VIDEO: Nigerian Physician Brutally Assaulted In Missouri Hospital

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The video above shows how a Nigerian resident physician, Alade Olademiji, was brutally attacked and evicted from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.

Olademiji, who had worked in the hospital for three years as part of his psychiatry residency program for the Washington University School of Medicine, was beaten and arrested by St Louis police on charges of trespassing and threatening to harm hospital staff.

But Doctor Olademiji denies the allegations saying that the hospital has been discriminating against him and have been pressurizing him to quit since September of last year to which he filed a lawsuit against the hospital.

The incident, which happened early last month, occurred when Olademiji reportedly, turned up on the hospital premises to attend a retirement party. In an affidavit sworn by a social worker, trouble started when he was restrained by hospital security who claimed that his visit was unauthorized. The affidavit further stated that Olademiji refused to leave; an effort to physically remove him from the property resulted in the scuffle you see in the video.

However Olademiji refutes the hospitals allegations saying that he had every right to be at the hospital as he was still a full-time employee with some time left in his residency.
Olademiji is also a captain in the United Sates Reserve Army

 

Correction: An earlier version of this story was published under the headline,VIDEO: Nigerian Physician Brutally  Assualted In Virginia Hospital. That has since been changed. We apologize for the error.

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Alarm Monitoring

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Hmmm, barbaric Americans.

Hmmm, barbaric Americans. What was that about? couldnt they have resolved any problems in a more civilised way by talking to and persuading this man to leave the hosp premises? All this show of force to eject a lone man from the hosp. Very animalistic- one of the reasons i have refused to visit the US- they believe too much in the use of force to achieve abjectives. I would rather stay in the UK where the people are far more civilised and are not quick to deploy force.

Its just rubbish. And you guys that give this a tribal colouration, you are just as bad- you have refused to move with the times and be civilised. What has tribe got to do with it?

WAKE UP

Mr Tony Smart,Its unfortunate that you are not anywhere close to your name.You are surely not a smart person.At this age and time you are still tribal&racial inclined.you never even took time to analyze d situation or circumstances surrounding oladimeji's ordeal rather you are more concerned about the lapses of a particular race.A beg WAKE UP!be focused on the issue at hand.if you keep on this way it would surely have a bad and negative effect on our upcoming generation of youth.

Let's stop all forms of ethnic discrimination and learn to speak as one when the need arises.An American in the same situation as oladimeji would surely have enjoyed an enormous support from his people and Government.Pls change your mindset it would do you and our country alot of good.

I beg your pardon Sir!

Love thine neigbour as thy self,from your utterances it appears that you are the tribalist and bigoted fella,don't use a sample from a subset to generalise as the population,every bad thing seen amongst any tribe is equally obtainable in other tribes,set your self free the shackles of hate,tribalism,segregetion,rise above that my brother/sister,you know very well that yours are wrong thats why you remained anonymous,God bless you and allah guide your utterances, from me,an igbo friend and brother.

Owambe lesson

Yoruba people and party!!! He thinks that is owambe.If your enemies are around you, you need to watch your back.With his situation in the hospital he would have made a wise decision not to attend the owambe.I hope he learned his lesson this time. His goal should be to finish his residency and write his board insted of looking for parties to attend.

Yoruba - the albatross of the black race

Nigeria had so many opportunities to become the home for all black people in all parts of the world. The Yoruba ruined Nigeria with their culture of anarchy, thuggery, and vooddoo.

Yoruba collected more funds from Nigeria oil wealth in 8 years than the amount collected in the previous years of Nigeria existence by all their other administrations put together. But Yoruba produced more deaths, more decay, more destruction, more divisions, more treason, and more backwardness in Nigeria than all the previous governments put together. You can run your stinky Yoruba mouths, but you can never hide from your records. You are the devils killing the black race.

Dr. Olademiji, my heart goes

Dr. Olademiji, my heart goes out to you. It is not easy what you are going through but let me remind you that no condition is permanent. Shake it off, cos you have come a long way and show them that you are not down and out yet.

For all those Nigerians on auto denial mode, you do not have a country. You are on your own. As for the people of Nigeria, the house is clearly divided. The general feeling is you want my sympathy? Well I never had one from anybody why should I give it to you. SNC, SNC, SNC, SNC….

