Followed by Bam & suing city
A Long Island woman recalled through tears Tuesday the bizarre moment when she told a doctor in the Harlem Hospital psych ward that then-President Barack Obama followed her on Twitter — only to be met with a skeptical stare.
Kamilah (Kam) Brock took the stand in her case against the city for the “One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest” ordeal in September 2014. Cops determined she was emotionally disturbed while she tried to retrieve her impounded BMW. In the psych ward her truthful statements were misinterpreted as delusions, she testified.
“I told (the doctor) Barack Obama follows me on Twitter,” she said.
“She was looking at me like I'm crazy.”
Brock (photo) is among over 600,000 people Obama follows on Twitter.
Doctors dosed her with powerful anti-psychotics during the eight-day stay. The experience profoundly changed her.
“I don't have peace. I think about it all the time. I can't get my days back. I will have to live with it for the rest of my life. And it hurts, it hurts, it hurts so much,” she said, sobbing.
A psychiatrist called by Brock's attorney testified that Harlem Hospital officials jumped to the conclusion that she was mentally ill.
“She said that President Obama followed her on Twitter. Even if it were delusional, I would not jump to the conclusion that's dangerous,” psychiatrist Roy Lubit said.
Lubit said he even factchecked the strange claim that is central to her case.
“She opened her Twitter and… he was following her. It wasn't a delusion,” Lubit said.