A Long Island woman claims she was drugged and locked in a hospital psych ward for 8 days because a doctor didn't believe Barack Obama followed her on Twitter.
Kamilah Brock's lawyer told the New York Daily News that the horrible ordeal started last September when the NYPD pulled her over in Harlem and seized her BMW after accusing her of being high on marijuana. Her lawyer says no weed was found in the car.
Brock, 32, says that when she went to the station to get her vehicle back the next day, she was forcibly sedated and sent to Harlem Hospital as an "emotionally disturbed" person. . . . She says she told doctors that she works at a bank and that the president follows her on Twitter—both of which are true, and neither of which the doctors believed. According to her lawsuit, they thought she was delusion[al] and bipolar, so they sedated her and kept her in treatment for more than a week.
OK, so it wasn't really Barack Obama who follows her on Twitter, but @BarackObama, an account run by OFA to which the president occasionally contributes. Even so, her story could have been corroborated in a second if anyone had even glanced at her
Twitter account, which is public. Her followers are visible to anyone.
The doctors also didn't bother to verify her employment at the bank where she told them she worked. Turns out she not only works there but had been cited at a bank where she worked previously as one of its most productive personal bankers.
Nevertheless, her treatment plan would not allow her to be released until she admitted that Obama did not follow her on Twitter and that she was actually unemployed.
To add insult to injury, when she was finally released, they socked her with a $13,000 bill for hospital services.
Oh, yeah, she's suing the city of New York, all right.