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Vet Allegedly Beaten To Death At VA Hospital
Opposing Views ^
| May 25, 2014
| Sarah Fruchtnicht
Posted on 05/27/2014 6:24:26 PM PDT by Altariel
A California woman says Veterans Administration hospital guards beat her husband to death after he waited four hours for dialysis.
Norma Montano says her husband of 44 years, Jonathan, died of a stroke on June 11, 2011, after he was beaten and had his carotid artery stomped by VA guards. Montano says the hospital also lied to her about what happened to her husband.
Montanos son and daughter are also plaintiffs in the suit.
Montano says he husband was tired of waiting, but when he tried to leave and go to another facility, he was told by the nursing staff not to leave.
"Jonathan Montano told the nurse that he was leaving and was going to the VA Hospital in Long Beach, California, [and that] he wanted to leave the needle apparatus [a shunt] in his arm, so they wouldn't have to put a new one in at the Long Beach VA Hospital, the complaint states.
When he insisted on leaving, the staff at the Loma Linda, Calif., facility called VA Police.
"The summoned VA Police Department police officers then stopped Jonathan Montano from leaving the VA Hospital in Loma Linda, by tackling him to the floor, slamming his head on the floor, and kneeing and stomping on his neck, and otherwise brutalizing and restraining him, the suit says.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: arrestrelateddeaths; california; democratcare; donutwatch; hospital; hospitalpolice; jonathanmontano; lomalinda; normamontano; va; vadeaths; vahospital; vascandal; vascandals; veteran; veterans; vets
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To: Teacher317
Ah, facts and corroboration are nice things to know, and trump verbose dramatizations where they are left out. I missed that from the thread account.
Thank you very much. It was too criminal for words.
Hang ‘em high in court, of course.
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posted on
05/27/2014 7:54:53 PM PDT
by
RitaOK
( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
To: Altariel
If that was my father the guards would be in a world of excrement, physically. Screw the lawsuit.
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posted on
05/27/2014 7:55:09 PM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: SgtHooper
They get better treatment in prison anyway. I worked in a prison for 25 years. I can assure you, that is a true statement.
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posted on
05/27/2014 8:00:29 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Vet 70-71 Msgt US Air Force, retired)
To: SgtHooper
44
posted on
05/27/2014 8:01:28 PM PDT
by
defconw
(Well now what?)
To: Altariel
45
posted on
05/27/2014 8:01:52 PM PDT
by
Dick Bachert
(Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
To: gasport
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posted on
05/27/2014 8:03:10 PM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
(Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
To: Altariel
Our nation is morally bankrupt.
47
posted on
05/27/2014 8:03:27 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: goodwithagun
Yep! But they won’t know I am carrying. In my state only courthouses and bars are no carry areas. The freaking VA is not a courthouse or bar.
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posted on
05/27/2014 8:03:44 PM PDT
by
defconw
(Well now what?)
To: Altariel; jiggyboy; PA Engineer; blam; TigerLikesRooster; Cheap_Hessian; CJinVA; Jet Jaguar; ...
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posted on
05/27/2014 8:04:41 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Resist in place.)
To: Altariel
An unintended consequences of government run healthcare is - after a time - the ‘guards’ opps, I mean ‘caregivers’ start seeing themselves as very special. They don't take guff from the beggars... oops I mean ‘patients’.
It's why the incentives are called perverse.
50
posted on
05/27/2014 8:27:40 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(>The Mainstream Ministry of Information does not stand for liberty. Freeper Gene Eric)
To: Altariel
Thank you. We might all be like that all the time if we can’t stop some of the stuff that is happening in this country.
51
posted on
05/27/2014 8:28:37 PM PDT
by
jocon307
To: Blood of Tyrants
To: null and void
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posted on
05/27/2014 9:02:16 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Altariel
This sounds a wee bit over the top.
I cannot imagine hospital guards caring one way or the other whether someone wants to wait or go.
This doesn’t pass the smell test.
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posted on
05/27/2014 9:29:55 PM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
To: Altariel; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; albertp; Alexander Rubin; Allosaurs_r_us; amchugh; ...
55
posted on
05/27/2014 9:42:03 PM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: Texas Fossil
I want to read the filing.
56
posted on
05/27/2014 10:16:22 PM PDT
by
gasport
(Will operate for food.)
To: Altariel
Sorry for such a late reply, but I appreciate the clarifications you brought to the thread.
57
posted on
05/27/2014 10:26:40 PM PDT
by
RitaOK
( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
To: Altariel
To: Altariel
let’s have the NAMES of the cops
that’s the only thing that’ll stop this kind of behavior from those in such positions
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posted on
05/27/2014 10:34:28 PM PDT
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: RitaOK
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posted on
05/27/2014 10:47:17 PM PDT
by
Altariel
("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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