Woman dies at airport jail

This is something that could have just as easily happened to you or a member of your family - not just at an airport holding cell, but in any other situation where there's no oversight over the authorities.

Last week, a 45-year-old woman was arrested at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport after a conflict with the airline. (As is usual in the corporate world, the airline blew the woman's behavior out of proportion.) After police took the woman to a holding cell, she was found dead.

But you're not gonna believe this: Authorities are trying to shift blame onto the woman, saying she may have choked herself trying to break out of the handcuffs.

I don't buy that. How can a person choke themselves while trying to break out of handcuffs? And if they could, why didn't the cops stop the woman from trying to get out of the cuffs?

Like I said, the way things are today, you could be next - and that's why I'm writing about this incident.

(Source: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/09/29/national/a175650D03.DTL&tsp=1;
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070930/ap_on_re_us/airport_death)