A 57-year-old woman died Monday after she was arrested and forcibly removed by police from a Florida hospital, where her family says she was denied care, according to a Tallahassee Democrat report. Mallory said an officer had arrested Dawson for disorderly conduct and trespassing.
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Mallory added that the officer was being polite to Dawson on his arrival, but Donar says the blame should be placed on everyone involved for ignoring her aunts pleas for help.
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Investigators from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement have been called in to investigate Dawson’s death. Meanwhile, Tallahassee attorney Daryl Parks, who is representing Dawson’s family, said they plan to file a lawsuit against the hospital, the Blountstown Police Department, or both. Dawson disagreed and insisted she needed more help and her oxygen tank, which they were attempting to take away.
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Less than two hours later, at 6.24am, she was pronounced dead. But Dawson refused to leave, “causing a disturbance in the hospital with her language and the volume of her voice”, he said, so police were called.
“When he got her to the vehicle, he opened the door and tried to put her in the auto and after then she collapsed”, Donar explained. At one point, hospital staff ordered Dawson off the property when she brought a friend in for treatment, Donar told the Tallahassee Democrat. “The early facts of this case should cause a great concern for everyone”. “They bought a stretcher out there and took her back in the hospital”.
Video footage from the Blountstown police officer’s dashcam did not reportedly capture images from Dawson’s arrest and collapse, but did record audio from the incident. When Ms. Dawson refused to leave, hospital staff called the police at roughly 4:45 a.m. Monday. “Our staff was very aggressive with her treatment”.
After hospital staff checked her pulse, oxygen and vital signs three times and told the officer she was fine, a doctor readmitted Dawson to the hospital. She was immediately taken back inside the Liberty Calhoun Hospital after the health incident. It is not clear what she died from or how her condition deteriorated so quickly.
“If her death was wrongfully determined, then somehow, someway, there needs to be some sort of recompense to the family”, Dale Landry of the Florida NAACP said in a statement.
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The local branch of the Florida NAACP held an emergency meeting on Tuesday afternoon in response to Dawson’s death.
