A 39-year-old Saint Paul man told security guards at Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina that he was not going to get up from an unlocked bathroom stall. He told them to call the police, according to the complaint. One of the guards did.
Officers were sent to the hospital on Nov. 4 after dispatch said a patient had been discharged but was refusing to leave. When they arrived they found Isaac Joseph Zanmiller on the ground being handcuffed by hospital security.
The guards later told police what led up to it. One of them said he and two other guards found Zanmiller sitting in the stall. After the call to police, the guard said, Zanmiller stood up and walked into the lobby, where he began yelling and disturbing other patients. Two of the guards tried to escort him out. He began to thrash, got away and said he was not leaving. He started to “swing” at them, the complaint says. The guards took him to the ground.
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The guard who had called police was trying to control Zanmiller’s legs when Zanmiller kicked him once in the left knee, according to the complaint. The guards held Zanmiller down until police arrived. The guard’s knee was red and swollen. He was evaluated at the hospital, where medical staff told him the knee was inflamed and gave him three days off work.
Zanmiller is charged in Hennepin County District Court in a complaint filed Nov. 6 with fourth-degree assault of a hospital or clinic security guard, a felony that carries up to three years in prison or a $6,000 fine or both. A judge set bail at $20,000.
