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Family of NY woman wants answers to her airport death
By Karyn Chenoweth Oct 1, 2007, 11:01 GMT
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Three years ago in Nashville TN, I was returning home to California with my eldest son after flying there via private jet 3 days before to handle the death of my youngest son, killed there in a car accident while vacationing with his father who was hospitalized. I was tagged for extra scutiny having a one way ticket, and having a very beatup looking boy with me, my son who survived. We all were in extreme emotional turmoil. No one cared. The airport security separated us and started giving me a hard time while I told them what had happened. I was surrounded by security and almost ended up handcupped. Airport security do not care what your personal story is. There should be airline advocates to help when someone has extreme emotional stress and needs assistance.To be treated as a criminal instead of a person who has or is suffering something catostrophic would make anyone irate. I know because it happened to me. This woman was not allowed to tell her story. She is a victim and hopefully her death will initiate advocacy for innocent airline travelers.
It would appear that people with some authority, like the airport security, sometimes way overstep their bounds and let their jobs go to their heads - wanting to act like the 'big boys'! Much investigation will certainly go into this particular case considering the well-known, respected people involved - not the usual riff raff in these situations.
Was this woman Hooded ? Did she get to call her lawyer? Do we live in a police state ?
One article said she was running, screaming through the airport. If this is the case, she probably should have been apprehended, but, hopefully, the truth will come out.
Hmmmm, let's see. My hands are cuffed behind my back and I want free. What do I do? I sit down, scoot my cuffed hands over my backside, up to the backs of my knees, then carefully hook them over my feet so that they're now in front of me. What does it have to do with my neck? Sounds like some rent-a-cop got rough and made up a story.
It is certainly looking like a Police State...this is only the beginning folks. What other freedoms are you going to give up for 'security' ?
I hope there is a witness or two that will come forward, that does not work for the airport or are associated with it in anyway. Then perhaps more of the truth will unfold. I cry for her children, for they will never get to hold and kiss their mother again, SoSad
I think that the police had every right to restrain a woman if they thought she was a danger to herself or others. I personally, would not want to be in an airport - nervous enough as it is nowadays - and have a screaming woman around me causing more nerves and distress.
Police brutality at airports is out of control. Especially when the police beat up and or kill young women and mothers. They never released the brain, heart or neck to the coroner that the family hired. It looks like they choked her to death and are covering it up with a fake story. I have never heard of anyone chocking themselves to death while handcuffed in a holding cell.
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DonaldOct 1st, 2007 - 12:31:58
This sounds very fishy to me. How can anyone choke themselves while handcuffed? 'She was very agitated and irate and angry'. They handcuffed her and took her to the holding room, where she kept screaming, authorities said. So some cop goes back to the cell to shut her up and she winds up dead.
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