@oredad. What's being a citizen got to do with the issue?

@oredad. I think generator fumes have destroyed your brain, what is being a citizen got to do with this issue? you people are so dumb sometimes for the kind of things you posted online,if you have nothing concrete to contribute its not by force,read and move on.

if he is a captain in the US

if he is a captain in the US military,it should be assumed he is a citizen

Igbos are the worst thing to happen to man kind, very backward.

Villagers, bad mouth, tribalistic idiots,will sell their mother for peanuts,will sell human body parts to make money, kidnapping, gun racketts,biggest drugs dealers. I have personally arrested many in england when i was in service, they are worst than any other tribes in africa, so selfish to the extent that their cities are part of the worst in nigeria, even when they come to city they simply can't leran because they find it hard, that's why they can never and never will rule nigeria, biggoted animals.

Pay back time

@AU Citizen,

You claim you are ashamed of Igbo comments. Man, it is a question of action and reaction. If the doctor was Igbo every Yoruba and their mothers would be mocking Igbos saying that it was the love of money that did it to him. Remember it goes both ways. You people say: 'Do me I do you Allah no go vex'.

Blame “the other” Nigerians

Blame “the other” Nigerians for the madness in your Yoruba blood. What did you produce from 1999 to today? You left the country in ruins because of your backward culture and mindset. Blame your father and grandfathers and Yoruba gods for making you as you are – low in intelligence. The naija man had respect when the Hausa man was in charge of Nigeria. What are your results????? Can there be a country or respect for you when you behave like wild beasts in Oyo, Ekiti, Kwara, and beyond??

The psychiatrist just behaved

The psychiatrist just behaved like one of his patients.

Re: Nigerians at home....

Yeah guy... u tell them! Ignorant nigerian sellouts never standing up for their own kind.What kind of people are these anyway???

Dr Olademiji is a victim of Nepotism in Residency in the USA

Dr Olademiji, I feel for you, I know how hard it is to get a residency post in the USA and I understand what you are going through with at the hands of so many Indians and Saudi Arabia Citizens and Asians that you have to compete with to get that Residency post in the first place. I know they are dying to get rid of you from the program because the Program director are from their countries and they benefit from such nepotistic relationship in Residency. The reason you are suffering now is because we, Nigerians don't have support system to fall back on like the Indians and the Arabs and the Asians. Next time Nigerians learn to support each other like these group of people too instead of bickering and back-biting each other to reach the top and preventing each other from reaching the top.

Dr Olademiji is a victim of Nepotism in Residency in the USA

I hope Jonathan will take this up, if A Saudi Arabia citizen or a citizen of India, or China or other Asian countries or even citizen of Libya that is at war was in the same situation, his embassy and government would come to his rescue and demand answers and compensations.
Jonathan, do something, the Yorubas voted en mass for you too to win as President. Let our mandate count for us too, GEJ.

irony

Nigeria could have been better governed,incidents like this would have been prevented

Patriotic Nigerians must start writing the petitions now.

Patriotic Nigerians must start writing the petitions now to the Nigerian Embassy in the US condmening this barbaric acts by the Police Dept in Missouri,USA. We must also go and protest at the US embassy in Lagos and Abuja regarding this. The question is when are we mobilizing?

Truthmatters - what truth will that be?

@Truthmatters, you obviously have not left the shores of Nigeria before.
Let me educate you, your submission is not only ignorantly made but also false. Police brutality is recorded on a daily basis in the USA and such atrocities are committed without them realizing that someone is recording it live. In these day and age of video cameras on cellphone, I report happens all the time so watch out, it might be your turn to be violently attacked next time.

Cure yourselves - bush doctors

Some people still believe in Nigeria. So they some here to vilify others when they are their own worst enemies. If A Saudi citizen or a citizen of Morocco or Vietnam was in the same situation, his embassy and government would come to his rescue. What did Yoruba leave behind after ruling the nation from 1999 to 2006? Charity begins at home. When you prosecute Obasanjo for thousands of Yoruba lives he snuffed out in Oyo, Lagos, Ekiti, Ogun, and Osun between 1999 and 2006, your claims about this or that will begin to make sense. The Yoruba man on the video is lucky that he was not treated the way Obasanjo and Adedibu treated many Yoruba sons and daughters – beheaded, buried alive, or burnt to death.

