On Oct 2, 12:04 pm, "TMOliver" wrote:
I note that the poor deluded and apparently deranged woman who died -
strangled in an attempt to get out of the irons - while cuffed and shackled
at Sky Harbor, the Phoenix Airport, was the daughter of a retired SA Navy
CDR. The story has played mightily here in the US, drawing response from
the two predictable positions, the usual tearful hand-wringers blaming the
cops or the TSA (a bit off, since the TSA apparently weren't ever involved),
and the "just desserts" crowd, which in this case seem likely to be correct
in their view.

Throwing a fit, especially over being denied boarding because the door was
closed - a routine and to be expected inconvnience these days - is bad
enough, but throwing one which requires the gendarmes to put you in
restraints (implying an ongoing failure of rationality) seems evidence of
deper problems....

Apparently, she was on her way to an alcohol rehab center in Tucson. Sad,
since were she not so purposeful in her intent to beat booze, she could have
simply gone in the bar, had a few belts, and simply felt depressed, not
antagonistic.

TMO

Her inlaws were also very important people. It is like the old
mysteries where the lord is killed in a closed room. You wait for the
autopsy, and assume the police handled it well and if they didn't,
there are no surveillance cameras or eye witnesses. The family lawyer
was in the Keating case. Deep draft.

"Police spokesman Sgt. Andy Hill said officers placed Gotbaum in a
room without a surveillance camera. After about five to 10 minutes,
officers no longer could hear her voice and went to check. Gotbaum was
found unconscious with her hands "pressed against her neck area," Hill
said.

In a statement released Monday, Hill said Gotbaum had been shackled to
a bench as well as being handcuffed. The shackle's chain ran from an
eyehook and the other was connected to the chain on Gotbaum's
handcuffs."