BLACK WOMAN DIES IN JAIL AFTER BEING DRAGGED BY POLICE FROM HER HOSPITAL BED: JUSTICE FOR ANNA BROWN!

(Deceased Black Woman Anna Brown,29)

The woman died in a Richmond Heights jail cell last year, and people are going online to demand health-care access for Americans from President Barack Obama.

By Nate Birt

More than 12,500 people have signed an online health-care petition formed after the death of Anna Brown in a Richmond Heights jail cell, the website Change.org notes.

Brown died shortly after police took her from SSM St. Mary's Health Center to the city's detention facility on Dale Avenue. She died of blood clots, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch investigation, though police initially thought she might have been using drugs.

"In the memory of Anna Brown, we demand access to adequate health care for all Americans," the petition directed at President Barack Obama states.

An attorney for the city said this week that police had to go on what medical officials told them.

As of 3:36 p.m., 12,520 people had signed the petition, which aims to collect 15,000 names.

The petition links to a Facebook page called Justice for Anna Brown, which garnered 7,808 'Likes' as of 2:20 p.m.

The website lists Jonathan Dedering of Milwaukee, WI, as the petition's founder. He could not immediately be reached for comment.

Description of the Anna Brown Case & Video Below:

"Anna Brown, 29, died on the floor of a jail cell within an hour of being dragged from St. Mary’s Hospital. As

blood clots spread from her legs to her lungs the hospital staff was busy refusing her further treatment. She was arrested because she refused to leave, she said she was in to much pain to stand. So she was carried to a squad car and driven to the Richmond Heights Police Department where officers carried her into a cell and laid her on the floor. She was found dead only minutes later.
Originally visiting the hospital due to a sprained ankle, she was unaware that the real problem was that her sprained ankle had caused blood clots. A doctor at St. Mary’s told police that she was okay to go, unwilling to properly treat the woman. At 7:33 in the video below, you can hear an officer in the cell after she died say, “we thought she was drug sick” but the autopsy revealed that she had not taken any drugs."
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Justice-for-Anna- Brown

(Video Courtesy of WorldStar)


(Story Courtesy of dayton-richmondheights patch)