Death for parking tickets sounds fair. /S
While there was certainly a problem with the officers not taking her condition seriously, she sure didn't improve her life by getting herself into that situation.
If you're so far strung out that you will die without serious medical intervention, in all likelihood you'd have been dead inside a year anyway.
I'm not a physician, so that may be somewhat off base, but it does seem that way to me.
Jail is no place for a sick person.
Why didn’t the family pay her fines or bail her out ?
They let her sit there for three days ?
A heroin addict dies. Not the cops fault for not keeping her supplied.
Oh wait... she was a junkie and died of withdrawal...
I withdraw my concern.
The problem is, this can happen if you are an alcoholic as well. And most of us know people or have family members who are functioning alcoholics. You CAN die from abrupt alcohol withdrawal. I know of two people who died in jail as a result of acute alcohol withdrawal and it’s just sad. Their lives were sad, their deaths were sad. I am unsure of this poor woman’s family situation. Had they had enough and decided to not to bail her out? No money for bail? Regardless, I believe she should have been treated at a hospital, then allowed to finish her jail time. Addiction is sad, just sad to me.
The PD is going to pay millions for this.
If you are in jail you are their responsibility - period. If you have ever watched what a heroin addict goes thru during withdrawal your skin would crawl.
And for all you morally superior Freeper’s on this thread who think she deserved what she got - would you just stand by and watch - let her die a slow and agonizing death? If so then F-you!
Sheriffs office edited the video surveillance of the cell camera, which documented all interaction between staff and prisoner. This edited video was submitted to incident investigators. With the filing of a federal lawsuit, the missing video came to light.
Head of jail facility Sgt. Holland who claimed she was feigning symptoms has taken early retirement. Deputy Gulcynski had taken upon himself medical evaluation of prisoner, and subsequent denial of medical service from a facility across the street. He was the last person in contact with prisoner prior to her death from a massive seizure.
The missing video reveals timeline of the discovery of an unresponsive prisoner. No medical response was initiated at that time. The cell was locked again until a forensics specialist arrived more than five hours later.
The Sherriff’s dept in my county has a diabetic die while in custody every few years. There have been over a half dozen dead in the last 20 years. All died because they were denied medical care after they were arrested. All of them would probably have been saved (at least at that time) if an ambulance had been called. Absolutely NO ONE has been charged with anything on any case. That kind of thing is just plain wrong.
Manslaughter.
What about people with medical problems related to obesity? There are quite a few such problems that require medical treatment and/or drugs to keep them alive. And they got themselves into it, you know.
Hey! I spent a night in that motel...my heart goes out to the girl, and her family. I think I know the sheriff, too. Too bad.