what was written before the editors got hold of it.
Stay away from cops and hospitals, folks. They are both more likely to kill you than help you.
The hospital’s prior actions and communications with the police aside, the security guards and every officer treated the woman like a drunk or someone on drugs (or just a disdain for what they perceived as a deadbeat faker).
Why? Because she wasn’t black, Hispanic or some other protected minority with whom they knew they’d face some outcry afterwards. Will there be BLM, ANTIFA, the ACLU or any other group besides some scumbag lawyers at the ready now? Likely not.
Personally, my guess is that the hospital found out that she had no money, no insurance and probably couldn’t run up enough charges on Medicaid to make it worth their time.
WTG, Knoxville.
The police were called to have her removed from the hospital, so even if they did deem her in need of treatment, the hospital would not have admitted her because they just rejected herhad already rejected her/thrown her out.
It’s ironic that this got published in the UK Daily Mail because these sort of problems happen all the time in the British National Health Service.
Then there is this nice bit of police work…
“Another officer then tells her that he will ‘stuff her in’ if she doesn’t help, with Lisa crying out as they try to move her.
They then tell her she will ‘get more charges’ and another says they are ‘tired of her deadweight crap”
She should’ve OD’d on fentanyl and tried to pass counterfeit bills…..then we could blame the police for contributing to her death.
The police merely manhandling a stroke patient and assisting in preventing her from obtaining basic medical assistance……why of course that had no contribution……
Hospital’s fault. The doctors are the medical experts, not the police.
They’re both going to receive letters from attorneys, I’m sure. Probably more liability on the hospital.
Funny thing, if she were an illegal alien or a “homeless” person, they’d have put her up in a room for as long as she wanted.
In any event, why did they have to arrest her? Couldn’t they just have called a relative to come get her? Was no one there to be her advocate? It ain’t your daddy’s “healthcare” anymore, that’s for sure. NEVER go to a hospital without someone to watch out for your well-being.
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