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Episode: Woman with brain bleed mistakenly arrested by state trooper for drunken driving, lawsuit says
Description: A Washington State Patrol trooper arrested a woman on suspicion of drunken driving when she was actually experiencing a life-threatening brain bleed and booked her into jail where officials mocked her instead of getting her medical attention, according to a civil rights lawsuit.
The federal lawsuit filed February 1 in Tacoma says Nicole McClure was booked into Thurston County Jail on March 21, 2022, where she lay on a cell floor for a day before receiving medical attention, The Seattle Times reported.
βNicole suffers from severe traumatic brain injury and remains unable to care for herself or engage with life in meaningful ways,β McCl...