Sunday, 30 September 2007
Carol Ann Gotbaum died, the daughter-in-law of the Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum
Carol Anne Gotbaum, the daughter-in-law of the Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum(watch video above), died on Friday.
Carol Anne Gotbaum, as Phoenix police said, may have strangled herself while struggling to free herself from the cuffs.
She was arrested at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport after getting into a confrontation with gate crews who refused to allow her to board a plane to Tucson, said Sgt. Andy Hill, a Phoenix police spokesman.
"We are extraordinarily upset," Betsy Gotbaum told the Daily News last night.
"We are very concerned about what happened at Phoenix airport. It's under investigation and we are following that investigation," she said. "She has three very small children. It's a very delicate matter."
A man who answered the phone at Carol Anne Gotbaum's W. 95th St. townhouse apartment last night said, "This is a private family matter. Let us mourn in peace."
Carol Anne Gotbaum, originally from South Africa, married Betsy Gotbaum's stepson Noah in a ceremony at Central Park's Loeb Boathouse in 1995. It was her second marriage; the first ended in divorce.
A US Airways spokesman said the plane was already preparing to depart when Carol Anne Gotbaum, who was traveling alone, arrived at the gate.
She was rebooked on the next flight, but "she became extremely irate, apparently running up and down the gate area," airline spokesman Derek Hanna said yesterday.
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It's amazing how many people blame others and don't admit that every one of us has to have personal responsibility for our own choices and actions. This woman could very well have choked herself somehow (other news stories state she may have been trying to moved her cuffed hands from behind her back to the front of her - stupid move as it easily could strangle one)...yet some people automatically jump to the conclusion that the police did something wrong. I wonder if these same people, after seeing how irate this woman got, l would feel the same way if the police had let that woman board the flight after all - and they were on he same flight. It's a tragedy that her family lost a loved one, but just maybe this wouldn't have happened if 1) she had been on time for her flight, 2) if she hadn't gotten so upset she caused a disturbance that caused her to get detained, and 3) if she'd have calmed down once she was in the holding cell.
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