…that isn’t how it would have worked. They couldn’t have “assessed her”.
Because what the video shows is a clear deterioration in her condition. At the start of the video her speech seems quite clear.
But about a minute into the video, her speech is obviously both audibly and visually slurred.
I’m seeing signs of all of those things. Things that weren’t happening at the start of the video.
Things had changed.
The hospital may have already assessed her. And at the time she may have been fine. But I don’t think that there would be a triage nurse on the planet who, after being informed by a police officer that a person who was speaking perfectly fine one minute but was now slurring their speech, struggling to breath, and couldn’t stand up, would respond with “We already assessed her, she’s fine.”
And the thing is we will never ever be able to confirm how the hospital would have reacted here. Because the police didn’t even bother to contact them.
The cops had new information that the medical professionals didn’t have. So what I’m saying is that the cops should have shared that information with the hospital. Because:
The police didn’t do any of these things. The signs were all there. They didn’t “think fast.” They didn’t notice the deterioration. Instead they berated her because they were missing their coffee and oatmeal.
My mum had a stroke many years ago before she passed. The doctors said that the only thing that saved her was the fact that she went immediately to the A & E (she worked in the hospital, so fortunately it was only a few minutes walk) , and they started treatment right away.
Early treatment makes all the difference. She was in their custody. She died on their watch.
Why would I think this obviously stupid thing?
I call bullshit on bullshit. And the idea that “one of the cops was a brain surgeon and was able to operate in the back of the cruiser” was the only way to save Lisa Edwards life is just fundamentally absurd. You are excusing the cops in this situation. Lisa Edwards wasn’t fated to die here. It was the actions of the cops, who had her in custody at the time, who ignored the deterioration in her condition, and even kept her in the back of the police car while they conducted another traffic stop, that are at fault.
They killed her.
While I appreciate your concern for my well being and all, I’ll never be able to get over what you said to me last year.
Accusing me of working alongside Fox and Pravda to dissillision voters, imagining that I’m so passionate about my internet ramblings on an obscure messageboard that you think that it’s likely I’m up to something else, was simultaneously the oddest and funniest things I’ve been accused of since I’ve been on the dope.
I think that effectively accusing me of being a Russian disinformation bot (in Politics & Elections, no less) is a pretty good way of pushing away those who would ordinarily align with you.
At least I’m open about my “incoherent rage.” You appear to be bottling it up, occasionally letting it slip in displays of passive aggressiveness.
Does this actually do you any good? At all?