Posted on 01/23/2022 8:22:58 PM PST by algore
A man who says he suffers from mental illness keeps cycling through the King County criminal justice system. He has a long history of suicide-by-cop attempts. Someone is bound to get hurt or worse if the man is not kept in jail.
The suspect is accused of trying to take hostages at a Target in West Seattle, where he barricaded himself for hours. He allegedly posted videos of himself from inside the store after threatening would-be hostages with a knife. It’s not the first time he’s been accused of trying to hold shoppers hostage at a department store.
The suspect was arrested and charged with assaulting a Seattle Police officer just eight days prior. But a judge released the suspect on his own personal recognizance despite the prosecutor’s plea for bail. It set the stage for the suspect to take over the Target.
The suspect tried to take hostages
At roughly 4:43 pm on January 21, the suspect called 911 to say he was going to “take 1 hostage at knife point,” according to police documents. He was apparently “fixated” on the idea and stayed on with the 911 operator throughout the entire alleged incident.
The caller refused to tell the operator where he was headed because, according to the police document detailing the call, “he’ll just be sent back to the hospital & the hospital won’t assist & and will just release him.” He acknowledged his “need for mental health services.” He took a bus from an unknown location, telling the bus driver that he is homeless. He ended up at a Target in West Seattle. His “plan” was to get a kitchen knife and “take hostages to be on national news.”
Once at the store, he allegedly asked an employee “where knives are” before grabbing one and unwrapping it. Police documents say he threatened a female customer as a witness was “yelling to get out of the building.” As they left, the suspect allegedly yelled, “stop I’m holding you hostage” and “if I can’t get the help I need, I’m holding you hostage.”
The suspect allegedly approached random customers to tell them they were hostages. He wanted officers to kill him, the police document says, and was “planning to run at police with [the] knife.”
This is so sad... The man knows he needs help and doesn’t know any other way to get it. This is what happens when courts and law enforcement keep repeating the same patterns with suspects and convicts.
I actually feel bad for this guy.
Mental illness is especially noticeable in the PNW. The long dull winters dont help. Sometimes the whole land just seems like there is a big gray lid way up in the sky covering over everything. Sometimes you wont see the sun for two weeks and the land just seems like it feels sick or something. I remember one year the Sea-Tac Airport recorded 33 straight days of measurable rain.
OK Mr Reporterette, who is the judge, and why would a Seattle BLM prosecutor actually want to hold a criminal in prison on bail?
And if the "suspect" knows he needs help, but that the hospitals do not help him, then why are we paying all this money for mental health hospitals that do not help?
Even in the "bad old days" there were medicines that could alleviate some of the mental health nuttiness that existed.
The “judge” should be the hostage.
As a former longtime Seattle resident ... You’re absolutely right. Months of gloom aren’t exactly healthy.
Seattle has a mental hospital place i think in west seattle, north of white center, but not very big.
(bellevue is in NY, not on the eastside)
I think there is one in Wenatchee too.
For some reason we’re not permitted to know the man’s name, apparently.
weird that he doesn’t try for ‘suicide by inmate’ while in prison- if he wants mental health- get on welfare and get into mental health help if you can’t aFford it but need it and can’t work because of the condition-
“planning to run at police with [the] knife.”
But he didn’t?
The whole city of Seattle is one big mental institution where the Marxists are in charge.
Stunned by the amount of violent stuff people can do and be walking around. Hands on others, vehicles, threats … And they’re walking around! Guess I’m naive. Too many old movies. Thought if I did one serious thing and got involved with the criminal justice system my life would be endless jail or prison Hell for years. But then again I’m white, probably would be.
I’m also a vaccine refuser, a Catholic (or any Christian who won’t go along to get along),a conservative Trump man, so is the criminal justice system gonna come for me anyways?
I feel bad for the guy too. But even worse for his innocent victims. All because of our “justice” system. I guess they aren’t able to commit him to a mental institution for the long haul? I hope it doesn’t end with others or him getting killed.
Even in the “bad old days” there were medicines that could alleviate some of the mental health nuttiness that existed.
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In the bad old days, you could require the medicine.
Today that ‘violates their rights’.
If they were insistent on releasing him, it should have been into the spare bedroom at the judges house.
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