Posted on 12/03/2014 8:55:50 PM PST by Altariel
Its the back side of the nanny state.
Here’s another imaginary SWAT raid
This is the second recent story about police shooting a mentally ill man when he refused to take his medication.
Of course, in this case, the man armed himself with a machete, but he locked himself in a room.
These kinds of police tactics really need to change.
IMHO, they were looking to use their new toys. 😳
With the increased prevalence in autism and police aggression in general, something must be done before anymore innocent lives are taken.
Well, yeah, if the cops are hearing imaginary gunshots there might be a little too much autism on the force.
Once again the cops murder someone and get away with it. That thin blue line will protect the them.
Calling the cops in never a good idea unless you feel someone is threatening you or your family and you’re out of ammo.
To a hammer everything looks like a nail.
The cowardly murderer at Sandy Hook also refused to take his meds; the world would be a far better place if he’d lived in Midland too.
I’d say that routine welfare check went poorly.
This incident is but another tragic example of the level police incompetence when dealing with the mentally ill.
Then don’t call the police. Call a doctor call a social worker.
So-called Free Thought project is about as credible as the Al Sharpton and Ferguson people.
Yea, and one more important issue with many officers is lack of training in,,,,,,,,,
CONFLICT RESOLUTION!
Instead we have a minority of ill prepared and undertrained gung ho wanabe Army soldiers
out there looking to score a legalized Murder notch in their belt. While those
few percentage points make Whole departments look very very bad another issue is the
Blue Shield not policing their own and stopping these nut cases from acting out, or
issuing unfathomable orders which lead to the deaths of people who didn't
desperately deserve it.
Get your act together Mayors of America, when we start holding you responsible
the shit storm will be on your doorstep, in a bag, and on fire!
They spent four hours trying to calm Rodriquez down. The violent part started when he swung the machete at a negotiator who ducked the edge of the blade but got struck on the side of the head when Rodriquez came through on the backswing with the blunt edge and another cop standing to the side shot him.
As long as that was the case the cop had every right to shoot him dead.
I also might note that Mr Agorist kinda accidentally forgot to mention that the Midland County Sheriff Dept. guy who was their main negotiator was shot in the head and killed less than two months ago in one of these cases.
No doubt that was just an unplanned accidental oversight on Agorist’ part.
A slightly more credible source:
http://www.mrt.com/news/crime/article_221316c4-79c7-11e4-9ca6-d35109efa02e.html
>swung the machete
never a good move unless in the jungle.
Call a counselor, therapist, psychiatrist or relative who has been able to help in the past. Don't be calling a man with a gun - he's likely to use it.
“locking himself in his bathroom with a machete.”
I will summarize this long and convoluted piece of “journalism”: a machete welding violent psycho (not pc but the truth) is no more.
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