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Lisa Edwards family has hired Devon Jacob, a high-profile civil rights attorney well versed in filing lawsuits involving in-custody deaths.

Tennessee officers' conduct probed in woman's death

A former Rhode Island woman, disabled from a stroke, was "mocked and bullied" by police in Tennessee before she died, her family says.

Four Tennessee police officers are being investigated for their treatment of a woman whose pleas for help they repeatedly ignored as they accused her of faking illness after she was discharged from a hospital. The woman was pronounced dead a day later.

Throughout her interaction with police, Lisa Edwards repeatedly told officers that she couldnt breathe and needed help sitting up. She died a day later.

Lisa Edwards, 60, was arrested for trespassing at a hospital that had just discharged her after a stroke. She had another stroke as police jailed her.

(AP) -- Four Tennessee police officers are being investigated for their treatment of a woman whose pleas for help they repeatedly ignored.

Lisa Edwards, 60, was arrested Feb. 5 outside Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center and later died. Her family wants answers.

Four Tennessee police officers are being investigated for their treatment of a woman whose pleas for help they repeatedly ignored as they accused her of faking illness after she was discharged from a hospital

The Knox County District Attorney General's Office said it will not be filing charges against the officers who arrested a 60-year-old woman who later died.