National News: L.A. DA Says High-Profile Hospital Death Is No Crime; Famed Death-Row Inmate Wants Another Trial; Affirmative Action Haters Want The Program Banned
July 9th, 2008Like the recent N.Y. case, Edith Rodriguez was ignored as she yelled in pain on the floor
Prosecutors in Los Angeles will not lodge criminal charges against workers at a predominantly Black hospital where a woman died screaming in pain as staff ignored her, The Associated Press reported. City officials said in a report released Tuesday that there was too little evidence to charge a nurse and other staff at the former Martin Luther King, Jr.-Drew Medical Center in the death of Edith Isabel Rodriguez, a 43-year-old mother of three, according to AP. Rodriguez died of a ruptured bowel on May 9, 2007. Los Angeles Police took her to the emergency room after finding her yelling for help in front of the hospital. She had been released from the emergency room just three hours before, given a prescription and told to see a doctor. Upon her return visit, a nurse told her, “…[T]here’s nothing we can do.” Rodriguez fell on the floor and writhed in pain for 45 minutes as hospital workers toiled at their desks and patients looked on. The case is eerily similar to a June 19 case at the Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, where 49-year-old Esmin Green died after falling to the floor and remaining there for about an hour as staff ignored her. In that case, Green’s family filed a $25 million lawsuit this week.
Famed death-row inmate wants another trial

Mumia Abu-Jamal, the journalist and former Black Panther member who is in prison for killing a Philadelphia police officer 27 years ago, is asking for a new trial. His attorneys argue that the federal appeals court that denied him a new trial in the killing of Officer Daniel Faulkner should have pondered the question of whether prosecutors deliberately denied Blacks the right to serve on the jury, which violates a later Supreme Court ruling. Robert R. Bryan, who represents Abu-Jamal, and Widener University law Professor Judith Ritter, asked the three-judge panel and the full Third Circuit court to review the case again. Convicted in 1982, the 54-year-old Abu-Jamal gained legendary status while on Pennsylvania’s death row. He is the author of several books, and his taped commentaries are aired on radio shows nationwide. He has maintained his innocence from the beginning.
Affirmative action haters want the program banned
Despite recent failures to get anti-affirmative action measures on ballots in Missouri and Oklahoma, supporters of such initiatives say they’ll reap success in Nebraska and Arizona this time around. They contend that they’ve gathered the necessary signatures, unlike in Missouri and Oklahoma. But opponents of efforts to ban affirmative action aren’t sitting still while the program they say is a needed to ensure equal opportunity for qualified minorities is held back by race. They are going after Arizona signature-gatherers in a lawsuit, alleging that they are using deceptive means to trick supporters of affirmative action into signing their petitions. They point to the name of the anti-affirmative action measure as an example – the American Civil Rights Initiative. Petitioners traditionally tell unsuspecting individuals that they are trying to ensure equal opportunity in hiring, knowing full well that potential signers will be duped into believing that they helping ensure the survival of affirmative action, critics contend. “There’s a significant difference between submitted signatures and valid signatures,” David Kramer, head of Nebraskans United, which opposes the measure, told The Associated Press. “We’ll wait to see the outcome of that process before litigation.” If the anti-affirmative action forces are successful, a constitutional amendment would make it illegal for public entities to give preferential treatment on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin.
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I can not believe that this so-called hospital in Los Angeles would ignore that woman like that. She is outside on the ground screaming for help and they are ignoring her? Wow! Nurses and workers like this should be banned from ever working in an emergency establishment like this because they are too cold-hearted to care. Its just a shame…the hospital should be sued. I don’t care IF she had just been released with a prescription 5 minutes prior to her bowel rupturing…she should have been re-admitted and even IF she DIDN’T have insurance. Although it wasn’t mentioned in the story…it sounds like a case of a patient not having insurance so she was denied services…”oh, ur bowel is ruptured…die in pain bcoz u can’t afford painkillers”. I just don’t know what the world is coming to! I hope that those nurses and possibly doctors as well that ignored her, will one day grow a concience and apologize to her family.
I don’t think the hospital check the woman out thoroughly and I find them at fault. Martin Luther medical center has always been one of the hospital in the Los Angeles county to avoid. She would have been going to the county hospital.
I worked in the emergency room for awhile and I can relate to this case so well. No, I didn’t see someone die but I most definitly can relate to cold-hearted nurses as well as some doctors who seem to forget they are not exempt from having sickness come upon them. I’ve seen patients mishandled and mistreated as if it was some kind of game. This is just an exposure of the things that happen in the medical field each and every day! Although there are things many think they are getting away with, one day, even if they don’t apoligize to this family, they will have to give an account for their actions!
