New Video Shows Woman Agitated in Airport
Surveillance tape captures woman's arrest before her death in police custody.
Oct. 5, 2007 — -- Newly released surveillance tapes of a woman who mysteriously died while in police custody offer some clues about what may have happened to her.
Carol Anne Gotbaum, a mother of three, was heading to an alcohol rehabilitation treatment in Tuscon, Ariz., when, according to authorities, she became hysterical after missing her flight in Phoenix.
The tape, released by the Phoenix Police Department, Thursday, shows a woman police say is Gotbaum, standing by herself in the Sky Harbor International Airport, apparently agitated.
The video does not have any audio, but based upon witness statements the woman was screaming at the top of her lungs, "I'm not a terrorist! I'm not a terrorist!"
Within minutes she is approached by Transportation Safety Administration officers who attempt to calm her down, to no avail. The Phoenix police were then called in.
A police officer narrating the tape says, "She's continuing to yell at the top of her lungs and finally, with no alternative, officers attempt to affect an arrest."
In the tape, the woman thought to be Gotbaum appears to fall to the ground. Police handcuff her and lead her away.
Gotbaum's husband, Noah Gotbaum, said he made several calls to the Phoenix police and the airport trying to warn them that his wife was severely depressed and on her way to rehab.
He wanted to make it clear that she wasn't just a police problem, but was in fact in the middle of a medical emergency. Police in direct contact with Gotbaum say they never got the message.
While the tape seems to show that the woman thought to be Gotbaum was without a doubt creating a disturbance, it is still unknown what happened to her after she was removed from the airport.
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