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[-] shiroininja@lemmy.world 361 points 3 months ago

Threatening the hospital that was denying my father care, leaving him to die, was the only way I got into the literal board room to reason with them. I got them to resume treatment after they dicked around for a month and he refused to leave because he was going to die if he left.

He still died because he was so sick at that point that they couldn’t do the procedure he needed when he first arrived.

So I threatened them in 2010, and I’d fucking do it again now for my child. We are supposed to stand up for our loved ones.

[-] obre@lemmy.world 134 points 3 months ago

It's disgusting. There needs to be legal recognition of all that is at stake for patients and their families. The denial of necessary care is structural violence and should be treated as such by everyone.

[-] shiroininja@lemmy.world 54 points 3 months ago

Agreed. It’s straight up murder

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[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 45 points 3 months ago

got them to resume treatment after they dicked around for a month and he refused to leave because he was going to die if he left.

I had to play this card once, too. I was in the cardiac unit for 28 days, and they were going to send me home because they couldn’t figure out what was wrong, and the insurance decided I wasn’t worth the expense anymore.

I refused to leave until they gave me a diagnosis, because i would have just died otherwise.

Pretty sure the healthcare system still wants that.

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[-] FelixCress@lemmy.world 262 points 3 months ago

So, no free speech in the US after all?

[-] QuincyPeck@lemmy.world 177 points 3 months ago

Depends on how much money you have.

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[-] tiefling 82 points 3 months ago

🌎👩🏼‍🚀🔫👩🏼‍🚀

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[-] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 188 points 3 months ago

I imagine the "Delay, Deny, Depose" didn't get her in trouble nearly as much as the "You people are next" part. Yeah, that's a bit hostile there.

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 275 points 3 months ago

Please, marginalized people get more explicitly threatening crap said to them all the time and people rarely get arrested or charged for that. She's being charged because the system wants to make an example out of her. The judge basically said so himself at the bail hearing,

"I do find that the bond of $100,000 is appropriate considering the status of our country at this point," the judge said.

[-] ArtieShaw@fedia.io 62 points 3 months ago

Ouch. "This place is a shit show," the judge said. (Not really, just fixed it for him).

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[-] zaph@sh.itjust.works 115 points 3 months ago

I've met victims of domestic violence who were threatened much worse than "you guys are next" so I'm not buying this as anything other than the system trying to use her as an example.

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[-] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 49 points 3 months ago

There's no direct threat there more than saying the boogeyman will get you. People threaten marginalized communities like this on TV, radio and social media every day with no impunity because it's just vague enough not to count because stochastic terrorism is totally cool for SOME people.

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[-] Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world 164 points 3 months ago

Remember this the next time the cops tell someone they can’t do anything about a stalker or angry ex threatening to kill them until they actually act. They can do something. They choose not to.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 88 points 3 months ago

Judges too! He set her bail at 100K. Rapists get less than that.

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[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 154 points 3 months ago

She said "Delay, Deny, Depose. You people are next," according to the article.

[-] joker125@lemmy.world 112 points 3 months ago

Funny part is insurance companies hear worse than this all day long however this is their trigger.

L O L

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[-] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 44 points 3 months ago

I hope she's right

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[-] CgH10N4Co2@lemmy.cafe 130 points 3 months ago

Proof that the justice system only serves the wealthy.

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[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 115 points 3 months ago
[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 51 points 3 months ago

Let's make them more..... concerned.

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[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 96 points 3 months ago

From the article’s source article:

“She’s been in this world long enough that she certainly should know better that you can’t make threats like that in the current environment that we live in and think that we’re not going to follow up and put you in jail,” said Lakeland Police Chief Sam Taylor.

I thought we had a legal definition of a real threat, and this isn’t it.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 70 points 3 months ago

This man on the other hand was released after his EIGHTH stalking arrest in three years.

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/plano-man-8th-arrest-stalking-harassing-smu-students/

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[-] Erasmus@lemmy.world 86 points 3 months ago

After being charged with threats to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism, a judge set Boston's bond at $100,000.

"I do find that the bond of $100,000 is appropriate considering the status of our country at this point," the judge said.

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 90 points 3 months ago

Thank goodness for that freedom of speech we have ...

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[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 80 points 3 months ago

Attorneys have said the insurance industry uses a "delay, deny, defend" tactic to withhold health care services.

Jailed for using words to describe what insurance companies do?

Judge is trying to fill their year-end quota.

[-] dandelion 37 points 3 months ago

"Delay, Deny, Depose. You people are next," she allegedly said near the end of the call.

Let's be real, the "You people are next" is probably the reason for jail.

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[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 72 points 3 months ago

Looks like a lot of us are going to jail over the next 4 years.

[-] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 41 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Well yeah, those camps won't fill themselves!

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[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 69 points 3 months ago

Freedom of speech, as long as it's completely meaningless.

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[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 65 points 3 months ago

Nothing like jail time to radicalized someone more. Judge is playing 5d cheese by providing motivation.

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[-] ConHoliousDonFrankle@lemmy.world 63 points 3 months ago

Lol, catch phrase or actual corporate practice? Because quoting a company memo to said company is apparently a threat.

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[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 61 points 3 months ago

I'm sure the "Free Speech" people are up in arms about this, right?

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[-] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 56 points 3 months ago

"You people are next" does seem pretty threat-ish, however:

After being charged with threats to conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism, a judge set Boston's bond at $100,000.

That is completely out of touch with what happened. "You people are next" not an act of terrorism.

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[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 50 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Delay, deny, and depose the FBI. The FBI isn't acting like this during a Trump presidency, this is the most lenient it gets at, during a democratic presidency. With a Trump presidency, Americans should familiarize themselves with current Russian society to know what they should expect for its future. Fuck your messed up police state, Americans, and fuck a constitution that only seems to be propaganda bullshit that is too much for the FBI to live by.

[-] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 48 points 3 months ago

This will definitely ease tensions among the masses and rouse support for the Healthcare execs lmao

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[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago

Her expression says I can't believe this shit. I can't, either.

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[-] pixelscript@lemm.ee 43 points 3 months ago

Regardless whether you support her general conduct, I think we can all rally around one tenet here:

Don't harass a shitty company's T1 support out of priciples against the company in general.They're in no better position to effect change in the system than you are. They exist only to be slightly more competent phone robots, turning your whiney noise into itemized actions, and filter those actions down to a restricted subset of system commands the company permits them to do.

If anything, they're on our level of the totem pole. Any outrage directed at them for actions of their broader company are a gross misdirection and wholly counterproductive.

I don't know who this lady was speaking to on the phone. But if it was some minimum wage phone bank slave who is just the ablative frontline of the customer support hotline, I don't support her threat in that context.

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[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 42 points 3 months ago

I’ve heard worse death threats in Fortnite.

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[-] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago

They think they're making an example. That this will have a chilling effect.

They're wrong. All this is going to do is radicalize even more people. As it should.

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago

Remember folks, the company reps you interact with are generally not the ones making the rules they are paid to abide by. They're working for a living, just like us.

With that, calling this an "act of terrorism" is an incredulous overreaction that just goes to show how badly they're shitting their pants right now.

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[-] SuperCub@sh.itjust.works 38 points 3 months ago

Per the GoFundMe, she was released and charges dropped:

Hi everyone, it looks like the county released Briana with no charges, so I stopped the campaign. See here: https://www.polksheriff.org/inmate-profile/2435323 I am looking how to run a gazillion of reimbursements on this platform.

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[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 38 points 3 months ago

May the first amendment suit she files after this gain her the money she needs for her healthcare. And may whatever insurance company this is be dissolved.

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