Man, that hospital wouldn’t even be standing anymore if that was me screaming to death on the floor. Soon as my family would have found out, they would have burned that place to the ground…….
I live here in the LA area, and that hospital has a nickname of “Killer King Hospital”. What a shame it is.
No fault huh? Wow. That’s all that can be said for the complete and utter disregard for a human life like that. She is a mother, a daughter, perhaps a wife, a sister to someone. How can the hospital staff not be found at fault in some form of fashion for IGNORING a woman writhing in pain on the hospital floor? To check on her to see at least what is wrong is one thing, but to ignore someone to the point of death is just sickening. I don’t wish bad upon anyone, but let that have been one of their family members. God sees all and knows all and they surely wouldn’t want to feel the wrath of HIM. This is a sad, sad case. I really do hope that justice will be served at least for the children’s sake. She didn’t ask to have a ruptured bowel. She didn’t ask to be in pain. Heck, I’m sure she didn’t ask to be in the hospital in the first place, but since she was there, she should have gotten the treatment she deserved. She was a human with feelings like everyone else. She deserved to be treated as a patient, not as some thrown away object. I can’t stand reading about stuff like this. It’s just sickening and sad.
Shameful the way humans treat each other…even in the so-called “care-giving” professions. Absolutely shameful!!
of course the hospital incident (and ones like them) was a crime!…crime to humanity !… .it̵ 7;s too bad if there is not a law OR if there is a law, a loophole, something! ….that protects citizens from dying in vain in a protected, safe, healthcare facility ..(we as a community should feel AND be safe in a healthcare facility with so-called healthcare professionals all around!!! )where was the heart in all of this!!??? (yeah…..I know…..busy, understaffed, overcrowded…..I say, NO EXCUSES, NO EXCSUES, NO EXCUSES& #8230;.p eriod!)< br /> What Do You Say!?
This just goes to show that the oath that doctors take means nothing! They are only concerned with how much money they can get. Those who don’t have insurance are left to die in the street or in this case the waiting room. How could anyone sit and watch someone die like this. The word compassion should be scratched out of all medical books and replaced with greed. I know that my soul would not allow me to sit by and watch someone die.. even if I didn’t know the. I wonder how their souls feel. We have the same problem in East St. Louis, IL. No one has died yet, but they are pressing their luck.
No one is shocked that there is a push to eliminate affirmative action. After the democratic primary process it became obvious that this nation still struggles with the issue of race. There has been factions in this country that for whatever reason, believe that America is for white people. They have no patience, understanding or tolerance for anything other than “white.” They believe that they are the only “real” Americans here and that everyone else is a foreigner or immigrant.
The reality is that the only “true” Americans are the Native Americans. Everyone, including white folks are immigrants. The fact that they are pushing this legislation is proof that certain people don’t desire to share the American Dream with anyone but other white people. They know that people of color won’t be treated fairly if there’s no law in place to force them to do the right thing. Even with the laws racist employers violate the rights of legal citizens all the time. The courts are full of cases where qualified people of color have been denied employment and/or promotion based solely on their race or gender. The recent primary exposed both the racism and sexism that still exist in OUR country.
For them to claim that the current laws discriminates against white people demonstrates their lack of understanding of the condition that created the need for affirmative action. No matter what white people say in public when the cameras are on, they will not and do not play fair when they think the cameras are off. Hatred and prejudice are a heart condition. That’s why its hard for whites to understand it and why they continue to live in denial. They don’t get the fact that they have been socialized by a nation that still practices racist policies and behaviors.
Affirmative Action is not in place to change white folks. Only God can deal with the hearts of men/women. Its there to insure that personal hatred and prejudice will not legally be practiced in the work place. Plain and simple.
They can continue to hate if they desire. That’s their right. What they can’t do is implement that hatred into their hiring and promotion practices.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said something that was profound and prophetic; “People change laws, but laws don’t change people.”
I hope the Anti-Affirmative action legislation does not go through. Just goes to show you-read before you sign. And even then tricky language in the petition duped people. All these “studies” done by news programs over the last 10 years (i.e. Primetime did an experiment, so did 20/20) prove that there is STILL discrimination in hiring , job advancement, and housing. But of course, proponets of this Anti-Affirmative action don’t see that-even with all the studies and articles done on the subject. The fight ain’t over just b/c we have “civil rights”
The only Reason that the hospital is being cleared , the huge law suite that will follow in a ruling of wrong full death. But the family of miss Rodriguez will win in civil court.
