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Woman dies while being forcibly removed from hospital
Whilst being escorted off hospital premises Dawson repeatedly pled for her oxygen tank. Nurses disagreed, and then “banned” Dawson from the hospital, her family said.
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Blountstown Police say she was treated and then discharged hours later by hospital staff, but Dawson felt she need further medical treatment. Mallory said the officer who arrested her is a white man and is on his regularly scheduled days off.
The police placed her under arrest for disorderly conduct and handcuffed the woman as they escorted her away from the hospital.
The patient walked out of the ED under her own power, escorted by our officer. Her aunt says Dawson’s oxygen was cut at the hospital. Something happened in course of them taking her to the vehicle that alerted them that they needed to go back inside. She collapsed as she entered a police vehicle, was readmitted to the hospital and died there several hours later. The death was because of a pulmonary saddle embolus, or a blood clot in the lungs related to Dawson’s obesity.
The Calhoun Liberty Hospital is responding after a woman in their care died.
“Our staff was very aggressive with her treatment”, Ruth Attaway, Calhoun Liberty Hospital’s administrator and CEO, told the Tallahassee Democrat. “They did everything they could”.
Donar told the newspaper that doctors could not find a pulse when Dawson was still outside the hospital.
“The most reasonable thing to do is to let her sit there and be able to settle down until she felt well. Instead, she is forcibly removed and put in cuffs”, Parks said.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is opening an investigation into the event.
Dawson was the second of nine children.
Parks’ law firm, the Tallahassee-based Parks and Crump, has represented black families in high-profile national cases, including the shooting deaths of black men Trayvon Martin in Florida and Michael Brown in Missouri. Dawson had a long history of breathing problems, visiting area hospitals 22 times since 1987. Attaway said the hospital will have a full review of the incident.
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Dawson’s death comes at a time of increased scrutiny of police conduct and the use of force by law enforcement, particularly against minorities. Dawson arrived at the hospital on Sunday at about 10:30 p.m. with complaints of intense stomach pains. Meanwhile, the Calhoun-Liberty County NAACP says they want justice for those responsible for the death. He says they won’t have final answers until autopsy results come in.