Comments on: Husband's Calls To Airport Came Too Late

Phoenix Police Say Call Logs Show Authorities Were Warned Too Late To Save Dead Woman

[grammawhamma]

Read yesterday''''s story. She did not cause a disturbance after missing her first flight. She started freaking out 1 hour and 43 minutes later...AFTER she talked to her husband on the phone. I think he said something to her to throw her into a rage. This husband needs to be investigated!!

[nativewoman]

...one less selfish, suicidal @sshole on my planet.
Posted by S_Temper at 04:30 PM : Oct 06, 2007

Hmmmm. Selfish @sshole on "your" planet?

Perhaps you recognize those same aspects of yourself in this woman.

The old "it takes one to know one" adage I guess.

[agnim]

"Husband''s Calls To Airport Came Too Late"

If the family knew that the woman had a sick, alcohol-eaten brain, then WHY IS SHE TRAVELING ALONE?

The police PRIMARY responsibility is to MAINTAIN LAW AND ORDER. Treating mental patients is lower down on the list.

The family of the deceased BEARS FULL RESPONSIBILITY!
NO ONE ELSE!

[erasmus6]

"She killed herself, and I''''m glad - one less selfish, suicidal @sshole on my planet." posted by S_Temper

We don''t know that she killed herself and suicidal she may have been but the "selfish @sshole" part I think describes you, not her.

crzmeat is right, a terrorist does not want to draw attention to themselves. This woman was obviously in distress and the first thing the security should have done was phone for medical help. And being out of control and in distress like she was, she should NOT have been left alone.

[Krazcarl]

S_temper...Sucidal peaple don''t go to treatment you go to treatment to learn to live.I wasn''t aware we paid police to abuse a 100 lbs. woman if 2 grown men are in fear of a smal unarmed woman they don''t need to be police perhaps town dogcatcher there they could cage and chain and be cruel and noone would it is almost obvios they went over the top on this. Terrorist try to blend in and try not to draw attention to themselves till they strike and that would be on the plane not at the airport where little damsge would be done. Yes dealing with a distrought woman is a total drag but never had to chain one to a table. I belive your wrong and this won''t get you out of your next ticket.

[facts6]

Why wasn''t her family escorting her to rehab? They probably had a gut full of her histronics. And now they are seizing the opprotunity to get something out of their hellish bondage with her. Anybody been around an egocentric female drunk for a while?

[strawberry47]

Good points, crzmeat. I can''t understand why we haven''t been allowed to see other camera footage of her arrest in the airport. There must be many cameras in that area. And yet, all we have is a distant set of images, with limited detail. How very convenient.

The two witnesses at the scene have already described ''excessive force'' being used; and no effort by the cops to talk to Carol. The witnesses were called Pittel and Harmon.

PITTEL says: "Very excessive (use of force) . They rushed in and grabbed her and threw her down. Nobody ever said anything to her, "lady, hey, calm down. Take a breath. Can I help you? What''s wrong?" anything like that."

Witness Harmon described Carol''s arrest in more detail:

"One of the officers ran towards her and grabbed her, and then the two other officers came up, and they -- one threw her to the ground, and then they -- it was as if they were tackling her. One of them pulled their arm -- her arm behind her with extreme force. I thought that they were going to -- or they had separated her shoulder. It looked very, very forceful.

Anyway, and then they -- in all of this, somebody -- one of the officers leaned down and pressed on her back. And then all of them were on her almost like they did a football tackle hold, and they got the -- they got the handcuffs on her. And then an officer came up to us and said, "move it along. Move it along. This isn''t anything for you to witness or for you to see." And so we reluctantly walked away."

[Krazcarl]

Have been following this story since the beginning and it''s good to see folks sketical. I have been the victum of police abuse and it''s scary when the boys take the gloves off and thier evil. She made the classic mistake of a first time offener and thought she could reason with police. She thought if she could get there attention and explain that she wasn''t a terrorist she would be released and get on her way, the system doesn''t worl like that they saw a lady that guestioned there authority and went in to teach her a lesson I''d put my paycheck on it. Is anyone outhere stupid enough to believe they would say we got a little aggresive and the result was death no this is cover your hinny time. The woman wasn''t a mental case she was a alcoholic that means alchol triggers a mechanim in her brain so she won''t stop till she goes to bed. Yes there were issues in the family part of the disease and they probably wanted to show they trusted her rehab only works if you want it and it sounds to me she was at that point. The majority of adults that go to treatment unacompapied.

[strawberry47]

God bless you Carol. In these awful set of bad circumstances, that all came together at the most unfortunate time, you needed help. But instead you encountered thugs with badges.

I find it criminal, to shackle someone and leave them alone. And even worse, given that the person needed help. It is simply unforgivable.

These ''law enforcers'' are nothing of the sort.

And something about their story stinks to high heaven. I cannot imagine how Carol would have managed to get the handcuffs around to her front.

[strawberry47]

God bless you Carol. In these awful set of bad circumstances, that all came together at the most unfortunate time, you needed help. But instead you encountered thugs with badges.

I find it criminal, to shackle someone and leave them alone. And even worse, given that the person needed help. It is simply unforgivable.

These ''law enforcers'' are nothing of the sort.

And something about their story stinks to high heaven. I cannot imagine how Carol would have managed to get the handcuffs around to her front.