Saturday, October 06, 2007
You break it, it's yours
"You break it, it's yours", or as the lawyers say, "Strict liability".
Carol Gotbaum died in police custody at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.
Phoenix Police spokesman Sgt. Andy Hill defended his department saying in part: "Officers did everything they could to save the life of a citizen."
I suppose leaving her alone, and not putting her in the handcuffs that seem to be the cause of her death, or as the doctors say, "Primum non nocere" never occurred to them.

