Barbara Dawson, 57, of Tallahassee, Florida collapsed while being escorted in handcuffs from a hospital where she sought treatment for breathing troubles, according to Mashable. The family plans to file a lawsuit against Calhoun Liberty Hospital for her death.
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Officers placed her under arrest on charges of disorderly conduct and trespassing, handcuffed her and escorted her out of the hospital. The Florida native had a history of breathing problems and was almost admitted 22 times since 1987 for her health battles in Tallahassee hospitals, the report says.
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When she was returned to the hospital, Dawson was still breathing, Mallory said. The officer then uncuffed her and summoned medical attention…Hospital staff checked her pulse, oxygen and vital signs three times and told the officer she was fine.
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According to interviews conducted with medical staff and the available audio from the officer’s in auto camera, Ms. Dawson had a pulse and was alive when transferred back to the care of the doctor and hospital.
Adding: ‘Our staff was very aggressive with her treatment’. “They just get mad at her”, her aunt, Angela Donar told the Democrat.
A 57-year-old black woman died after she was arrested for refusing to leave a Florida hospital – and the outraged community is demanding answers. “If she don’t think it’s right, she’s going to tell them and they don’t like that”.
Relatives told the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper that she felt she needed more medical care.
Officers say she was escorted outside, handcuffed, and collapsed at the back door of the police cruiser as the officer was trying to put her into the auto.
Less than two hours later, at 6.24am, she was pronounced dead.
“Even the early facts should cause grave concern for her family”, Darryl Parks, of the law firm Parks and Crump, told the paper, “but also grave concern for the public”.
Courtesy of the Dawson family. So she never should have left the hospital anyway.
“If they bring her some medicine, she wants to know what it is, what it is for”. The family has retained a lawyer, and the local NAACP chapter held a meeting Tuesday to discuss the matter. That video, along with a police report, will be released before Christmas, according to the Democrat.
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Justice is those that were responsible for her death, especially negligent homicide, they need to be held accountable in a court of law. The medical staff maintains they did everything they could to save her.
