Sudbury police 'unlawfully' detained Indigenous academic after she faced hospital racism, lawsuit alleges.
Tasha Beeds, of nêhiyaw, Scottish-Métis, and Bajan ancestry, said Sudbury police detained her under the provincial Mental Health Act and forced her to return to the Health Sciences North hospital, the lawsuit against the hospital and the police alleged.
Beeds lectures at the University of Saskatchewan and University of Windsor. She is also the inaugural Indigenous scholar at the Anako Indigenous Research Institute at Carleton University. The hospital said in an emailed statement that it could not specifically comment "on this matter," but it takes "complaints related to discrimination very seriously."In its statement of defence, Health Sciences North said a nurse "tended" to Beeds while she was on the floor, but she "began swearing at the nurse and taking issue with the length of time it took to see her." The document alleged that Beeds left the hospital against the advice of the nurse.
In September 2020, Joyce Echaquan, an Atikamekw woman, filmed health-care staff hurling racist remarks as she lay dying on a hospital bed in Joliette, Que. A Quebec coroner found that systemic racism played a role in her death. An assistant professor at the time with the University of Sudbury, Beeds feared she caught COVID-19 at a recent conference she had attended with about 2,000 people.While waiting in the wheelchair she called for a nurse to help, because she needed to lie down. "The nurse ignored [Beeds]," the lawsuit said.
A security guard then came by and told her she had to leave, because she was "causing a scene," the lawsuit alleged.
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