Georgia lawmaker found allegedly passed out drunk in street is suing county for firing her – IOTW Report

Georgia lawmaker found allegedly passed out drunk in street is suing county for firing her

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A former Georgia lawmaker is planning to sue Clayton County for ousting her from her position after she was filmed screaming at medics who allegedly found her passed out drunk outside of a sports bar.

Felicia Franklin announced that she is filing the suit for wrongful termination after county officials voted unanimously to dismiss her from her position as Board of Commissioners vice chair over the September altercation, which was recorded on police-worn body cameras, according to the Daily Mail.

Franklin — who is also running for the county chairman position — claims in the lawsuit that the “traumatic and unfortunate incident” outside the 404 Sports Bar and Grill in Morrow came after she was “drugged with a ‘date rape’ drug.”

The suit claims her “evening took a turn for the worse” and she was found “crying and clearly in a vulnerable position.” more

24 Comments on Georgia lawmaker found allegedly passed out drunk in street is suing county for firing her

  1. Date Rape??? LOL, by what? I’m sure SNS will fill us in on every aspect of this but I would think a tox screen would be SOP. And a date rape drug would be something they’d be looking for. She’ll probably win. For obvious reasons. How sad.

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  2. I have an old Beetle. That lump of shit wouldn’t fit in the back with the back seat folded down. And if it DID fit it would short out the battery on the springs and make the tires rub the fenders.

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  3. There by but the Grace of God …

    Regardless of how things turn out we should pity this woman.
    She is a victim of her own character and can’t see it.

    mortem tyrannis
    izlamo delenda est …

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  4. Date Rape? Ugly as 10 miles of bad road and she thinks we’ll believe she needed to be drugged to give it up? I bet she had pirates breath from all the alcohol. I think I saw this wilda beasts on a National Geographic episode.

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  5. I guess they hand out commissioner jobs to anyone. This one was definitely affirmative action. What! Wait! Her position was a one whom the public voted in. So, I only blame her for being a drunk, and the ones who voted for her the idiots.

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  6. My knowledge of this sort of thing is time and region locked and may not be applicable to The Current Year, but the human condition rarely changes and so the responses to it don’t need to change too much either.

    There’s a few different things here. They find her rather incoherent on the sidewalk and she had apparently been incontinent, unless she coincidentally happened to sit in a puddle or spilled her drink. This makes things
    immediately less pleasant for obvious reasons, but also goes to issues of consent. Under normal circumstances it is not legal to treat someone who does not want to be treated, BUT in my time and place that was
    modified by three circumstances; unconsciousness, in which case (absent a DNR) local law held there was an implied consent; loss of orientation, where a person is not sufficiently in possession of their faculties to make
    decisions for themselves and their health due to some mental incapacity that is subject to a standard verbal test to determine, in which case consent again becomes implied; and third, if a PO (LEO in modern parlance) determines
    that the person is an immediate risk to themselves and others and “red tags” them as a potentially violent mental.

    I think I see the last two here. The presence of a PO in the squad suggest #3, but sometimes there are squads that are manned by police officers which makes everything more confusing, but in any case there is sufficient
    implication here that this woman isn’t capable of making judgements for herself or taking care of herself so she wins a free ride to a local hospital, willing or no.

    It’s a little odd that the threat of arrest doesn’t work. In my experience unless someone is COMPLETELY oblivious, given a “jail or hospital” option they will usually take the latter and become rather compliant so as not to
    risk the less palatable option. But she’s pretty oblivious and probably feeling her privilege, so that doesn’t work.

    Words cannot express how fun it is to strap someone to a cot. We had these fancy schmancy leather restraints for just such an occasion, but they were somewhat difficult to apply and some folks seem to be able to flex out of them,
    so I usually went with a triangular bandage, the duct tape of the life squad in its versatility. This is a PATIENT, not a PRISONER despite the LEO presence, and so cuffing her to the cot is not only not appropriate, but also they
    would cause MORE damage you have to deal with.

    And God bless female medics. I liked to run with gals for a lot of reasons (not THAT one, pervs), but mostly because no matter what modern Soience! says, women are innately better healers and nurturers, and tend to think of things
    men don’t that are mercies to patients – like where she pulls the woman’s skirt down even though it’s probably pee soaked. It’s a small gesture and not one that’s going to affect patient outcome (ain’t NO one looking at THAT in these circumstances),
    but it’s just a nice bit of humanity that ALSO looks good in court, in the camera-festooned modern world.

    But you don’t know WHY you’re in this fight. Circumstances (incoherent female at a bar being combative) would suggest alcohol, but is that ALL there is to it? Is that even WHAT their is to it? You don’t know, COULD be diabetes
    COULD be some other drug, COULD be a hundred other things with AND without alcohol…and being combative can be interesting too, as it could indicate a head injury (did she FALL on the sidewalk? YOU don’t know), or even more serious things.
    One of the MOST combative patients I EVER had was as a hatchling doing my hospital time and a squad brought in a REAL combative guy (who had ALSO pissed himself, as I found when I did the highly trained medical service of throwing myself across his legs so he wouldn’t kick the doctor) who was biting everything because his arms were strapped down, and no one knew what HIS deal was. Turned out he was enjoying an myocardial infarction that was foam-at-the-mouth painful
    and it later killed him. He had no tox or nothing, just extreme pain followed by death, and believe ME I remember that lesson well (also, I didn’t have a clean shirt with me. Another lesson learned).

    You’re going to have to think of airway management, she’s probably going to puke. You’re not going to spend a pantload of time on scene futzing with monitors and tests and such, not when you’re getting kicked to death, so
    you may get a mostly meaningless blood pressure and – if you’re lucky and she calms down enough – a blood glucose, but no, you’re not going to test for fancy drugs, it’s an ambulance not a hospital so you’re going
    to get her to MD and broach the possibility, although that’s redundant at this point because SHE’S broaching it at the top of her lungs. This is load and go, get to a building and do all the stuff there.

    This also takes you away from the “oooh, aahhh” squad that forms at any emergency to laugh at the victim, which may also reduce the performative drama as well as remove her from someone who might actually want to do her harm.
    I had gang members follow my squad once to continue their discussion at the hospital, and would have if we didn’t have cops peel them off enroute.

    So what you saw here is, kind of, a Friday. This is just a thumbnail, everything is situational and observational and collaborative with your partner and others, and situation are unique, but this is the basics. The players vary and the intoxicants vary, but people do ugly crap like this sometimes, and all you can do is make sure they aren’t dying, then truck them somewhere to dry out and let other people worry about the
    politics and laws and stuff. Not much else you can do for some people.

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