An "accidental death" of a woman in Arizona. The wife with 3 children was detained for going ballistic after she missed her connecting flight. She tried to escape from the handcuffs. In doing so she suffocated herself.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/law/03/26/airport.death/index.html#cnnSTCText
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Carol Gotbaum ended up killing herself after being detained in the airport. She was left alone and handcuffed. The family claims the police department used excessive and unreasonable force. last time I checked putting a person in handcuffs just meant they were detained if not arrested. It was due to her actions that she killed herself. I don't believe the police did their job watching a detainee to make sure something like this did not happen. I do not think the family should receive this $8 Million claim becuase it was not the fault that Carol tried to get out of handcuffs and ended up suffocating herself over it. I do believe they should receive some money do to the negligence of the police department to detain her or hold her down or something so that she could not lift the cuffs over her arms. I do believe that they will receive every penny of that claim becausejudges now a days are more open to helping the family. Another reason to have input she was going crazy in the first place which is why they detained her in the first place. She was screaming and disorderly and once left alone for a few minutes the article said the police came back and she was unconscious and rescuers were unable to resuscitate her. Key points in this case will be the time left alone, why the officers left in the first place, and time before rescuers were called to respond.
I agree with you I do not think the family should receive this $8 Million claim because it is not the police department fault. I also do not believe they should receive any money at all even though they did fail to handle their person in custody with "great care"! In some cases like this the judges do seem to go with the mishaps of the family but also some families do want a quick buck. Because she was screaming and disorderly and was hard to detain the police could not know what her condition was.
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