Summary of attacks on Shelton by officers
This PTSD was initially caused by security officers at Advocate Christ Hospital and during the malpractice of Dr. Daniel Girzadas Jr., an ER physician. I had gone to Christ Hospital after waking up with new neurological deficits – numb hands, pain, etc. I had been bashed against a door causing trauma to my surgical site on my neck by court services officers at juvenile court where I had gone to testify on behalf of a guardian who was wrongfully accused of abuse. I didn’t leave the courtroom fast enough so the deputies grabbed my arms and forced me rapidly threw the courtroom doors. The door was knocked slightly askew off its hinges due to their brutality. I had surgery on my neck prior to this incident in order to break the bones and correct a congenital defect that was crushing the spinal cord and producing some neurological problems.
I called my neurologist, Dr. Itkin, who told me to go to the ER to make sure I did not have a broken neck. Dr. Girzadas Jr. made the erroneous conclusion that no doctor would be hurt by an officer. He thought officers never do wrong. He though I must therefore be delusional and needed mental health care. Dr. Girzadas Jr. was and likely still is incompetent in terms of mental health care. He wrongfully believed that a doctor can ASSUME a statement is false and delusional and as a result can FORCE a person to be admitted to a psychiatry unit and injected with psychotropic drugs against their will.
Dr. Girzadas Jr. ordered that I be injected with a potent anti-psychotic Haldol and sedative Ativan. Unfortunately, I have a respiratory problem which makes Haldol dangerous to give me as it can cause me to stop breathing. Also Girzadas committed malpractice in that he gave me an overdose of sedative. He had given me a large dose of a related sedative Valium a short time before to sedate me for an CT exam of my neck to rule out a broken neck. Fortunately the neck was not broken and there was just internal bruising and inflammation that was pinching nerves.
He called the “code grey team” which is a team of security officer who are supposed to put a person in 4-pt restraints and they did that so they could inject me with drugs over my protests.
The overdose and Haldol injected into me without my consent after I told Girzadas in a very fearful and anxious statement “you just killed me” because I really thought I would die, caused me to stop breathing. Girzadas pulled out the ambu bag to breath for me. He called respiratory therapy for assistance, gave me oxygen, started an IV and panicked saying – I don’t know what is happening or something like that. Even though I had stopped breathing and couldn’t move because the Haldol caused dystonia and laryngospasm, I could hear his voice on and off, although I know I blacked out briefly.
Eventually, my father came to the hospital – he was a professor of medicine at the U. of Chicago at the time and asked Girzadas what he was doing. Girzadas said I was delusional about being hurt by an officer. My dad told Girzadas I was hurt by an officer and to stop his malpractice. Then Girzadas let me go after I recovered from the fairly short episode of respiratory failure.
As a result of this malpractice and the officers tying me down while they injected me with drugs I knew could kill me, thinking I was being killed, and then blacking out and having great difficulty breathing – a very uncomfortable sensation which is called air hunger and where people think they are dying, I developed post-traumatic-stress disorder.
If I am restrained and cannot put my hands a foot in front of me or over my head to help breathing; if I am approached by loud, aggressive, uniformed officers; if anyone tries to forcibly give me medication I go into a flashback with tremendous feelings of fear and anxiety. I lose touch with reality relive this event and cower. I may flail out in an uncoordinated fashion trying to protect myself from officers who are trying to tie me down. This is a flashback and can last up toa 1/2 hour or so.
This PTSD has been repeatedly rekindled after the episodes of flashbacks and nightmares diminished by a number of episodes of attacks on me by officers and addition attacks due to malpractice of ER doctors who again repeatedly illegally injected me with drugs after ordering me placed in restraints so I would’t resist:
On several other occasion, during unlawful arrests and wrongful incarcerations:
I was attacked by Deputy Sheriff Rebecca Doran, falsely arrested for attacking her (found not guilty by Judge Rhodes in bench trial where he stated that I thoroughly impeached her testimony [lies]) and the evidence proves she committed perjury but State’s Attorney Devine and Alvarez have refused to prosecute her, as well as the FBI and U.S. Attorney have refused to prosecute her.
