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It's a pretty long video, and part of it is the same scene just from a different bodycam. But I have to say, when the police first show up, they think they are dealing with a mentally ill woman, or a drug addict, whom the hospital has discharged for being uncooperative. I can understand that.

But there are several things in that video that made my opinion gradually turn on the police. The ankle business is the first. The second was that she was begging for her inhaler, and one officer looks through her suitcase, finds something that looks like it might be the refill portion of her inhaler, and just puts it back without a word. The third is that by the time they load her into the back of the patrol car, her breathing is so labored, you can hear it over the engine of the car. You can also hear when it finally just... stops. Not a pleasant video to sit through, overall.

That's my point, the police have a tolerance level just like everyone else, they are human. As a human, they have their good days, where they go the extra mile, and bad days, where they look for shortcuts.

We have all had them, and police have them as well.

If she were in that bad of shape, then the hospital is the one to take the blame here, for it was them who cleared her release, not the police. They are going by what the hospital has communicated to them.

But I still want to know if her family had been told about her or if they just called the police.

Since Covid, I have taken a rather different view on our medical complex, because they too are not in it for the best interest of the citizens. For them we are only a commodity, for which they have little regard for.