The Cleveland branch of the NAACP is calling on the Cleveland Clinic to pause and reverse its police department’s policy of detaining people accompanying gunshot wound victims at the emergency room.
It’s also asking the hospital to establish safeguards to protect the civil rights of people seeking care or assisting others in emergency situations.
In an article published last week, Signal Cleveland reported on the policy and shared the story of one man detained after driving his friend, who had been shot, to the emergency room on the Clinic’s main campus. When asked what the Cleveland Clinic police officers’ reasonable suspicion was in the man’s case, a spokesperson for the hospital wrote that “he was dropping off a gunshot victim at the emergency department.”
The Cleveland NAACP called the police department’s policy of detention “ethically indefensible” and dangerous…