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She was clearly no angel herself (had a warrant out for her arrest on a parole violation), but she was really critically ill and as far as we know had no history of abusing emergency room services or of having self-inflicted her immediate condition. She should not have been at the back of the line for treatment, but until we’re willing to crack down hard on emergency room and hospital abuse, things like this will keep happening, despite huge amounts of public money being poured into the hospitals.

This should have no barring on her situation because she was not an angel or warrants on her.

She was there for medical attention and this thing that the officer did was pure prejudice I hope her family sues the hell out the hospital and the officer!

You see this officer could have check on her after she was attended too, how hateful to block this emergency!

She was there for medical attention and this thing that the officer did was pure prejudice

You don't know that. This woman may well have had a history of abusing the ER, especially given that we know she had a criminal conviction for something (quite likely drugs, since she doesn't really look like a gangbanger), and a parole violation on top of that. Local ER staff and police are often very familiar with many of the people who make a habit of doing this, and taking such background in account when assessing the likelihood that this time it's real, is not "pure prejudice", it's using the available information about that specific individual and his/her past actions. Maybe you should go volunteer in that hospital's emergency room for a while. They could sure use the help, and I think it would open your eyes a lot.