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☆ Lawsuit Says Tennessee Hospital Shouldn't Have Discharged Woman Who Died, Police Should Have Helped
  + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Associated Press | Feb. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +4 min
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal lawsuit filed Friday says that a woman who died last February shouldn't have been discharged from a Tennessee hospital, forced to leave despite her pleas for more help and unassisted by security guards and police during a medical emergency. Security officers at the hospital called police Feb. 5, 2023, saying that Edwards had been evaluated and discharged, but she was refusing to leave. The lawsuit filed in Knoxville names three officers who were later disciplined by the city's police department, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel. But she is rebuffed by officers and hospital security guards who become frustrated with her inability to step up into the van and tell her she is faking her incapacity. “This was an emergency medical condition that began and worsened on hospital property and that was unequivocally preventable and treatable,” the lawsuit states.
Persons: Lisa Edwards, Edwards, she’s, ” Edwards Organizations: —, Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, Knoxville Police Department, Knoxville News Sentinel, Covenant Health, Fort Sanders Regional Medical, Labor, Rehabilitation Locations: KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Tennessee, Knoxville, Knox, U.S
☆ Almost every Black officer at this Tennessee police department says they’ve experienced discrimination
  + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Zachary Schermele | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +4 min
Almost all the 15 Black officers at the police department in Knoxville, Tennessee, have felt discriminated against, according to an external review of the department. Last year, the paper reported that department leadership had attempted to conceal an officer’s racist comments and deter a Black officer from making a complaint about the incident. “If you are a Black officer, you have to work five times harder, and officers will always second-guess you,” one anonymous officer says in the report. Black officers were also the least likely to say they felt there was a clear process for de-escalating problems internally. In recent years, amid many high-profile deaths of Black Americans at the hands of police, a significant number of Black officers have left some of the country’s largest departments.
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