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Washington State Troopers Charged Her With Drunken Driving. But Her Brain Was Bleeding.
(www.nytimes.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2024
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I dunno, maybe when she said she wasn't feeling well, at least have someone look at her to verify? Even if that means they have to do it 1000 times to only find something like this once, isn't that worth not potentially destroying someone's life by delaying necessary treatment?
Don't know how it works there, but where I live, cops can suspect heavily that you're drunk, but without a positive alcootest they can't charge you. If you don't want the alcootest, they send you to the hospital to have a blood analysis. It would have been the best scenario for this woman.
She was having a brain bleed and didn't know it. She couldn't even put on a pair of pants, and you expect her to be clear headed enough to figure out that she needs to deny an alcohol test so she can be taken to the hospital?
They did an alcohol test on her after they took her back to the station.
Drunk people say they don’t feel well all the time, so often it’s a movie cliche that the person says it then hurls.
And cops don’t care about ruining lives, they do it so much they probably think that is what they’re supposed to do
So what if a drunk person isn’t feeling well? What’s the downside of offering medical attention? The worst that can happen is a blood test to clinch the charges, or you might be a hero for saving someone’s life