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High court: Police immune over arrest of mentally ill woman
The Sentinel ^
| 5-18-2015
| AP
Posted on 05/18/2015 12:13:52 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Edited on 05/18/2015 1:43:54 PM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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So the next step is a Fedral civil hate crime charge?
To: Citizen Zed
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posted on
05/18/2015 12:15:17 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
To: BuckeyeTexan
To: Citizen Zed
So the police should give a crazy person with a knife special consideration when confronting them?
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posted on
05/18/2015 12:18:19 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(A free society canÂ’t let the parameters of its speech be set by murderous extremists.)
To: Citizen Zed
a mentally ill woman in San Francisco...
Sounds oddly redundant.
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posted on
05/18/2015 12:20:50 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: SpaceBar
How many mentally ill people do we know that wear a sign stating their affliction? Not too many I surmise.
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posted on
05/18/2015 12:25:53 PM PDT
by
DaveA37
To: SpaceBar
How many mentally ill people do we know that wear a sign stating their affliction? Not too many I surmise, UNLESS ofcourse, they are official demodummies.
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posted on
05/18/2015 12:26:54 PM PDT
by
DaveA37
To: Citizen Zed
I would hope the next step is suing whomever let a mentally ill woman have a knife in the first place. Case should have been dismissed when brought up.
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posted on
05/18/2015 12:33:19 PM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: Citizen Zed
The case raises some interesting questions?
- What could the police do differently with a mentally deranged person vs a criminal with evil intent?
- If they can safely subdue a person using less force, aren't they obligated to do so regardless of the motive/mental state?
- And if they can't safely subdue a person who is mentally deranged, why not? Are there no alternatives?
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posted on
05/18/2015 1:02:51 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: kingu
I thinnk kingu is mentally deranged. Somebody should take his knives away and I’ll sue you if you don’t.
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posted on
05/18/2015 1:03:39 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Citizen Zed
How can a police officer, or ANYONE, know whether an unknown attacker is “mentally ill?”
Should we ask them from the other side of the grave?
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posted on
05/18/2015 1:12:48 PM PDT
by
fwdude
(The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
To: DannyTN
Of course; we’ll just ignore the group home thing where she was living... who were responsible for seeing that she didn’t hurt herself or others.
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posted on
05/18/2015 1:17:29 PM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: kingu
Well if it is like Tennessee, the state hires Haitian immigrants at minimum wage to watch them.
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posted on
05/18/2015 1:38:49 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Citizen Zed
What worse than crazy is this got all the way up to the Supreme Court.
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posted on
05/18/2015 2:00:45 PM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: Citizen Zed
“But the justices left undecided the question of whether police must take special precautions when arresting armed and violent people suffering from mental illness.”
Because it is so easy to tell the difference between a crazy person and a ‘sane’ person. We all know “armed and violent” insane people can’t hurt you as fast as a ‘normal’ armed and violent sane person.
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posted on
05/18/2015 2:50:22 PM PDT
by
Hulka
To: Lurking Libertarian; Perdogg; JDW11235; Clairity; Spacetrucker; Art in Idaho; GregNH; Salvation; ...
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posted on
05/19/2015 11:10:23 AM PDT
by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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