No, it's not the job of cops to kill patients that the hospital should be treating.
Welcome to obamacare, the militarized version.
Putting her in handcuffs did not kill her.
The point is..what the **** are cops putting patients, who are demanding treatment at a hospital, in cuffs in the first place? That's straight up insane, and if you don't get it, you're the problem.
Cops are NOT hired goons for the state. Well, they aren't supposed to be. She was being turned out because she couldn't get approved for treatment...and the pigs have absolutely no business strong arming anybody for such a piddly ass reason. They exist to increase our SAFETY..not to harass, intimidate, and collect for corporations or the feds.
Koshergirl, You are not very familiar with what cops have to put up with every shift of every day, are you? I wasn't there, but I am pretty sure they didn't walk into ER with cuffs in hand. The lady objected, probably with unkind nasty words, and since she didn't want to leave, and they were tasked with removing her...the cuffs came out. Most cops don't want the hassle of a 'scene', so I suspect the cuffs were a last resort. And I can guarantee they didn't know she was close to sudden death. We don't have cops for that, we have docs... who are supposed to figure those things out, especially in an ER that deals with trauma as business as usual. And if it wasn't an ER, they are still the experts, not the guys they call to haul away their 'problems'.
I know as well as many, and more than most. I'm sick to ******* death of cops ignoring the law themselves, blatantly LYING (over and over and over again)...harassing non-violent citizens and being put to use by the corrupt government to collect revenue and oppress and intimidate the citizenry. They have created a culture where they believe they only answer to EACH OTHER, and they have forgotten that they don't exist to act as ******* thugs for politicians and big money. They exist to PROTECT us from the very actions that they engage in against us.
It's a shame that everybody hates them. If they did their ******* JOBS instead of simply engaging in criminal actions under the shield of their badges, then people would probably care a little more that they're running into more and more people who view them as the enemy. Because right now, they are the enemy. They'd better internalize that and make an effort to come to heel, or it's going to get a LOT hotter for them.