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02-26-2023, 02:46 PM
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In-custody Death: Lisa Edwards (60)
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. Lisa starts telling an officer that she can't get back up to the hospital, with officers struggling to get her into the back of the van before she says she needs to sit down. Officers can be heard being brusque with her, telling her to 'help them help her' as she starts wheezing and slurring her words while wearing a hospital One cop can be heard telling her that she's 'been medically cleared' before another says 'you weren't having any breathing problems when you were out here smoking a cigarette.' Lisa is then told to 'stop' when she says 'I'm going to pass out', with the officer telling her 'you're going to get in there one way or another.' The horrific footage continues for another hour, showing officers trying to force her into the back of the van as they tell her she doesn't have an inhaler. Another officer then tells her that he will 'stuff her in' if she doesn't help, with Lisa crying out as they try to move her. They then tell her she will 'get more charges' and another says they are 'tired of her deadweight crap'. Lisa is then told she is being 'ridiculous', before protesting and saying 'help lift me up, oh please' as cops threaten to slam the door on her foot. She can then be heard saying 'you're going to kill me' in her final moments, begging for help before the footage cuts off. Police confirmed that Officer Timothy Distasio started to transport Lisa to Roger Wilson Detention Facility before pulling over a car that was driving recklessly. He then discovered that Lisa was unresponsive in the backseat of the cruiser, with more footage being released of her in the back of the car. Throughout the horrifying footage Lisa can be heard struggling to breathe, and making noises in the back of the cruiser before Distasio radios other offers to say he 'doesn't know if she is faking it' after she suffered the stroke. He can then be seen off camera shaking Lisa and shouting 'wake up' several times before calling for more help after she fell silent. In the final moments of the clip, an ambulance can be seen pulling up behind Lisa's car to try and revive her. Lisa's family have said that they 'can't believe the way she was treated', adding 'she did not deserve to be treated like that, nobody does.' They say that she was left physically disabled in August 2019 after suffering from her first stroke, but she was still mentally sound. Her daughter-in-law August Boylan, a nurse, told WATE: 'It's totally irrelevant of how she got to where she was that morning, but that whole situation that played out for an extended period of time is horrible, absolutely horrible. 'The police officers may not have done anything intentionally criminal to cause anything to happen to her, but they definitely were negligent and had no respect for human life, any basic needs, anything. ‘You don't have to be a medical professional to know what the signs of stroke are. And you can see that in her, you know, start to finish. 'That is not somebody working themselves up like they said in there. That is not somebody faking it. 'She, I mean, she said it herself, that she was dying, that she was having a stroke.' On Tuesday, the Knox County District Attorney's Office announced that no charges were being filed against the officers involved. According to the DA's office, Lisa died of natural causes and law enforcement interaction did not cause or contribute to her death. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said she had flown t to Knoxville from a nursing home in Rhode Island on February 4. During the flight, she reported abdominal pain and was taken to Blount Memorial Hospital upon arrival, with the TBI confirming that she was discharged with constipation. She sought additional treatment on February 4, where she was observed overnight and discharged but refused to leave the hospital meaning police were called. Security at the hospital issued her a trespass warning, before officers decided to arrest her for criminal trespassing. Knoxville Police say there is an internal investigation to determine if any department policies or procedures were violated, with the officers involved currently on paid leave. In a statement they said: 'The KPD extends its deepest and most heartfelt condolences to the family of Lisa Edwards.' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-hospital.html |
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03-02-2023, 01:43 PM
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Re: In-custody Death: Lisa Edwards (60)
I don't care if she was fine and smoking a cigarette when the officers got there. She sounded fine to me in the first officer footage as well. However, a stroke can happen at any moment. Granted I have been trained as an EMT, but you do not have to have any medical training to know that she was not ok. She should have been taken back into the hospital immediately! If anything, officers should have covered their own asses and done this. Even in EMT classes you are trained to cya (cover your ass). This is a horrific video, and it was hard to watch! My condolences go out to her family.
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03-02-2023, 05:08 PM
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Re: In-custody Death: Lisa Edwards (60)
Why didn't he check her pulse and do CPR on her the daft twat! He could have saved her had he just got a fucking ambulance quicker an worked on her! The police should be fucking ashamed of themselves!!!  |
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03-07-2023, 05:53 PM
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Re: In-custody Death: Lisa Edwards (60)
So the hospital says she was fine and trespasses her but the cops were supposed to know otherwise? Looks to me like this woman was a major drain on valuable time and resources all the way to the end.
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