Pittsburgh woman loses arm after alleged police brutality and jail neglect

[think]

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Source: RawStory.com

Pittsburgh woman loses arm after alleged police brutality and jail neglect

By David Ferguson
Tuesday, December 31, 2013 9:52 EST

A Pennsylvania woman lost an arm due to injuries she claims were inflicted on her by sheriff’s deputies and ignored by jail staff. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Amy J. Needham, 35, filed suit in Allegheny County Court on Monday after events in April of this year left her arm amputated above the elbow.

Needham was arrested on a warrant in April because she failed to appear at a preliminary hearing on charges of simple assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. Her attorney told the Post-Gazette that the woman was using the bathroom when sheriff’s department officers broke down the door, shocked her with a taser and bound her in wrist and arm restraints that were too tight.

The rough treatment and confinement caused Needham’s left arm to develop compartment syndrome, a medical condition in which muscle tissue is injured and swells, cutting off circulation to a compartment of the muscle.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/31/pittsburgh-woman-loses-arm-after-alleged-police-brutality-and-jail-neglect/

[jsr]

1. "The mother of three asked to see a doctor 16 times"

[Heywood J]

2. $75,000?

I think she dropped a zero or two.

[jsr]

3. Yep.

[think]

4. Bigtime.

Her life will never be the same and her ability to work severely limited.

[AtheistCrusader]

6. I'm hoping that's a copy editor typo.

Over the span of your lifetime, that isn't shit, for compensating the loss of a limb, let alone medical costs/prosthetics, etc.

[LittleGirl]

5. 75k? are you kidding me?

That's absurd! My sister lost her right arm in a boating accident and her life insurance paid more than that for the loss of limb! WTF? They caused life long damage to her body for mistreatment from cops? Fuck that. That's disgusting. This shit has to stop and I hope she gets a jury to give her some more money. A prosthetic arm costs more than 75k.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Locking - LBN hosts' consensus is that this is a local story

which happened some time ago - only the lawsuit is new. Please feel free to repost in the Pennsylvania group, or the GD forum. Thanks.