“Dixon had served several tours in Iraq and had friends among the Appling County deputies, Sweat said.
“It’s a regrettable situation,’’ Sweat said.
Dixon’s older sister, Serran Aaron, said her brother suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and was 100 percent disabled.”
Wow, these cops really went out on a limb for their buddy. It seems like cops these days are really trigger happy and trained accordingly. So his “friends” at the Sherrifs department gunned a sick man down like a dog. I recall a story where a mentally retarded teenager was shot down after being badly burned in a vehicle accident. He was jumping around “acting erratically and growling” instead of following deputy dog’s commands. So they shot him down. He refused to lay down on hot asphalt with first degree burns all over his body.
I just said much the same thing.
I recall a story where a mentally retarded teenager was shot down after being badly burned in a vehicle accident. [...] He refused to lay down on hot asphalt with first degree burns all over his body.
That doesn't sound retarded at all to me.
What does sound retarded is: vehicle-accident survivor* —> shoot-him!
* Esp considering a vehicle accident could easily be a cause for traumatic brain injury, in which case that "acting erratically" is actually a symptom.
Requiring someone to lay down on asphalt shouldn’t even be legal. That gets hot enough to cause injury.
Jeeezzz,,, I can’t believe that service in Iraq doesn’t allow a guy to shoot his neighbors house, run through police roadblocks, and run grab a shotgun to confront cops with! They should have just let him do anything he pleased,, forever,, with no limits!
Glad this guy won’t be a menace anymore. Sad that it went this way, but the failure was long before this night. It was that he wasnt locked in a nuthouse.
He should have never been living on his own if he was so screwed up by ptsd that he cannot refrain from being a danger to the community.
Sounds like those cops gave him a lot of latitude,,, they waited till daylight instead of pushing the issue too fast,, they let him LEAVE. They let him return,, they let him into the house to retrieve his shotgun.