Another thing to make Detroit look bad

[The D]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/10/911.lawsuit/index.html

A wrongful death lawsuit was filed Monday on behalf of a 6-year-old Michigan boy whose mother died after he called 911 only to be scolded by an emergency operator for playing on the phone.

Attorney Geoffrey Fieger said the family of Sherrill Lynn Turner, Robert Turner's mother, is seeking $1 million in damages from the city of Detroit.

The suit names two unidentified dispatchers. Fieger said the city is not named directly as a defendant because cities are immune from suit in Michigan but are liable for the conduct of their employees.

Fieger said Sherrill Turner would have survived if help had been sent immediately

Robert Turner, who was 5 at the time, called 911 on February 20 and reported that his mother, who had an enlarged heart, had collapsed. (Full story)

The boy told CNN he tried to shake her and called 911 for help when he couldn't wake her. (Watch the boy's tears as he tells what happened -- 2:02)

He quoted a dispatcher as telling him, "Stop playing on the phone." The child called back three hours later, but it was hours after that before anyone came to his home, said Fieger.

In a written statement, the city of Detroit asked that no one rush to judgment and promised to take disciplinary action if warranted.

At a news conference announcing the filing of the suit, Fieger said Robert Turner's case is not the only one.

He played another 911 tape from January 12, 2005, in which a woman who had been shot in the head by her husband called 911.

On the tape, the operator can be heard asking the woman if she has a mental problem and then asking that the husband who shot the woman be put on the phone. Rescuers did not come until a third call was placed by the woman's son, who lives out of state.

The woman in that case, said Fieger, lived but is paralyzed. He said the second case "indicates to the city that they have a problem that needs to be addressed."

911 operators like this not only need to be fired, but beaten with sticks and whips.

[TM2 Rampage]

They should be given phones with only the numbers 9 and 1 and then tortured/killed in silly, outrageous, and embarrassing ways.

I remember reading a Nuri thread where she complained about a similar incident happening to her.

Anyway, they should be suing the dispatchers.

[tomduo]

If it was a white operator, you know Jesse Jackson would be there.

Fuck black folks.

[Wickedly Yours E]

FUCK Jesse Jackson.

[IDE]

That poor fucking kid...he deserves more than 1 million.

20 million should do it.

You let my mom die = I never work for the rest of my life.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

Just playing devil's advocate here, but how many prank calls do you imagine 911 dispatchers deal with on a daily basis?  

But even so, a child calling and reporting a downed family member is serious...call a cop out of his doughnut shop for ten minutes to at least chell, thank you.  If it's a prank, you have caller ID and stuff...just beat the child's ass and chalk it up to community service.

Anyway, there needs to be some damages for the family's emotional anguish and lost wages over this...$1M seems a pretty low-ball figure.  

 

[B E C K]

I agree.

[The D]

Oh, and now we have that damn rapper that no one's heard of (besides Eminem, since he visited the corpse in the hospital) that got into a gun fight in a nightclub with a Iraq2 vet, and then their homies had to jump in, and the obscure rapper and vet both died, and several other people were injured.

Remeber kids, GUNS SOLVE EVERYTHING! (if you're black)

[IDE]

At least they kept it "real"

[Extra Zero]

As a twist, I'd like to see rappers start turning guns on themselves.

[Rama]

That would make a wonderful show.  

[B E C K]

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

[Rodent of Unusual Size]

At least they kept it "real"

<Chris Rock>Niggas love to keep it real...real DUMB!</Chris Rock>

[tomduo]

Why did Dave Chappelle > Chris Rock in popular culture?

...I miss Chris Rock.