Women dies after being dragged from Hospital...

[MADem]

105. I think the doctor convinced them that she was a malingerer and a "drug seeker."

They don't require police to be geniuses. Perhaps they should raise the intelligence standards before hiring them. They want authoritarian personalities who are concrete thinkers and who follow "regulations, rules, and procedures" readily. Not too sharp, not too dumb--people who don't think too much. Those guys who transported her have probably picked up dozens if not hundreds of people at the ER who, for whatever reasons, refused to leave and they probably had a very similar experience with those transports. They may have thought she was acting and trying to be dramatic.

If they required police to have medical degrees, maybe they'd shoot fewer people. I don't know. I do know, though, that police don't like paperwork or people dying in custody, so I do think that if they believed there was something direly wrong with the woman, they would have done something about it--not because of any merciful attitude, necessarily, but as a consequence of a desire to avoid bad publicity such as this is generating.