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Anna Brown, 29, died on the floor of a jail cell within an hour of being dragged from St. Mary’s Hospital. As blood clots spread from her legs to her lungs the hospital staff was busy refusing her further treatment. She was arrested because she refused to leave, she said she was in to much pain to stand. So she was carried to a squad car and driven to the Richmond Heights Police Department where officers carried her into a cell and laid her on the floor. She was found dead only minutes later. Join the Facebook group Justice for Anna Brown Originally visiting the hospital due to a sprained ankle, she was unaware that the real problem was that her sprained ankle had caused blood clots. A doctor at St. Mary’s told police that she was okay to go, unwilling to properly treat the woman. At 7:33 in the video below, you can hear an officer in the cell after she died say, “we thought she was drug sick” but the autopsy revealed that she had not taken any drugs. http://youthrevolutionarycouncil.org/?p=10...
Posted By: DAVID JOHNSON
Tuesday, March 27th 2012 at 4:41PM
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Nicholas Pisca · Subscribe · Los Angeles, California
Video of a woman who got ****ty medical service, tried to complain, the hospital called the police, they literally dragged her into a jail cell, and she died 10 minutes later. In jail. I hope her family sues that hospital for 1 billion dollars. If I was on the jury, I'd award her family 10 billion.
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Tuesday, March 27th 2012 at 5:09PM
DAVID JOHNSON
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[Anna Brown's Death: Who Is Responsible for It—Her Mother, Police or St. Mary's?
...Dorothy Davis is asking who is responsible for her daughter Anna Brown's death, the 29-year-old homeless woman who died while in police custody last year. And Davis is unsure if the autopsy findings recently released point to police or St. Mary's Health Center as the responsible party.
Davis has hired St. Louis-based legal counsel to represent her and is saying that, "If the police killed my daughter I want to know. If the hospital is at fault I want to know." But what she isn't asking, but possibly should, is if her own unwillingness to aid her daughter led to the woman's death.
The September jail death of Anna Brown resulted only after she sought treatment from three separate medical facilities for pain she was experiencing in her leg. ... This supports St. Mary's statement reported by STL Today, that even when a medical facility uses advanced technology in their testing methods that, "blood clots can still be undetected in a small number of cases."
St. Mary's was the third stop Brown had made to medical facilities to discuss her continuing leg pain, so her two earlier visits to other facilities for treatment also didn't solve her health problem or diagnose it.
Medical facilities can't guarantee they can cure patients' conditions or diseases, or even diagnose everything that is wrong when they treat people in ER settings or otherwise, of course. So if St. Mary's can prove they took all possible measures to give proper care before Anna Brown's death, her mother Dorothy Davis can't really blame them for her daughter's death legally.
The law enforcement agency that responded to the scene when Anna Brown refused to leave St. Mary's premises peacefully aren't to blame for her death legally either, as she had her medical condition before they arrived.
And they didn't cause the young woman's health problem during the arrest process or by carrying her into her jail cell. And they, like St. Mary's, had no idea Brown had blood clots in her legs when they took her into custody.
That just leaves Dorothy Davis, Anna Brown's mother, as the possible responsible party, since she was the one who could have helped her child escape a homeless condition and the physical challenges that led to her leg condition in the first place. But she didn't.
But what mother wants to blame herself? It is far easier to point the finger at a faceless entity like a hospital or the police than own up to one's own role in the demise of a loved one. Yet it was Davis who refused to allow her own daughter shelter in her home after several other tragedies had befallen the mother of two. But what mother wants to blame herself? It is far easier to point the finger at a faceless entity like a hospital or the police than own up to one's own role in the demise of a loved one.
According to MSNBC, Brown had already suffered other losses in her life recently, starting with a 2010 New Year's Eve tornado that destroyed her home. After relocating to another home, the young mother then went on to suffer a job loss. With that loss come the inevitable loss of home power and expected child welfare oversight, which led to a need for family intervention and help.
Anna Brown's mother Dorothy Davis was that family intervention, but not in the way one might expect or hope. While Davis agreed to take in Brown's two children, the mother now demanding answers about who is responsible for her daughter's death actually refused to allow her own daughter to move in as well at that time.
"Davis received custody of Brown's children on the condition that Brown couldn't also live with them, and Brown's home was condemned," MSNBC reported If Anna Brown's own mother refused to give her daughter shelter in a time of need, how then can she justify attempting to blame organizations that were unable to find a medical condition brought on by homeless living conditions? And how could she hope to win any legal suit to that end?
http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?... ]
Friday, March 30th 2012 at 9:07PM
Jen Fad
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@Mikey I grew up in Chicago where the evidence of government perpetuating racism is evident by the racially segregated neighborhoods. Her lack of resources wasn't because she was a black woman. It was because of the system that's in play. There's no cure for aids because the money is in the treatment. Crack wasn't invented by a thug, it was a scientist that did that. And every time you turn on the tv, we're keeping up with the kardashians or watching some red carpet event. From the media, to the laws of our land they control us. For 98% of human existence we thrived without government. We lived in harmony with the land and for the most part, eachother. During the last 2% of our existence we've let a few ballers bring this planet and its inhabitants to the brink of destruction. Until we figure out that its not about black and white, but what's right and wrong... Nothing will change
Saturday, March 31st 2012 at 1:51AM
DAVID JOHNSON
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Shonna Marie Lovato · Works at Foot Locker
Really? Drug sick, is that what people see when a black person is in PAIN? They just automatically assume she's "drug sick" they wouldn't give her the services that she needed so they called the police because she refused to leave seeing that she was in PAIN and couldn't stand after she died a cop stated he thought that she was drug sick, it seems to me our crys for help are getting quiter & quiter.... Her family needs to own that damn hospital and police department! WTF!
Saturday, March 31st 2012 at 1:52AM
DAVID JOHNSON
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@ Brother Boulware,
The (3) hospital(s) she had visited didn't refuse treatment, because by law the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act mandates that hospitals can not refuse anyone treatment. This sister had been treated by 3 other hospitals, but she was demanding pain medications for a sprain for which she had already been prescribed medications like Ibuprofen and Flexeril . That is the treatment for a sprain along with wrapping the sprain, putting ice on it, and no weight bearing on the affected site.
My suspcious as was St. Mary's was that this sister had an addiction and presented with drug seeking behavior. The blood clots were probably already there and the young lady had them for a while. Would the hospital had known to xray or scan her lungs if she came in for pain in her foot, ankle, or wherever? Probably not, but had they it would have been an incidential finding not the primary reason the sister came to the hospital.
I am trying to be careful here because I know how much our people can be so sentimental and overlook facts when it comes to things like this, but why is it that her own mother refused shelter but gave shelter to the children? That is a huge FLAG to me. I suspect that Anna was an addict; however, I am just speculating but "there is something in this milk isn't clean and the cow knows about it."
Saturday, March 31st 2012 at 6:51AM
Jen Fad
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I hear you Sis! I too realize that the symptoms are junkie related... But yes, they should have xrayed the area of complaint. The mother knew what was up. The hospital staff probably suspected shadiness as well. However, once again, pain is pain and it signals that something is not right... Testing should have been done. They identify drug dependency as an illness, yes? They should have treated it like and illness.
Like many of us from the hood, we like to think that we can know a junkie when we see one. But what about the suffering folks who appear to be druggies and are actually suffering from alcoholism and diabetes or aids, not to mention hepititis (hope I spelled it right), they actuall can appear to be junkies in the late stages of their illnesses.
The woman should have been treated like any other patient and diagnosed correctly... she might have been here to tell us all about it.
Peace and Love,
Greg.
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Saturday, March 31st 2012 at 11:56AM
Gregory V. Boulware, Esq.
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Testing should have been done. ...
And that further testing would have come from her (Brown's) Primary Care Physician if in fact she had a primary care physician for which I suspect she had none. I suppose this is another reason why Universal Health Care is needed in this country so that folk that fall into the likes of our dearly departed sister will be able to go to the hospital knowing that their complaints, pains, symptom, etc, .... will be further investigated.
My heartfelt prayers go out to her children who will miss her the most.
Saturday, March 31st 2012 at 3:10PM
Jen Fad
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Ms. Fad either you haven't read my question on your guestbook page or I'm speaking in Vietnamese lol.........
Again I ask you, What has Sis. Siebra ever done to you to make you hate her so much????
Where do you hang out Ms. Fad? Let's meet up for lunch shall we?
Saturday, March 31st 2012 at 4:07PM
tiffany stewart
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HUMMM! SIEBRA ?? WHAT HAPPEN DID I MISS SOMETHING ?
Saturday, March 31st 2012 at 5:23PM
DAVID JOHNSON
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OK ,,TIFFANY I SEE HOW THE FIGHT STARTED.and the insult from JEN ,,,,,NOT GOOD ,,,
but it ended in a battle about religion ONLY AT BIA ,,,WHAT ELSE IS NEW ..IM GOING TO START A FIGHT WITH MS ROBERT POWELL,,, HELL LETS GET IT IN !!LOL;;;
Saturday, March 31st 2012 at 5:58PM
DAVID JOHNSON
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My first experience with a blood clot happened one morning when I got up and walked down the stairs. I also thought I had a sprain or had pulled a muscle or something. Lucky for me the clot didn't move into my lung, but it did move up my leg and then my ankle swelled, and that was when I went to see the doctor. It was easily found by ultrasound, and I was immediately sent to the hospital and started on Heparin.
Monday, September 3rd 2012 at 4:15AM
Steve Williams
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Wow, that brought tears to my eyes, because she "the Sister" could be mines, yours; sister, cousin, friend, associate, niece, etc., it doesn't matter, she is a human and deserves much better then what she received. I pray that her family sues the pants off the hospital to the point they will have to rename it “Anna Brown Memorial Hospital". And don’t let the police off the hook!
Friday, October 12th 2012 at 5:52PM
James Sanford
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Thank you Broher Janes for your esteemed comment and opinion.
Peace and Love,
Greg.
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Monday, October 15th 2012 at 2:45AM
Gregory V. Boulware, Esq.
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