I was actually held down and kicked with boots – I have photos of the bruises (Correctional Officers Levy, Ruiz, and Connally);
handcuffed and shackled and held on the floor while a Chicago Police Officer pummeled me with his fists;
kicked by a detention aide at the 1st Dist Chicago Police lock-up to see if I was breathing after I passed out;
pummeled with the fists of 1st Dist Chicago Police detention aide Shell when she had released me then illegally rearrested me for taking my medication in the lock-up hallway just before trying to leave – I have photos – she then falsified her records and charged me with battery;
grabbed by my handcuffed hands in front of me which were pushed high in the air and then my body was slammed against a row or hard seats with hard armrests by Correctional Officer Johnson in the ER waiting area at the jail causing me to be temporarily paralyzed from the waist down, stunned, and in shock for at least an hour – he pulled me onto my back on the cold floor and I just laid there – I have photos of the bruises – again which occurred on my spine in areas where I had surgery or had a herniated disc;
choked by the throat in my wheelchair, while he said “I’m going to make a case so you don’t get out” and then violently flipped out of the wheelchair while the wheelchair was ripped out from under me by Sgt. Anthony Salemi at CCDOC – who later committed perjury and said I attacked him – I was wrongfully convicted of aggravated battery for “ramming him with my wheelchair” and “kicking him in the chest with my partially paralyzed right let” and sentenced to two years in prison – appeal is pending and proves he attacked me and I didn’t attack him;
grabbed by the arm by very muscular body builder Courtroom Services officer Robinson when I tried to get on the elevator after a court hearing on a civil case to go to the library and he told me he wanted me to leave the building – and I told him he had no authority to tell me to leave the building as I wasn’t causing any disturbance of any kind – I tried lightly to brush his hand off of my arm which was futile as he is so strong and powerful and I am so weak, while stating to stop assaulting me and to cease and desist interfering with my use of the building - so he arrested me and charged me with battery;
falsely charged with simple battery when Courtroom Services Officer Stanislavski stepped in front of my walker and pushed into it while I was representing myself before Judge Hyland at Bridgeview courthouse, after Ofc Norris grabbed my arm and inappropriately told me to shut up in an act of assault – then he said quietly so the court reporter and judge wouldn’t hear him: ”if you are going to charge her with assault, I am going to charge you with battery” – the court transcript proves there was no battery;
after arrest for the above “battery” while in the lock-up at Bridgeview courthouse I had a choking episode due to my asthma and couldn’t talk briefly. As it was subsiding the officers came in very aggressively and I went in a flashback, cowered in the corner refusing to answer questions, and tried to stay in touch with my environment unsuccessfully. All I could think to do is try to stay quiet and not provoke more attacks. The officers then called paramedics and told them I was nuts and the paramedics and officers violently picked me up and tied me down on a stretcher which induced more falshbacks, panic, fear, and terror. I tried to tell them what happened and they wouldn’t listen. At Palos Hospital, instead of letting me sit up and calm down and seeing if I could talk to them, the ER staff committed malpractice and injected me repeatedly with an overdose of anti-psychotic and sedative drugs – which caused such suppressed respirations that the ER staff had to monitor my breathing for many hours and give me oxygen. They refused to listen to my panicked statements about what happened. The drugs also put me to sleep for hours on end. After nearly 24 hrs of this repeated medical battery and abuse and medical monitoring due to side effects of the drug overdose, I was so drugged I didn’t know what was happening and I was transferred to the jail, where they released me on bail, but I was so confused and scared that, but at least knew to seek help, I called an ambulance which took me to Stroger Hospital, picking me up at the front of the jail. At Stroger I was so confused and waiting so long for many hours that I apparently walked out and wondered for many hours lost between the hospital and my attorneys office at 26th St near California. I don’t remember the route I took. Eventually I found my way to Albukerk’s office who recognized I was heavily drugged and confused and arranged for a taxi to take me home to sleep it off.
I am now again seeking counseling from Dr. Galatzer-Levy as I am suffering increasingly from the PTSD.
The above can only be described as repeated episodes of unlawful arrest, fabricated charges of battery, criminal conduct of officers with multiple incidents of harassment and assault and battery of a handicapped person, official misconduct, and interference with the exercise of my constitutional rights. The fact that law enforcement and judges are exacerbating these issues tells me that American Justice is a Myth and I will continually be abused by the justice system.
If anyone wants to help me fight this corruption and abuse contact me please at:
I could use contributions to my legal fund:
Make checks to Albukerk & Associates (Shelton legal fund) – NOTE NOT TAX DEDUCTIBLE
C/O Albukerk & Associates, 111 East Wacker Drive, Suite 555, Chicago, IL 60601
I could also use attorneys willing to provide pro bono or contingency services to pursue my civil torts regarding these civil rights violations against me.
