• Kamilah Brock: Woman held in mental health facility because police didn't believe BMW was hers
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[QUOTE]A woman is suing New York City after she claims she was forced to spend eight days in a mental health facility and given a $13,000 (£8,500) bill because a police officer didn’t believe the BMW she was driving was hers. Kamilah Brock, 32, who is a banker, said that police had initially pulled her over at a red light in Harlem and asked her why her hands were not on the steering wheel. She said “I was dancing, I am at a light,” and was then asked to get out of the car. Brock was then taken into custody and transported to the NYPD’s 30th precinct where she says she was held for several hours before being released without charges. She was told to return to pick up her 2003 BMW 325Cl the next day. She goes on to say that when she returned to claim the car, police said they didn’t believe she was the rightful owner of the vehicle. “I just felt like from the moment I said I owned a BMW, I was looked at as a liar,” Brock told PIX 11. “They put me in handcuffs and said they just need to put me in handcuffs to take me to my car. And I said OK, whatever it's gonna take to get to my car.” “Then EMS approached me. And they said we're gonna take you to your car. And I'm like, in an ambulance? I'm going to my car in an ambulance? I'm going to my car in an ambulance? I was just so confused.” She was taken to Harlem hospital psychiatric ward, where she claims medical records obtained by her attorney, Michael Lamonsoff, show she was forced to take lithium and injected with powerful sedatives..[/QUOTE] [url]www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/black-woman-held-in-mental-hospital-because-police-didnt-believe-bmw-was-hers-10498704.html[/url]
Un-fucking-believable.
[quote]show she was forced to take lithium and injected with powerful sedatives..[/quote] Fuck that. Lithium is one thing, but when I read "powerful sedatives" my mind darts to shit which does nothing short of knocking you on your ass and leaves you a drooling mess while it fries your brain for a few hours. I hope NYC is sued to it's maximum.
[QUOTE]“He held onto me and then the doctor stuck me in the arm and I was on a stretcher and I woke up to them taking my clothes off, specifically my underwear,” she said in the interview,” according to the Daily Mail.[/QUOTE] Just crazy if this is true. I mean, wouldn't it be easy to verify the things she was claiming?
This is horrifying.
Forcing her to stay in a mental health facility and drugging her against her will is one thing, but sending her the fucking bill as well? I hope these fuckers are taken for every cent they have.
According to the article which the Independent references, she ran around in traffic during the stop and was acting irrational, answering the officers questions incoherently. Whilst at face value it does sound quite disturbing, it simply doesn't flow right, as if something is missing. I find it hard to believe that the emergency services, police, impound lot staff and psychiatric facility staff were all corrupt, "in on it" and biased against her ethnicity as her lawyer claims.
snip not gonna start down that road
[QUOTE=Gishank;48676490]According to the article which the Independent references, she ran around in traffic during the stop and was acting irrational, answering the officers questions incoherently. Whilst at face value it does sound quite disturbing, it simply doesn't flow right, as if something is missing. I find it hard to believe that the emergency services, police, impound lot staff and psychiatric facility staff were all corrupt, "in on it" and biased against her ethnicity as her lawyer claims.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I love how the Independent conveniently leaves this out and Huffington Post hides it towards the end of their article. Gotta love sensationalism. There's no way so many different parties would go to such an extent simply to mess with a woman simply because she's black.
Uh, here, ownership of the car is explicitly among the things printed into the "small technical license" which is issued when you register the vehicle and you are legally obliged to have the license on you while driving the car (even if it's someone's else's car and you borrow it - it's something else than driver's license). Does USA have nothing like that? Is there no way you can immediately prove ownership of the car on the spot?
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;48676643]Uh, here, ownership of the car is explicitly among the things printed into the "small technical license" which is issued when you register the vehicle and you are legally obliged to have the license on you while driving the car (even if it's someone's else's car and you borrow it - it's something else than driver's license). Does USA have nothing like that? Is there no way you can immediately prove ownership of the car on the spot?[/QUOTE] You have a license to drive and a registration for your vehicle. A police officer can enter the license plate on your car into their computer and see that it is indeed registered in your name, which is how they can figure out that a car is stolen if the owner has reported it as stolen. In this case, I think the police thought the woman was being belligerent, and historically when a woman is being belligerent to the police, they throw her in a mental institution.
[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;48676675]You have a license to drive and a registration for your vehicle. A police officer can enter the license plate on your car into their computer and see that it is indeed registered in your name, which is how they can figure out that a car is stolen if the owner has reported it as stolen. In this case, I think the police thought the woman was being belligerent, and historically when a woman is being belligerent to the police, they throw her in a mental institution.[/QUOTE] So "we didn't believe her it was her car" was bullshit excuse because checking that is matter of a minute?
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wineville_Chicken_Coop_Murders#Christine_and_Walter_Collins[/url] At first, I thought we were seeing a modern version of "code 12", but it seems like she was acting crazy anyway.
