Woman Held 8 Days in NYC Psych Ward For Saying Obama Followed Her on Twitter - Even Though He Does
A Long Island woman was detained in a Harlem mental institution for eight days for claiming, among other things, that President Barack Obama followed her on Twitter — even though he does.
According to the Daily News‘ Stephen Rex Brown, last year Kam Brock attempted to retrieve a car that the New York Police Department had seized. When she walked into the NYPD’s Police Service Area 6 stationhouse, she was, by her own admission, “emotional,” but insisted she was by no means “emotionally disturbed.”
The NYPD disagreed. Officers handcuffed her and sent her to the hospital.
According to the lawsuit Brock is filing, the “next thing you know, the police held onto me, the doctor stuck me with a needle and I was knocked out. I woke up to them taking off my underwear and then went out again. I woke up the next day in a hospital robe.”
She said she was heavily sedated by hospital employees, and she told the Daily News that she only mentioned to doctors that the President follows her on Twitter to show them “the type of person I am. I’m a good person, a positive person. Obama follows positive people.”
The lawsuit alleges the doctor made her discharge contingent upon her denying that Obama follows her on the social media site. According to her “master treatment plan,” one of the objectives that would trigger her release was that she “state that Obama is not following her on Twitter.”
She said no one at the hospital checked her Twitter account for objective proof of the truth of her claim.
In her lawsuit, Brock is attempting to recoup the $13,637.10 bill she received for her involuntary incarceration, as well as an unspecified amount of additional damages.
Watch a report on her unusual predicament via the Daily News:
