Video: Hospital security guards wheeled patient off property blamed for his death

[icymist]

MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) — Mobile Infirmary surveillance video shows security guards, one an off duty Mobile Police officer, wheeling a patient off hospital property on a cold night. The patient later died, and the hospital is being blamed for the death of the 24-year-old. Local 15’s Andrea Ramey was in court when the video was played openly for the first time in three years.

In the video you see two security guards, Shawn Poff and off-duty Mobile Police Sgt. Jerry Ripple, pick up LeJuan Johnson, who is on the ground by the doors to the ER. He isn’t moving much. Poff and Ripple then pick him up and place him in a wheelchair. Another camera angle shows the guards wheeling him off the property and leaving him on the ground.

Johnson arrived at Mobile Infirmary on March 5, 2013 by ambulance wearing only a thin blue t-shirt, pajama pants, and no shoes. The temperature that night, attorney Vincent Kilborn says, dipped into the low 40’s, and he began to suffer from hypothermia. Johnson died March 18th

http://komonews.com/news/nation-world/video-hospital-security-guards-wheeled-patient-off-property-blamed-for-his-death

WTF is wrong with humanity? Video at the link.

[MadLinguist]

1. Hmmm, normally security guards don't call the shots at a hospital

I'd be interested to hear from whoever those guards report to. My guess is there is more to be found under the rug at that hospital -- question is, where are the sweeping orders coming from