Nigerian Physician Brutally Assaulted

Nigerians never behave, these clueless bunch of illiterates on both sides have reduced the issue to their stupid levels of making it an Ibo or Yoruba tribal issue and all kinds of low thinking insults. We all can see and upright, hard-working and great Ambassador of Nigeria been brutalized in this video, it should not matter what part of Nigeria these Doctor is from. We all as Nigerians shouold be outraged about this and demand that this hospital invistigate the issue and get to the buttom of it. Good thing this happened in good old USA and there is a video to boot, some one would pay and the Doctor would have the last laugh in all of this... I also want all our Yoruba and Nigerian groups to write letter to this hospital and demand for some expalnations ASAP..

Many holes in the story

There are many holes in this story and so it is difficult for one to make any meaningful comment on it:
1. He was pressured to quit; was it a notice to resign?
2. Olademiji's lawsuit suggests a written notice of termination from the hospital;
3. Assuming he had a termination letter he could still have visited the hospital, for a retirement party, without arousing any ugly scene; the action of the hospital was unnatural if nothing other than the termination was the bone of contention. But it is also possible the hospital was angry over the lawsuit.
4. The violence was spillover of the acrimony but basically a visitor must leave when asked to but the occupier must exercise reasonable force if needed to effect compliance.

This can happen to any black man

Those condemning the doctor are simply mad. This guy has committed no crime & is the victim of racism in a jewish hospital. Black christians slavishly follow the zionist agenda but they are the most racist towards dudu man - portraying all black men as violent thugs. In America meet a white person's eyes and they look at you with fear & hate, even if you're very gentle. Africans must unite to move forward. I'm ashamed of a lot of igbos who comment on this site I have to say.

Foreign Minister

I think our diplomatic relationship with so called Europeans and America should be reviewed.This can't happen to any foreigner in OUR GREAT NATION despite the state of lawlessness.

No matter what Dr.Oladimeji had done afterall he was not caught with weapon like Abdulmuttalab did.

I want to believe that he will get justice because America was created on the foundation of LAW AND ORDER.

A word of advise to fellow Nigerians in diaspora, no matter be your legal status, a foreigner will always be a foreigner,please tread softly where you are invited.

@ Tony H

Egbon,

E be like say you don dey chop that thing wen Somali people dey chop(khat).

Wetin concern 9ja police and PDP for this matta...when happen for Yankee?

Na wa oooh!

nigerians at home are jealous,especially the ibo villagers.

yeye people, sick nation sick people. I hate y'all murder fuckers, i will kill you first, before i kill a snake, that's why i dont like working with any nigerians except those that have morals which is one in twenty, same mentality as their govt, if anything happens to a nigerian anywhere,they will never fight for him or her instead they will crucify their own, unpatriotic bastrads.

Typical

The Yoruba man thought he was in Ekiti or Oyo where they behave like mad thugs. Think about this for a moment. Oyo is the center of Yoruba "civilization" but thugs and murderers have been running the state since 1999 when a Yoruba son became the president. Ekiti state contains more Yoruba PhD holders than any piece of land in the word and yet Ekiti contains more deadly thugs and murderers than any other state in Nigeria. Too bad the Yoruba thug in Missouri could not get his way as they do in Ekiti and Oyo. Missouri has laws and people obey the laws. It is hard for the Yoruba boy to comprehend the significance of laws and order - his gene and culture had none it.

@Oluorogbo

Yes, I totally agree with you. Trading insults in such forum that are supposed to educate is uncivilized.

@Oluorogbo

Yes, I totally agree with you. Trading insults in such forum that are supposed to educate is uncivilized.

Sahara Reporters

Please it is advisable to educate those who are abusive in general discuss. I believe you have means to contact discussants via email. Abusive words changes the platform of discuss and makes it hostile. I can understand tribal bias but use of raw abuses is not acceptable. I do control and restraint daily as part of my work in where people refer to as real world. When you have a trained captain - who is better trained than the police anyway, putting up a fight, you have to use whatever method to see that things does not get out of hand. Those who are talking about rights - do you have to engage police in a struggle to exercise your rights - NO!

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