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Related: About this forumTYT: Homeless Woman Dies In Police Custody (Anna Brown)
Via The LA Times: "Anna Brown was homeless and had so much pain in her legs that she couldn't walk. When Brown, 29, refused to leave the emergency room at St. Mary's Health Center in Richmond Heights, Mo., a suburb near inner St. Louis, the police thought she was on drugs and arrested her for trespassing. She'd already been examined, and a doctor said she was healthy enough to go to jail. The police carried her into a jail cell by her arms and ankles, her body slackened. There were a couple of beds in the cell, but they left her on the concrete floor. A couple of officers stood by the door as she writhed and moaned, and then they walked away. "They thought she was a drug seeker," an officer said later. She had stopped moving within 15 minutes and was pronounced dead a short time later...".* Ana Kasparian, Jayar Jackson and former prosecutor Steve Oh break it down on The Young Turks.
*Read More Here: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-st.-louis-homeless-woman-death20120327,0,171094.story
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TYT: Homeless Woman Dies In Police Custody (Anna Brown) (Original Post)
ihavenobias
Mar 2012
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SamG
(535 posts)1. I am watching this now. It's a condemnation of
the medical system as well as law enforcement.
TYT does a very good way of explaining what institutional racism and how it affects our health care and our law enforcement systems.
Great tie-in with the Trayvon Martin George Zimmerman case.
Too bad so few people follow TYT, or bother to look at these issues the way TYT does.
20score
(4,769 posts)2. One story after another. Damn!
We need better cops all across the country. Or a police force strictly dedicated to arresting criminal cops and prosecutors. They'd be kept very busy.
OhioChick
(23,218 posts)3. Rec n/t
daleanime
(17,796 posts)4. ......
izquierdista
(11,689 posts)5. If you don't think you're poor....
That can change. There are ALWAYS circumstances that can make you poor.