OMFG: Tue, Oct 29 2013, 09:41 PM CDT MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) Mobile Infirmary and a security guard have been named in a second lawsuit. Monday, we told you how a lawsuit filed in Mobile claims there is surveillance video showing the guard and an off-duty Mobile Police officer physically removing a patient from the property and dumping him on the sidewalk. That patient later died. Now, Local 15 News has obtained exclusive video of the guard in a second incident at the hospital. In the video, you see security guard Shawn Poff repeatedly point his finger at a vistor, who came to see her dying father this past January. She starts to leave with her husband, but seconds later shes pushed up against the desk, cuffed and charged with trespassing. Those charges were later dropped, but now shes filed a civil suit against the hospital and Poff, who no longer works there. Theres something going on at Mobile Infirmary where they encourage these guards to act like this, said attorney Andy Citrin. Poff is the same guard named in a wrongful death case Citrin filed last week. Citrin said LeJuan Johnson came to Mobile Infirmary in March barely conscious and dehydrated. Four hours later, he said, a passerby found him outside, on the ground, suffering from hypothermia. Days later he was dead. Citrin said the ordeal is captured by hospital surveillance video that a court order prevents him from sharing with us. Once you see what happens to this young man, it will never leave your mind, said Citrin. Citrin said the security camera captured off-duty Mobile Police Sgt. Jerry Ripple and Poff wheeling Johnson out of the hospital and off the property down the street. He said it then shows them dumping Johnson on the sidewalk. You can actually see these two officers dumping him out like you would a wheel barrel full of trash, and theyre dealing with a human being who is helpless and who came to the hospital for help. It staggers the mind, said Citrin. Why do you think the hospital would allow this to happen? asked Local 15s Andrea Ramey. We believe there is a profit motive involved. That this was not a profitable patient to treat, replied Citrin.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:27:26 +0000
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