HOSPITAL DEATHS - The MLK, Jr. Hospital was blatantly negligent in treating this woman who had been there 3 hrs before she died on the floor of the ER like an animal. EVERYBODY who was present and licensed to treat patients should be held accoutable for this. It is a shame that this has happened. Who do people trust in the medical field these days and why have an ER if you are not going to treat people who are desperately ill?
ABU-JAMAL If he was not given a fair trial then it should be reopened and see what happened .
AFFIR MATIVE ACTION - It remains to be seen how this will play out. If it is something for the minorities, most people will be against it because the powers that be don’t want us to have anything if they could have their way and they are not willing to treat us as others are treated, so…
I am for affirmative action because that is the only reason i was hired i came in and as most corporate places where their is room for advancement is mostly white we had no black men in the corporate office and now i moved to a new department and I am teh only black female and we have 3 black gentleman so that is a total of 4 in an office of almost 80. Do you really think that is wasn’t a black individual that was more qualified but didn’t get the job yeap….but in the warehouse that is where all the black men are and more black women i knew they were somewhere we need that sad but we need it i am sure i would not have been given the opportunity to work and use my skills and education if it wasn’t for that…ok here is an example when i started working i was getting paid nothing i have an AA degree in that field and 2 years experience even after my review i had taken on lots of responsibility and they gave me 50 cents but anywho an member of our executive committee requested that i move up bc i do a great job never complaining doing this without being asked just going above and beyond and he brought me over to the new position and he paid me but the girl that was coming in the replace me (white) we have the same AA degree except i graduated in the top 3% of my class and had honors everything and i think i had a little more experience in Accounts payable but they started her salary like $3 more than mine but then she couldn’t get the work done we had customers complaining so now they took away half her duties now if that had have been me i would have been fired a long time ago there is no way i would have been able to keep job and i can’t do the job but none the less i have spoken with my ex supervisors and they say they didn’t realize how much i meant to the accounting department until i was gone the VP of finance even offered me a pay equal to what i am making now to stay to little too late
I am angry angry angry at the hospital that let that lady die like she did that day. I 100% believe that the hospital and the staff that was there that night should be held responsible for that lady’s death. I am a nurse and as nurses we are taught in school that we are not only nurses bur advocates for the patients as well. Did these people just simply didn’t care about this person or for any other patient that comes through those hospital doors? I think that hospital is a disgrace and the people that were there that nignt is a disgrace to the medical profession and Martin Luther King, for which the hospital is named after! Martin Luther King must be rolling over in his grave knowing that everything he fought for and died for is all in vain, according to this episodes. I am pretty sure there are a number of others that haven’t been treated fairly and treated with such negligence that’s it’s pathetic! Law makers need to wake up and take a stand and stop letting our people die like stray dogs in the street. Come on people we are talking about a human life. Now how is society going to explain to this lady’s kids about what and why this has happened to their mother! America this is PATHETIC ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC!!!!!!!
Hire me cause I’m qualified. Discrimination is already illegal. Pass me over and I WILL sue you if you hire less qualified because of my minority status. Affirmative action offices are still open in states where this law has already been passed. We need more economic affirmative action. Let’s help those that want to GET qualified. These loud mouth groups like BAMN are a shame in this day and time. Most of dont’ have a job cause we’re not willing to say “Welcome to QuikTrip. Can I help you?”
Hello Everyone,
Comment on both. The hospital know they were absolutely WRONG for not helping that poor lady if i were her family id shut them down with the lawsuits i filed against them. The police had to take her inside what kind of crap is that. I also live in Nebraska where they are trying to pass this law and trust me they are very racist here so it doesnt surpise me one bit. What a shame, but i know god has it all under control. You reap what you SOW!
I wish that the King family ask the hospital not to use their father name anymore. I have been in the hospital quite a few times and its scare me every time I go because many of the hospitals getting to be like third world hospital in this country. Believe me God seen these people who sit there and let that woman die. God gave ability to these people to save that women and they let her die like a dog, (oh they would have saved a dog).The people in this city should be outrages. If the people in this city, especially minorities would get up and boycott this hospital for better services, the people who run this hospital will really start looking into things because boycotting for better services will really make them look bad.
Mumia Abu- Jamal really needs to be free, it so obvious the prosecutors
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Abu-Jamal was real weak.He was a black panther they wanted him at any
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