Officers Charged Her With Drunken Driving. But Her Brain Was Bleeding.

[Demovictory9]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/us/washington-woman-dui-arrest-brain-bleed.html

Officers Charged Her With Drunken Driving. But Her Brain Was Bleeding.
Nicole McClure said she spent hours in a jail cell, enduring taunts, until a delayed medical check revealed that she had a life-threatening problem with her brain.

Feb. 18, 2024
Driving home from work on the day her life changed forever, Nicole McClure could feel her feet tingling and her sense of direction faltering. Then she noticed colorful lights illuminating the early morning landscape.

“Oh, pretty lights,” she remembers thinking, not realizing that a highway patrol car was coming up behind her. On what was supposed to be a simple drive home from her overnight job at Walmart near Olympia, Wash., Ms. McClure felt increasingly disoriented, and wound up crashing into two roundabouts before pulling over.

The state trooper who had followed her ran to her door with his gun drawn, shouting at her to get out of the car, according to his dash cam video. He demanded to know if she had been drinking or using drugs. She denied it. “I’m not feeling real well,” she said. The trooper was not convinced. She was taken to jail, accused of driving under the influence.

The arrest was the beginning of a more than 24-hour ordeal in the criminal justice system at a time when Ms. McClure was in desperate need of medical care. Her lawyers said she was left lying in her own urine on the floor of a cell as jail employees, apparently dismissing her as being drunk, taunted her. When someone finally realized she needed medical attention, records show, doctors discovered a brain bleed and rushed her into surgery. She spent 17 days in the hospital and emerged no longer able to work or to care for herself.

[ret5hd]

1. Yay cops!

[jimfields33]

7. Tough job. Problem is they hear "I feel sick" too many times only to find out it was untrue.

The only way to fix this is to have EMT’s drive in every cop car.

[Crunchy Frog]

15. Why aren't they testing blood alcohol levels?

That used to be standard practice. If they had done that, it would have revealed that there was something else going on.

In any event, it would make sense for cops to have some kind of basic emergency medical training.

[bottomofthehill]

21. They brought her to the hospital. Medical professionals released her back to them.

Let’s shit on healthcare workers while we are at it.

[bottomofthehill]

22. Why is it that some of the dumbest people work in hospitals

[bottomofthehill]

25. Fuck the Docs

[limbicnuminousity]

26. There's MAGA in hospitals too

Remember the nurses throwing a fit over being vaccinated?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

33. There's a reason a lot of nurses marry cops.

I’ve seen it way too often where the cops bring in a patient and the nurses act like they are part of the system and act like prison guards.


Not all of them. Remember that nurse in Salt Lake who got arrested for not siding with the cop. We need more of them.

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[Sky Jewels]

28. Like anti-vaxx nurses

[tulipsandroses]

39. He did not take her to the hospital for care. He took her there for a blood draw

The blood draw was negative. It’s baffling that this woman was kept in custody.


Barnes arrested McClure on suspicion of intoxicated driving and felony evading. The lawsuit alleges the trooper also didn’t call medics to the scene, despite the vehicle crash, and took her to a hospital for a blood draw, the filings allege.

Barnes didn’t tell hospital staff that McClure had been in a crash, the lawsuit says. The filings also claim that in his written report, the trooper crossed out a section detailing a series of health and medical questions, printing “Did not ask” across the strikeout.

After the blood draw — which the lawsuit says later showed McClure had no drugs or alcohol in her system — Barnes took her to the Thurston County Jail.

https://www.live5news.com/2024/02/11/woman-with-brain-bleed-mistakenly-arrested-by-state-trooper-drunken-driving-lawsuit-says/?outputType=amp

[ret5hd]

17. Tough in what way?

training?
physical fitness?
education?

oh…you mean “tough” like a bouncers job is tough.

[jimfields33]

24. Two just died yesterday.

[ret5hd]

37. how many roofers died yesterday?

[jimfields33]

38. Hopefully none.

[Attilatheblond]

2. I remember a time when diabetics in insulin shock were sometimes tossed into the 'drunk tank'

Too many died. Cops without some basic knowledge of medical emergencies are a danger to us all.

[Hekate]

10. THIS. You don't need to be an EMT, you just need to know First Aid & have some common sense

Maybe even a human heart

[magicarpet]

30. Yes,... a splash of human compassion,...

.... is in order here. But alpha male cops don't do pinko human dignity or compassion.

[Randomthought]

23. Happen to a neighbor years ago

His roommate knocked on my door asking if I could donate to bail him out. I jumped in my car with the roommate, bailed him out and took him to ER myself.
Still took days to get his car out of impound .

[cilla4progress]

3. Will be an excellent

lawsuit for her...

Terrible story. I hope she recovers some capacity.

[bamagal62]

4. I hope she slaps a huge

Lawsuit on them.

[Hekate]

11. She is no longer able to even care for herself, so how is she able to sue?

[Disaffected]

16. Huh??

Maybe someone will get her a lawyer.

[Hekate]

35. Best of luck to her and her loved ones. What happened to her was horrible.

[Disaffected]

36. It was.

I thought doing a blood alcohol content test was SOP when someone is brought in for DWI(?). If so, they would then have a clue that maybe there is a serious medical problem.

OTOH, maybe they did the test, it came back negative and they didn't bother following up...

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. Protecting and serving. FTP.

[maxsolomon]

6. I know someone with Auto-Brewery Syndrome

charged with DUI.

his guts ferment carbs!

[Johnny2X2X]

8. Just maddening

The people who are supposed to help don’t and make it worse.

[Emile]

9. Why is it some of the dumbest people

have badges?

[Sky Jewels]

29. Not just dumb ... cruel and violent and racist and misogynistic.

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A huge percentage of cops try to overcompensate for and cover up their own deep insecurities by being bullying assholes steeped in toxic masculinity.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

34. Now now, don't be too hard the Wally World security guard

(Actually, I shouldn’t besmirch John Candy like that)

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[limbicnuminousity]

12. ACAB

[Arazi]

13. ACAB. Only sociopaths get into law enforcement so they can destroy people

Fuck the police 😡

[bottomofthehill]

14. Quick little reminder here.

It was law enforcement who saved the day on 1/6. Local cops, federal cops, state police. That is who came to stop the attack on democracy. There are a few bad apples, and they get headlines when they fuck up, but when we needed them to save Democracy, they came.

[Disaffected]

18. Thank you.

It's absurd to make derogatory blanket statements about LE, or any other group for that matter, based on a individual instances.

[limbicnuminousity]

27. What individual instance?

Stack up enough individual instances and you have a pattern of behavior. The pattern of behavior in LE is pretty abysmal. When are the hypothetical 'good' apples going to turn in the bad apples?

[Disaffected]

31. That's a hell of a far cry from

ACAB.

[limbicnuminousity]

32. Not in my mind.

They remain culpable simply by not reporting on their fellows.

[ret5hd]

19. where are the good apples that are throwing...

the bad apples out of the barrel?

does the fact that so few turn in the bad apples make the rest of them bad?

[dalton99a]

20. Betcha none of them lost an ounce of sleep over it

https://archive.ph/H5EKK

[Ms. Toad]

40. I remember the speculation when Stephanie Tubbs Jones had a brain hemorrhage while driving.

The police initially noticed she was driving erratically. I don't recall whether it was just popular speculation that she was driving while drunk, or whether the police acted on it.

[bottomofthehill]

42. I think they airlifted to the Cleveland Clinic but

The Stroke had already done its damage.

[pansypoo53219]

41. ops are not that smart.