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pnwmom

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32. Here's the audio, and my attempt at a partial transcript.
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 10:12 PM
Feb 2016



While she’s in the hospital, you can HEAR her shortness of breath – her huffing and puffing, the way her voices fades off at the ends of her sentences. Even though she is on the oxygen tank at that time.

You can also hear the police officer talking to a woman and asking if she’s Barbara’s ride. Barbara is with at least one female relative – I think she has two females with her, both of whom try to speak up on Barbara’s behalf.

Below is what I could manage to type from the video. It’s incomplete but it gives the idea. There are several women’s voices. Two sound like family members, arguing on her behalf. One points out that Barbara is always supposed to be using the oxygen tank that they’ve just disconnected her from. The other women are either hospital staff or police officers.

The police report claims that Barbara’s vitals were checked several times. However, you can only hear this happening twice. Once after she collapses; and again at the very end, when a woman’s voice says her heart rate is 7.

And while you listen to this, think about the fact that she is experiencing great pain from the clot in her lungs and that she is experiencing extreme stress and anxiety from the shortness of breath.

Officer: ‘I’ve given you all the chances in the world.”

“I’m gonna die.”

“They’re going to kill me”

‘They’re not going to kill you. They begged you to leave and you wouldn’t do it.

‘Don’t take that off please’’ (her oxygen tube)

Female’s voice: “You haven’t been hooked up for a while and you’re breathing just fine.’

“Please, please, I can’t go no more. Please, help, they’re going to kill me”

‘please no, no please god help me, help me, I can’t breathe help me please help
help me no, please god help me I can’t . . . uh . . uh

Officer: ‘What’s wrong?, Please don’t fall down. Ms. Dawson, you were yelling, Ms. Dawson, falling down like this, laying down, won’t stop you from going to jail. ‘

A woman is objecting. (Probably Barbara’s relative.)

‘Ma’am ain’t nothing happened to her.”

Two women’s voices, both arguing on Barbara’s behalf:

“She is sick. “
“She is not okay.”
“She’s not okay.”
“She’s got a lot of health problems.”
“She does have a lot of health problems.”

Officer: “Mrs. Dawson, this is only making things worse on you. You need to comply with us. You need to get up. You need to get in the car, okay. . . . “

Officer-- Check her real quick?
Nurse -- Other hand. Come on now. There ain’t nothing wrong with you. She’s 98%. She’s fine. She’s just trying to get out of it.

Officer: “Ms. Dawson, we need you to get up, okay.
Nurse (female) “Ms. Dawson, get up, there’s nothing wrong with you. And I know you can hear us.”
[they try unsuccessfully to get her into the car, order a van because she’s “refusing’ to get in the vehicle.]

Woman; "That girl is sick!"

Nurse: 'for somebody that can’t breathe without the oxygen, you’re putting it off that much longer!"

Woman: “Supposed to have oxygen on all the time.”

Officer: “We’re trying to be as nice as we can. . . You can help us and help yourself, or you can do it the hard way.”

One of the woman laughs while trying to get her in the car.

Minutes pass while they stand around and wait to hear if a police van can come and help.

Nurse’s voice calls out sharply: “Bob! Bob! Bob! Bob! Bob!”

Nurse’s voice: “her heart rate is 7.’



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Yes, but in the police's defense, she was black. I think that's considered a defense valerief Feb 2016 #1
Yeah, right. pnwmom Feb 2016 #2
Exactly. It ought to be a crime. Wait! Isn't it? Hard to tell in these surreal times. nt valerief Feb 2016 #3
By the hospital, very probably, although this may be a case of Black-Without-Good-Insurance. Yo_Mama Feb 2016 #7
Yes. They should have called a doctor as soon as she passed out, not waited 18 minutes. pnwmom Feb 2016 #8
Well, it seems like they got a nurse there and let her make the decision. Yo_Mama Feb 2016 #12
She needed to stay there, not go to another facility, quite a distance away. pnwmom Feb 2016 #13
On this one, I don't blame the officers but the hospital. Yo_Mama Feb 2016 #4
Bottom line: when she left the hospital she was capable of walking. When she collapsed pnwmom Feb 2016 #14
But if the police had been told she was faking mythology Feb 2016 #20
Doesn't matter. They were told she was faking when she said she couldn't breathe. pnwmom Feb 2016 #21
actually in the police's defense hfojvt Feb 2016 #10
The report said that she was propped up against the car, and that after they pnwmom Feb 2016 #11
But how can hospital personnel not understand that "I can't breathe" is a TYPICAL pnwmom Feb 2016 #16
see but that goes back to the responsibility of the hospital hfojvt Feb 2016 #23
No, it doesn't excuse the cop. The cop had her in his custody, pnwmom Feb 2016 #24
I am not hearing anything hfojvt Feb 2016 #25
I listened to the audio and it isn't clear who the woman is who says, "I've never seen Barbara pnwmom Feb 2016 #26
now I remember hfojvt Feb 2016 #29
Here's the audio, and my attempt at a partial transcript. pnwmom Feb 2016 #32
Why couldn't you swallw? That's scary. nt tblue37 Feb 2016 #18
it was scarier the first time hfojvt Feb 2016 #22
I loved the very learned advice the cop gave her when she said she couldn't breathe justiceischeap Feb 2016 #5
Yes, and people having an asthma attack can talk until their airway closes completely. pnwmom Feb 2016 #9
Oh, Delphinus Feb 2016 #6
She deserves a lot of money. But the citizens will pay and no cop punished. Typical. nt Logical Feb 2016 #15
She won't get any money. wildeyed Feb 2016 #17
ttt Blue_Tires Feb 2016 #19
I had a pulmonary embolism. Turbineguy Feb 2016 #27
Can you imagine being treated like this woman while you were in the midst of that? pnwmom Feb 2016 #33
She would probably still be alive if she had an extra 500 a month for health insurance. Kalidurga Feb 2016 #28
You don't know that she didn't have insurance, but it isn't the fault of Obamacare pnwmom Feb 2016 #30
Well we come to a point of several agreements. Kalidurga Feb 2016 #31
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