This just SO pisses me off!

I just waatched Headline News cover the story of the emergency room death of Edith Isabel Rodriguez. There was absolutely no mention that when she died she in the process of being arrested - WHILE VOMITTING BLOOD- by the county police. It was like it never happened!

"Within minutes, police began taking Rodriguez into custody. When they told Prado that there was a warrant for Rodriguez's arrest, he asked if she would get medical care wherever she was taken. They assured him that she would. He then kissed her and left, the police report said.

She was wheeled to the patrol vehicle and the door was opened so that she could get into the back. When officers asked her to get up, she did not respond. An officer tried to revive her with an ammonia inhalant, then checked for a pulse and found none. She died in the emergency room after resuscitation efforts failed.

....Peavy, who supervises the sheriff's homicide unit, said that although his investigation is not complete, "the county police did absolutely, absolutely nothing wrong as far as we're concerned."
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-king20may20,0,1577522,full.story

It's not the cops' job to make a medical diagnosis when someone's already at a hospital...

The folks at 911 did nothing wrong. The woman was already in an emergency department.

Still, the OP's point about the coverage is valid.

But one does not need to be a rocket surgeon to know some one who is vomitting blood needs immediate medical attention - not arrest.

My point is, the blame is going to the hospital staff who ignored this woman and the 911 dispatchers who refused to help her and there will be NO accountablity for the police who are just as responsible for this womans death.

I imagine that the cops were acting at the request of the hospital which had already ruled in some way ,shape or form that the woman did not need medical attention and was just clogging up space because she wanted to make people's lives difficult. By the time she was coughing blood it was probably too late.

she got to the hospital...its her fault.
bets on that one??
Another example of W's dispassionate world.