Documents: Officer tried put woman in car after collapse at Liberty-Calhoun Hospital
A police officer tried to put a woman into a patrol car after she collapsed at a hospital, believing that she was “making herself dead weight” to avoid going to jail, according to a police report released Monday. The woman, 57-year-old Barbara Dawson, died about 90 minutes later at Liberty-Calhoun Hospital. The state law enforcement department and the state’s health care agency have launched investigations. Dawson was initially brought to the hospital on Dec. 21 by ambulance after complaining of…