It sounds like the neighbor was successfully talking to him.
It wasn’t until *after* the neighbor was ordered to leave that things went sour.
It sounds to me like (gasp) private citizens who genuinely love and care for their neighbors have a better grasp of taking care of their neighbors and community than do government employees.
Fancy that.
the police could not leave—even if the neighbor “calmed him down” if there was a call for and evidence of attempted suicide. The police are mandated to take him to a hospital and at that point the guy IS going to the hospital escorted by police. To do that, the police probably “ordered” the neighbor to leave when the neighbor may have said, “Its ok, he’s calmed down now.”
I still back the police on this. You can not leave someone just there that is suicidal...The police would not have been doing their job to get the person tot he hospital.