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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The police did spend an hour & 16 minutes trying to get her to come along willingly. Cops are not trained medical personnel. Sadly, people seeking medical attention is the 3rd leading cause of deaths, at the hands of medical professionals. In some ways I almost feel that people are being unrealistic about how the police should react in situations like this.
Tragic outcome for sure, but I feel there is more to this story, yet the blame is being laid at the feet of the police. I blame the hospital for not calling her family members to come pick her up. If they did call the family first, then the blame shifts to the family for no doing so.
Cops didn’t care. Elderly white woman = no consequences.
I’ll agree with hospitals will kill you. Cops aren’t the problem by any means.
All of them. Poor woman
Trying to get help and beinf refused by everyone who’s supposed to help
A few years ago. My friends father had a bad experience with the police in Florida. He was a airline pilot and a commander in the naval reserve.
One day he looses his medical. Diagnosed a diabetic.
He was in Florida on vacation. Wakes up one morning not feeling well.
Decided to drive himself to a hospital down the street from his hotel.
He didn’t make it out of the parking lot where he passed out.
The police came and arrested him for dui.
He was wearing a bracelet that identified him as diabetic.
He spent all day in a cell until a trustee could not wake him for supper.
They removed his bracelet at booking and never considered he might be sick. He said he would have died in the cell if not for the trustee.
When he finished his story, he pointed out the window and asked,”what do you think of my new 7 series BMW?”
“I serached why didn’t it come up????”
Not your fault. I’ve found the search feature to be only about 50% effective.
The hospital and the police got their wish — one less undesirable person. Sick.
I don't know if it would have helped her or not, I don't know if having an asthma attack could lead to the stroke, or if it wouldn't make any difference, but I don't understand why he didn't offer it to her. She was asking for it.
Then, once she was in the back of the patrol car, her breathing was so horrific that there's no way anyone with a brain could think she was faking it. And you can hear her breathing get worse and worse... then fainter and fainter... and it's clear by the 1:08:30 mark that she's not breathing anymore. And he's just driving along, yelling, "Sit up!" at her. It's really appalling.
To an extent, I agree, but I watched the whole video and she kept crying out that her ankle was injured and she couldn't stand. They didn't even ask "which ankle." They just didn't want to hear it. She's old, she's fat, she's stinky, get this garbage out of here. That was the attitude.
I have to say, I don't know for sure if I'd been more aware than they when it comes to taking the hospital's word for her condition, but if I was trying to help her into the van and she was saying over and over, "My ankle, my ankle, I can't, I can't..." I think I'd have at least had the presence of mind to ask, "Which ankle" so we could try to work around it.
I see. Cops just using the ol' "just following orders" defense.
That very well may be, but sometimes you have to actually think about what you're doing ... maybe even show a smidgen of compassion. I know that's a bit much to ask of authorities these days.
Medical malpractice isn't an excuse. It's a feature!
Yikes!
“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.”
Yep. Never call the police on a family member. They don’t show up with medical kits and psychology manuals, they show up with guns, tasers, and billy clubs. This was a friend of mine having a medical issue:
https://www.al.com/live/2012/05/police_suspect_gregory_rachel.html
No drugs. I think he was having a blood sugar problem. The wife got a settlement, but she never told me how much.
“Stay away from cops and hospitals, folks. They are both more likely to kill you than help you.”
Sad, but TRUE!
60 is “elderly”?
“I can’t breathe”, then DIES in police custody?
Sound familiar?
Last time the cops were convicted of MURDER. (unjustly)
Ive been away from FR since late November. I nearly died in a similar story. Symptoms had stopped when we arrived at the ER and after a little while they wanted to send me away because nothing was happening (no, they werent full or busy). It must have just been something minor he said, maybe it will come back later and I should return...
The physician reconsidered because I was insistent that there was something wrong and he decided to send me for a CAT first. The symptoms came back even worse than what sent me in to the ER when they added the dye. I started yelling and had them pull me out and take me back.
Physician began commenting around the time that my beats per minute reached 270 that people werent suppose to be conscious at that point. Somewhere after 280, then 290, he said that people werent suppose to stay alive with that type of arrhythmia either, then he mentioned 300 but didnt say where it topped out. He was too busy then.
After a heart attack, multiple bypasses, and a stroke later
Im at home recovering now. It seems I got lucky(?) in that it was a rather large clot and that a friend from work was visiting and recognized it from our training because they wouldnt have at the hospital until it was too late. It got lodged at the end of the M1 where it bifurcates so the damage was more spread out but to a lesser degree to any one area than if it had gotten further and stuck somewhere that would have been more difficult to get out. It seems that it was in the heart when everything got started to begin with not as subsequent to the rest of the procedures but I wont bore you with those details.
Seems kinda serious for someone that the physician seemed to think was just being a hypochondriac but I dont have a medical degree so Im probably just over reacting...
Is 60 elderly?
You have something to do
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