I kind of think if they sedated her heavily then she was probably going pretty ballistic which of course she wouldn't include in her version of the story. I have doubt they just strapped her into an ambulance as soon as she said she owned a BMW.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;48676345]Fuck that. Lithium is one thing, but when I read "powerful sedatives" my mind darts to shit which does nothing short of knocking you on your ass and leaves you a drooling mess while it fries your brain for a few hours. I hope NYC is sued to it's maximum.[/QUOTE] Sedatives usually means a combination of things like benadryl, ativan, and haldol. They're all pretty normal drugs with clear therapeutic uses. We call em' B-52's, inject them into someone's butt and watch them slowly start going to sleep.
[QUOTE=InvaderNouga;48676838]We call em' B-52's, inject them into someone's butt and watch them slowly start going to sleep.[/QUOTE][t]http://weaponsman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/B52SuperiorFirepower.jpg[/t] shh only dreams now
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;48676681]So "we didn't believe her it was her car" was bullshit excuse because checking that is matter of a minute?[/QUOTE] According to the article is worse than that, she went to an impound lot with proof of ownership and they put her in cuffs instead of taking her to her car
So this woman got stopped at a red light, transferred to a psychiatric hospital and pumped with sedatives. NYC Nightmare city.
[QUOTE=booster;48677862]So this woman got stopped at a red light, transferred to a psychiatric hospital and pumped with sedatives. NYC Nightmare city.[/QUOTE] no, she got stopped, arrested for dancing in traffic, then the next day she went to get her car from the impound and other officers threw her in a psychiatric ward
[QUOTE=Sableye;48678055]no, she got stopped, arrested for dancing in traffic, then the next day she went to get her car from the impound and other officers threw her in a psychiatric ward[/QUOTE] How can they even do that without due process? Also was no one looking for her?
[QUOTE=Ragekipz;48678373]How can they even do that without due process? Also was no one looking for her?[/QUOTE] I feel like theres more to this story then is being let on. There's something in the USA called Boxer law, basically the only time you can be involuntarily admitted to a Psychiatric Treatment Facility is if you're an imminent threat to yourself or anyone else, also you're required to be re-evaluated every 24 hours as long as you maintain involuntary admiszion. It's really hard for me to believe that the version of events as presented in the article are true. It would mean not only the police were conspiring against this woman, but the ENTIRE Hospital staff as well.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;48676681]So "we didn't believe her it was her car" was bullshit excuse because checking that is matter of a minute?[/QUOTE] Are you saying its bullshit on the part of the police? Read the article carefully... there are no statements from the police. She says[I] she thinks[/I] they did it because they didn't believe it was her car.
[QUOTE=Ragekipz;48678373]How can they even do that without due process? Also was no one looking for her?[/QUOTE] There is no due process when it comes to mental institutions here in the states. You'll lose all your rights too as soon as you walk in.
Where are people getting dancing in traffic from? The article reads like she was dancing in her car, not amongst cars???
[QUOTE=Xystus234;48679085]There is no due process when it comes to mental institutions here in the states. You'll lose all your rights too as soon as you walk in.[/QUOTE] Nah fam. Read Boxer law.
[QUOTE=InvaderNouga;48678870]It would mean not only the police were conspiring against this woman, but the ENTIRE Hospital staff as well.[/QUOTE] Because it's not likely that they would embellish or outright lie to the hospital staff right? All they'd see was some crazy woman screaming about her BMW after they got told she was a nutter.
For some reason, I find the fact that she was still sent the bill a lot more rage-inducing than the fact that she was forcibly medicated and held against her will.
The fuck, I mean there is no statement from the police just "I think they did this because I have a BMW." Way to much shit is being left out, nobody gets handcuffed when picking up a car from impound. Nobody gets arrested for "dancing at a light" Like, the cops can run the car and see who it is registered to. I refuse to believe that this woman was sent to a mental hospital over a car. I mean none of this makes sense.
i like how many in this thread are so desperately trying to refuse the possibility that maybe, just maybe, things are just how they look, i suppose it's just one big coincidence, it's not like the NYC police has a history of racism or anything right? or abuse of power, clearly that doesn't happen in the US :v: [QUOTE=yjhghtfh;48679829]Where are people getting dancing in traffic from? The article reads like she was dancing in her car, not amongst cars???[/QUOTE] it's pretty obvious that's what it meant, but some are pretending otherwise.
[QUOTE=MR-X;48681088]The fuck, I mean there is no statement from the police just "I think they did this because I have a BMW." Way to much shit is being left out, nobody gets handcuffed when picking up a car from impound. Nobody gets arrested for "dancing at a light" Like, the cops can run the car and see who it is registered to. I refuse to believe that this woman was sent to a mental hospital over a car. I mean none of this makes sense.[/QUOTE] Nooo but that wouldn't fit into my preconceived notion that the police are racist.
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