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Man was beaten by hospital security guards as he awaited transplant
A frail black man awaiting a kidney transplant was detained and beaten by hospital security guards who mistook him for a car thief, it's claimed.
A frail black man awaiting a kidney transplant was detained and beaten by hospital security guards who mistook him for a car thief, it's claimed.
Hughie Robinson, 52, had just been sent home from Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St Louis, Missouri, in April 2021 for a planned transplant that failed to happen, when he was allegedly attacked by security guards.
He left his wallet and was contacted by staff who asked him to return and park his Buick in a different garage to the one he usually used, according to a lawsuit filed by his daughter Chelsea Robinson.
Robinson did so, but when it was time to go home, forgot where he'd parked, and wandered back to the other garage he'd previously parked in, the suit claims.
Robinson - who died earlier this year, before he could receive the transplant - then went to the front desk to ask for help.
He was escorted around the parking lot by a security guard - but they still could not find his car.
Eventually, the St Louis Post-Dispatch reports, he caught the attention of some of the security guards at the hospital, which is part of Washington University
Those guards suspected he was casing the garage and looking to steal cars, Chelsea's suit claims.
They never asked him for his parking garage ticket and did not seem to notice he was wearing a patient bracelet, the Post-Dispatch reports, before they attacked him.
