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Emergency department patient charged with hate crime
Healthcare Security Weekly, January 7, 2008
Police charged a St. George, VT man with committing a hate crime after he was rushed to the hospital following an alleged drunk-driving crash, reported WCAV-TV.
The 28-year-old man crashed into a tractor trailer truck in Charlotte on December 21. He was taken to Fletcher Allen Hospital, where police say he started fighting medical workers who were trying to help him. Emergency department workers, security officers, and a state trooper had to subdue the man and put him in restraints, the station reported.
The man then allegedly began a verbal assault that included racial remarks on an African-American emergency department worker. The patient is charged with drunk driving, his third offense, driving with a lifetime-suspended license, disorderly conduct, and a hate crime, the TV station reported.
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