Posted on 02/06/2016 2:11:28 PM PST by BenLurkin
Arizona police shot and killed a transgender man who gained viral fame last year after uploading a video showing his service dog calming him during a meltdown.
The 24-year-old, who had Asperger's syndrome, was legally known as Danielle Jacobs, but identified as Kayden Clarke and hoped to transition from female to male, friends told the Arizona Republic. Police were at his home Thursday morning after being alerted to a suicidal email he had sent out, according to the Associated Press.
A pair of officers tried to talk to Clarke through an open doorway as a third officer retrieved a "less-than-lethal option," a Mesa police spokesman said Friday, according to video uploaded by the Republic. Clarke came to the door with a large kitchen knife in hand, said the spokesman, who referred to Clarke as a woman.
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I was gifted & was in regular ed classes, until high school.
Well, in this article, the woman said on her YouTube channel that she had tried suicide by cop before. Evidently, that’s what she intended to happen this time, which is why she lunged at them with a knife. I watched one of her videos, and she seemed perfectly intelligent and knew what lunging at cops with a knife would do. I hope the cops who shot her get that information.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/transgender-man-shot-dead-police-hoping-transition-article-1.2522193
I read another article with that information, so, I KNOW the cops have that information.
Well, it IS a mental illness after all.
Regardless of what the current societal “norm” tries to make it out to be.
These “transgenders” are just homosexuals in the final throes of the disease.
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