Posted on 11/30/2018 9:31:55 PM PST by simpson96
Fior Pichardo de Veloz, a grandmother arrested in Miami, suffered a serious indignity at the hands of the Miami-Dade County Corrections Department: jailers booked her as a man and she spent nearly 10 hours in a holding cell surrounded by leering inmates.
Her shame was compounded when a federal judge threw out her lawsuit, saying the jail staffers were protected from a trial for negligence.
But clearly disturbed by the outrageous mistake, a federal appeals court this month reinstated the lawsuit against the jail doctor and nurse who insisted jail officers book Pichardo as a man — even though a strip search had already shown she was a woman.
“Every reasonable prison officer and medical personnel would have known that wrongfully misclassifying a biological female as a male inmate and placing that female in the male population of a detention facility was unlawful,” Judge Frank Hull wrote in the unanimous opinion released Nov. 21.
The decision means that she can now pursue a trial against Dr. Fredesvindo Rodriguez-Garcia and nurse Fatu Kamara Harris. An attorney for Miami-Dade County, which is representing the doctor, declined to comment. Harris’ lawyer did not return a request for comment.(snip)
Pichardo, now 55, is an attorney and local elected official in the Dominican Republic. Pichardo had come to Miami in 2013 to witness the birth of her grandchild when she was taken into custody on an old drug case she didn’t know was outstanding.
She was arrested at Miami International Airport on Nov. 4, 2013. From the start, the evidence was clear that she was a woman — the arresting officer listed her gender as female.
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Grated, not gratted.
I’d hit it.
Another shining example of incompetence that defines the Miami-Dade ruling class.
she looks mean! Guilty, lol.
Why is the headline that she’s a grandma? I thought I was gong to see some elderly woman in a photo, not a 55 year old. Ridiculous!
There are much nicer photos of her available.
Example:
Another example:
No way should the police have made that mistake.
I call myself a grandma, and people are surprised. You don’t have to be old, grey, and wrinkled to be a grandparent.
Sure, but why was it the lead in the headline? To garner sympathy.
Her being a grandma has nothing to do with this.
I read another story on NBC where a woman in a hospital was pissed because they classified her as a woman when she wants to be a male!
So a criminal drug history isn’t an impediment to being a lawyer in the Dominican Republic?
That’s Edward James Olmos in a wig
Nope. Can’t be.
No acne scars.
Thank you for your reply.
I think that the poster was using sacraism
Why is Florida so frequently in the news with crazy stories like this?
I wonder what the motive was to do this. She is from the Dominican Republic and the doctor, Rodriguez-Garcia, was probably from another Latin American country or his family is.
I’ve heard there are sometimes bad feelings between some LA countries. There had to be a reason for them to endanger the woman in this way.
It was the race for Governor that Gillum almost won.
It was not a mistake. It was a deliberate.In that part of Florida, the only difference between law enforcement and public officials, for that matter, and the criminal element is that the members of law enforcement and public officials have not been caught yet. If you do not want the same treatment that the lady receive, stay far, far away from South Florida.
It does seem deliberate, doesn’t it?
She looks like a woman (and the incident happened five years ago when she was a little bit younger). The arresting officer listed her as female. She was booked into the prison as female. She was strip searched.
Then, after one question about hormone pills, the doctor and nurse changed her status to male. Do they see so many of those cases that they now jump to conclusions? Or did they lie for some reason? Either way, they were responsible.
Good luck to her in her case.
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