Police/Security involvement

Police/Security used to keep victim isolated. Families threatened with arrest.

56 documented testimony clips

These testimony clips are drawn from interviews conducted by CHBMP with families and survivors. Each clip stands as evidence and remembrance. We share them to honor those who came forward, to seek accountability, and to ensure these experiences are never forgotten.

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“"And they kept saying, you're leaving AMA against medical advice. And I said, no. I'm not leaving AMA because I have a lot of doctors advising me if I don't leave, I'm gonna die. I'm leaving home hospice, not AMA. And we went back and forth. The police were called. They kinda had like, for hours. I think we were there about six or seven hours going back and forth negotiating this.”
From the testimony of Gail Seiler
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00:01:15.515 - 00:01:22.015
“"I was forced to watch my father die violently through glass while I was threatened and assaulted by the police.”
From the testimony of Constantine Kotsanis
Emotional TraumaEthical ComplaintsFamily Decision ExclusionPatient Rights ViolatedPsychological Impact
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00:13:45.299 - 00:14:08.154
“"the Grapevine police show up to my my doorstep...expressed concern about my website and my signs.”
From the testimony of Constantine Kotsanis
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00:10:20.144 - 00:12:22.220
“"And I couldn't believe what I was hearing. So there's all these nurses, ten of them, standing in front of my dad's window just staring at them. And they're no. None of them have their nametags on. And there's this one nurse that Sarah Grice, the girl that kills her that kills my dad. She's standing there like this, waiting with her hands like this, and Rommel Lontango, who is the nurse practitioner in charge of my dad's case, Rommel Lontango, bald guy, he hands the syringe to Sarah. And I'm thinking to myself, what is going on here? Well, my dad has a pulse of a hundred and twenty two. She injects him. His pulse rapidly starts to decrease, and she started doing the most violent chest compressions I've ever seen in my life. ... my dad was tied in restraints, obviously, because his body was bouncing ten inches off the table. ... the cop starts pushing me out of the ICU, you know, telling me leave right now. ... and then, the nurse turned off all the machines in front of them. ... cause of death, COVID nineteen. It's like they already had it ready to go. Huge cover up. Total cover up.”
From the testimony of Constantine Kotsanis
Advocacy EffortsDeathEmotional TraumaEthical ComplaintsExperimental DrugsFamily Decision ExclusionForced Palliative CareNegligence ClaimsNo Informed ConsentPatient Rights ViolatedPsychological ImpactTreatment ComplicationsVentilator Use
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00:06:17.269 - 00:06:22.149
“"So we were we we were threatening attempted murder charges if you didn't let let us see my dad right now.”
From the testimony of Constantine Kotsanis
Emotional TraumaFamily Decision ExclusionPatient Rights Violated
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00:17:22.515 - 00:17:35.410
“"I asked to see her, and I told them if they didn't let me see her at that time, I was going to tear the hospital apart brick by brick, and I was gonna go put it on her desk. And I meant it. I was mad.”
From the testimony of Shannon Marie Jordan McDonald
Advocacy EffortsPatient Rights Violated
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00:14:54.809 - 00:15:08.750
“"That robot thing was still in there. Like, they watched us they watched us on camera while we're trying to grieve. Oh. That really, really bothers me.”
From the testimony of Reynolds W. Grant, Jr.
Emotional TraumaEthical ComplaintsFamily Decision ExclusionPsychological Impact
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00:05:09.479 - 00:05:15.979
“"this is an invasion, and it's wrong, and it's unconstitutional, and it's just it it needs to stop.”
From the testimony of Jo Ann Gabriele
Ethical ComplaintsLegal ActionsLegal ChallengesNo Informed ConsentPatient Rights Violated
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00:02:31.050 - 00:02:50.435
“"Well, a matter of three days, I stopped getting phone calls from him. [...] Finally, I called the police, and they went down there and they kicked the door in.”
From the testimony of David B Cummings
DeathEmotional TraumaFamily Decision ExclusionNegligence Claims
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00:18:33.625 - 00:18:48.319
“"the nurse came in, and he goes, were you just taking pictures? And I go, yes. He goes, you need to delete them. And I said, no. He goes, no. You have to delete them. Did you take a video? And I go, I took a video and pictures. He goes, delete them. Delete them now.”
From the testimony of Barbara Lowney
Ethical ComplaintsNo Informed Consent
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00:04:28.294 - 00:06:38.360
“"I asked, the nurse that had shown us the labs to please inform the doctor that this patient had pneumonia and needed to be treated right away. And she said, sure, she'd do that, but no doctor came. So twelve hours later ... I got an infectious disease guy on the call at two o'clock in the morning ... the nurses got up and walked out of the room, completely abandoning my roommate ... they called the security, had me tied to my bed ... If you're gonna abandon that guy, I have no idea what's going on with my care, but I want out... he decided to, Baker Act me, which means he decided that I was a danger to myself or others.”
From the testimony of Suzanne Moore
Communication FailuresEmotional TraumaEthical ComplaintsNegligence ClaimsPatient Rights ViolatedPsychological ImpactSuffering Accounts
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00:12:03.735 - 00:12:36.629
“"They gave me a call. They told me he's coding. The nurse says that he wants to say something to me or speak to me, and I'm like right now, I'm like, just say them. I'm like, I'll be right I'll be over there as soon as possible... security guard said, you know, hey. She has a little girl here with her. What do we what do you wanna do?”
From the testimony of David H. Sackal
Emotional TraumaFamily Decision ExclusionPatient Rights Violated
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00:10:30.475 - 00:10:49.889
