Knoxville police under fire after woman experiencing stroke dies following arrest
A police chief said Tuesday he was “disturbed and embarrassed” after police tried to jail a 60-year-old disabled woman who begged them for help as she suffered a stroke.
Lisa Edwards, 60, died Feb. 6 at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center in Knoxville following a stroke sustained in police custody.
Footage showed Knoxville police officers struggling to get a distressed Edwards, who was charged with trespassing, to enter a jail transport van, before they ultimately load her into a police cruiser, where she became completely unresponsive on the way to jail.
The incident has caused uproar in Knoxville, where residents decried the officers’ callousness as Edwards experienced a medical emergency. Her family this week said it plans to sue the police department, and possibly the hospitals who had treated her prior to her arrest.
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