A lawyer for the family of Carole Anne Gotbaum—the daughter-in-law of New York City Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum who died in police custody at the Phoenix airport—announced yesterday that an eyewitness reported seeing police carrying a "noncombative, not resisting" Gotbaum to the holding cell. "She wondered if she was dead," said attorney Michael Manning. For their part, Phoenix police are sticking by their original claim that an agitated, screaming Manning was left alone with her arms handcuffed behind her and somehow managed to bring her cuffed hands over her head before accidentally choking herself to death. Guess we'll wait and see what the autopsy report shows.

GOTBAUM TWIST [NYP]