Ebola Patient Who Died in Texas Was Delayed Care 'Because He’s African and Uninsured' Says Dallas County Commissioner

Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price. (Screen capture from
YouTube video)

By Jack Fink
Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price was blunt. He said Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital originally sent Thomas Duncan home three days before ‎he was diagnosed with Ebola because he’s African and uninsured.

“It is historical what has happened in this community,” Price said. “If a person who looks like me shows up without any insurance, they don’t get the same treatment.”

CBS 11 News asked the hospital if it had a response to Mr. Price’s statement and comments made in Dallas earlier Tuesday by Civil Rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson claiming that Duncan may have initially been medically mishandled by Texas Health Presbyterian.

Texas Health Resources spokesperson Candace White sent a statement that said, “He [Duncan] was treated the way any other patient would have been treated, regardless of nationality or ability to pay for care. We have a long history of treating a multicultural community in this area.”

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French Police Raid Home of Black Comedian Accused of Telling Anti-Semitic Jokes

Dieudonné: Comedian and son of Cameroon father and
French mother, is called an "activist" who "took a rightward
turn" and became controversial for denouncing Zionism,
the Israeli Lobby, and calling Holocaust remembrance
"memorial pornography." (Photo by Emmanuel Digiaro)

French police have launched a raid on the home of anti-Zionist comedian, Dieudonne M'bala M'bala, as well as his offices, seizing his personal documents and other belongings.

The French government accuses the controversial comedian of what it describes as promotion of anti-Semitism, and it is mounting pressure against him through judicial measures.

The government has already banned M’bala M’bala’s public gatherings and the raids on Tuesday were sanctioned as, what the government claims, part of a broader investigation into suspected fraud by Dieudonné.

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Black French Comedian Faces Demands for Bannning Over His 'Jokes' About Jews

Dieudonné: Comedian and son of Cameroon father and
French mother, is called an "activist" who "took a rightward
turn" and became controversial for denouncing Zionism,
the Israeli Lobby, and calling Holocaust remembrance
"memorial pornography." (Photo by Emmanuel Digiaro)

Dieudonné has been part of France's comedy scene for years, but while he started out with a Jewish comedian in sketches that mocked racism, he gradually veered to the far-right and alienated some fans with anti-Jewish comments -- one of his latest being a joke about gas chambers.

RELATED STORY: Riot Police Sent In As 'Anti-Semitic Pedlar Of Hate' Dieudonne Has His Tour Banned

Pressure mounts on French comic in racism row (via AFP)

The mayor of Paris has joined France's interior minister in calling for comedian Dieudonne, whose vitriolic brand of humour targeting Jews has caused outrage, to be banned from the stage. Anti-racist groups also threatened legal action against a provocative…

Riot Police Sent In As 'Anti-Semitic Pedlar Of Hate' Dieudonne Has His Tour Banned

Riot Police Sent In As 'Anti-Semitic Pedlar Of Hate' Dieudonne Has His Tour Banned (via Sky News)

Riot police had to be brought in to contain furious fans of a controversial French comedian after he was banned from performing by a court just hours before he was due on stage. The 47-year-old comic Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala, who has been condemned as…