A woman waiting for a CT scan to diagnose a potential head injury was punched in the head, grabbed by the throat and slammed onto a hospital bed by Alameda County Sheriff’s deputies, who wanted to take her to jail without providing her proper medical screening, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. "She was brutalized and she needed help," said Adante Pointer of the law firm, Lawyers for the People in Oakland.
He questioned why the deputies didn't deescalate the situation instead of "choke-slamming" Malia Ashad, a mother of two, in a hospital bed. Ashad did not speak at a news conference, but her mother, Ramona Bishop, did."My daughter is a fighter," Bishop said. As the lawsuit spelled out, Ashad was taken to Kaiser San Leandro Medical Center on Aug. 9, 2022, for evaluation of head injuries inflicted upon her at the Alameda County Superior Court in Hayward, where she was dealing with what her lawyers described as a "private family matter