“"So I drove up there. I went to security, and I asked, you know, I need to know if my mother's dead or alive. No one's answering the phone. I mean, can someone can I speak to someone? I practically got thrown out. They were gonna call the police and have me arrested because I was harassing the security guard and the supervisor because I wanted to know where my mother was.”
From the testimony of Margaret(Peg) Rybas
Communication FailuresDeathEmotional TraumaFamily Decision ExclusionPatient Rights ViolatedPsychological Impact
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00:20:59.884 - 00:21:20.159
“"So they called security. So this huge security garden... they were watching over us as if we were just criminals.”
From the testimony of Lawrence Stephen Vargo
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00:09:49.799 - 00:10:30.179
“"after the third day, on the fourth day I got I went back to the hospital, and they refused to allow me to get into the hospital. They wouldn't let me... Obvious. it's fourth day now. He's not eating. You're not treating him. He's gonna die... They refused. They sent security to come and get me because I refused to leave the hospital.”
From the testimony of William Phillips
DeathDenied AlternativesDeteriorationEmotional TraumaEthical ComplaintsFamily Decision ExclusionNegligence ClaimsPatient Rights ViolatedProtocol Driven CareSuffering Accounts
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00:15:09.309 - 00:15:43.490
“"He said you can't go up there. He's got COVID. I said, what am I supposed to do? I I wanna make sure he's okay. You won't let me see him. I can't get ahold of him by phone. Nobody will call me. He said, go home. The security officer said, go home. I said, I live two and a half hours away. I am not leaving here until I know my husband's alright. And he just insisted that I go home or I would be arrested.”
From the testimony of Jeff Kozlovsky
Communication FailuresEmotional TraumaFamily Decision ExclusionPatient Rights Violated
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00:11:36.440 - 00:12:47.394
“"I walked into the hospital. I they took him to Mercy Hospital. We had been told the night before that I could be with him at Mercy. That wasn't true, but we didn't know it. And, so I get there, and I go in and found there for Jim Davis. And they said, he's in cove the COVID ER. And I said, I know. And and and they said you can't go back there because it's in COVID ER. And I said, well, I live with him. So and they said, get out of this hospital. And I said, no. I'm his health care advocate. I've got to be in there with him. And they said, no. You can't. We're not allowing anybody back there. Not allowing anybody in. And I said, you don't understand. I'm his health care advocate, and he needs me. I have to be in there with him. And they said, no. You can't come. And I said I kept trying to make sense to them, but they weren't having it. And, in fact, what they told me was, lady, get out of this hospital or we're gonna call the police and have you put in jail.”
From the testimony of Jimmy Don Davis
Advocacy EffortsCommunication FailuresDenied AlternativesEmotional TraumaFamily Decision ExclusionPatient Rights ViolatedSuffering Accounts
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00:15:31.434 - 00:18:43.029
“"He needs a medical advocate because he has had stroke eight times. If he's as sick as you say he is, then he does not comprehend what's going on, and I know, in fact, that he was given remdesivir...good. We want you to call them because right now, this is medical kidnapping. ...the security guard kept just saying, it's hospital protocol. Nobody could go back there.”
From the testimony of Thomas Joe Suggs
Advocacy EffortsCommunication FailuresDeteriorationEthical ComplaintsExperimental DrugsFamily Decision ExclusionPatient Rights ViolatedProtocol Driven CareRemdesivir Use
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00:10:24.295 - 00:10:43.990
“"But apparently, for a couple of days, they had told my family that they no longer had my medical power of attorney, and that they didn't have to give them updates. So that's when my husband goes to the hospital. They were threatened to be moved they removed by security. They couldn't come upstairs. They couldn't see me, couldn't talk to me.”
From the testimony of Stephanie Herren
Communication FailuresPatient Rights Violated
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00:33:08.500 - 00:33:20.600
“"I just couldn't but, you know, I was helpless. I couldn't do anything for them. If I would've went in, they would've arrested me. They even escorted my daughter and I out.”
From the testimony of Michael Beach
Family Decision ExclusionPatient Rights ViolatedPsychological Impact
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00:32:07.134 - 00:33:20.600
“"He called me from the hospital. That was after they gave him that stuff, and he said, come and get me. Get your granddaughter. Get me. They're trying to kill me here. But yet then he had hope when he went to the Twin Cities. So and then the nurse tried to tell me he was delirious. No. He probably had his mind then... If I would've went in, they would've arrested me. They even escorted my daughter and I out.”
From the testimony of Michael Beach
Emotional TraumaEthical ComplaintsFamily Decision ExclusionPatient Rights ViolatedProtocol Driven CareSuffering Accounts
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00:02:38.944 - 00:03:02.824
“"So I took him back, and they weren't even going to let him in. But we were out there, and I had to literally tell them, you either let him in or I'm gonna walk in there, and you don't want me in there. I have COVID. So they came out and got him, put some oxygen on, took him in. That was the last time I ever laid the heads on my husband or saw him until he was dying.”
From the testimony of Michael Beach
Advocacy EffortsDeathEmotional TraumaFamily Decision ExclusionPatient Rights ViolatedPsychological ImpactSuffering Accounts
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“"I was beaten. I was broken.”
From the testimony of Tony G
Emotional TraumaSuffering Accounts
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“"I was just watching my mouth not to say that they killed my husband. I knew that they killed. I saw it with my own eyes because I didn't want them to call police on me... They killed my husband for money. They do not care about people health anymore.”
From the testimony of Eugeniusz Lichosyt
Emotional TraumaEthical ComplaintsFinancial IncentivesPatient Rights Violated
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