Posted on 02/24/2023 3:19:12 PM PST by libh8er
Horrific footage released by police shows a wheelchair-bound woman slurring and pleading with police as she is arrested for refusing to leave hospital, just moments before she died from a stroke in the back of a cop car.
Knoxville Police have released their body camera video of the harrowing incident which happened at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, in Tennessee, on February 6.
Lisa Edwards, 60, had been refusing to leave the hospital and was arrested on trespassing charges when she died in the back of the police cruiser – minutes after telling cops 'you're going to kill me'.
The footage shows Lisa being taken into custody, gasping and wheezing before she tells officers that she 'can't breathe'. Her skin becomes grayer, and her voice more slurred as the footage continues. The latter is a well-known symptom of a stroke.
Authorities released the hour and 16-minute video with a warning that some of the video may be distressing.
The footage shows Lisa being taken into custody, gasping and wheezing before she tells officers that she 'can't breathe'. Her skin becomes grayer, and her voice more slurred as the footage continues. The latter is a well-known symptom of a stroke.
Authorities released the hour and 16-minute video with a warning that some of the video may be distressing.
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Time for a major lawsuit of Hospital and Police of Knoxville. What a bunch of stupid Cops.
I agree, I don’t back the blue because they won’t police their own.
well, according to this link:
she didn’t die in the car.
Quote by a cop: “You are about to get more charges”.
All as she was gasping for breath and dying. It’s obvious to me the hospital discharged her to make room for a patient with private insurance. They just didn’t want to waste their resources on her anymore.
This is what a lack of respect for life, a lowering of standards for hiring, and Obamacare has brought to this nation. Meanwhile, illegal aliens get the highest quality of health care that we taxpayers can buy.
Every single one of the cops involved need to be fired, jailed, and their pensions and health care benefits canceled. The hospital needs to pay this woman’s family a very large amount of money. And, whoever made the decision to discharge her needs to be jailed as well.
Want to bet her paperwork was pencil whipped?
The police did not kill her but the hospital was, perhaps, incompetent.
Hospitals were a crap shoot before the mysterious virus of unknown origin and they are worse now.
So are American cops now doing the murdering that illegals won’t do anymore? That’s all so confusing.
Manslaughter for all involved. No words for this. Hope they all have nightmares every night for the rest of their lives
That was heartbreaking to watch. The hospital should be sued.
And the police made the mistake of assuming the medical staff knew best.
Shes white, no story here.
Edwards was taken into KPD custody for refusing to leave Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. She had come to Fort Sanders the day before, complaining of abdominal pain and being diagnosed with constipation at Blount Memorial Hospital. After spending the night at Fort Sanders, she was discharged around 7 a.m. on Feb. 5.
After she refused to leave, hospital security called KPD to have her evicted from the property. The responding officer, Wardlaw, decided to take her into custody after speaking with her. Wardlaw, along with several other officers, then tried to put her into a KPD wagon, but decided it was too high off the ground for Edwards, who was in a wheelchair, to get into.
From there, the officers called in Distasio’s patrol car, which they loaded Edwards into. On the way to a detention center, Distasio responded to a reckless driver. While he was stopped, he noticed that Edwards had become unresponsive and an ambulance took her back to Fort Sanders. From there, Edwards was placed on life support before she died.
An investigation by the DA’s office found that Edwards died of a stroke, clearing the officers of any criminal charges.
I seem to recall reading that over 100,000 deaths a year are caused by hospital or physicians’ mistakes. If so that would be among the top seven causes of death in the US.
That’s the truth.
Yep
In most situations medicare covers the hospital 100% for uninsured emergency visits, i believe that theirs even a special set aside fund to cover this. The hospital staff who didn’t properly assess this patient, because she became a patient when she walked into the emergency room door, are at fault. And when they called the cops to throw her out, they defacto assumed 100% liability, because they showed the medical incompetence of the staff, this was malpractice and malfeasance,and some attorney is going to get 40% of a pile o’cash.
What is wrong with Tennessee cops? I can only hope these officers and their families die a long painful and horrible death
called paramedics...
Boy, that video is something. Just the sound of her breathing in the back of the patrol car getting more and more labored and horrible until it finally just fades away... and the cop just keeps yelling at her dead body, “Sit up! Sit up!!”
She did. They're trying to cover it up, but I watched the video and you can hear her die at the 1:08:30ish mark.
Here is the money line - “Security at the hospital issued her a trespass warning, before officers decided to arrest her for criminal trespassing.”
Security - Cops should have checked with the attending physician and gotten their medical opinion, on camera, that the hospital did not think she required medical attention. I don’t think that would have made a difference other than placing the negligence squarely on the attending and the hospital.
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