Its the back side of the nanny state.
Here’s another imaginary SWAT raid
This is the second recent story about police shooting a mentally ill man when he refused to take his medication.
Of course, in this case, the man armed himself with a machete, but he locked himself in a room.
These kinds of police tactics really need to change.
IMHO, they were looking to use their new toys. 😳
With the increased prevalence in autism and police aggression in general, something must be done before anymore innocent lives are taken.
Well, yeah, if the cops are hearing imaginary gunshots there might be a little too much autism on the force.
Once again the cops murder someone and get away with it. That thin blue line will protect the them.
Calling the cops in never a good idea unless you feel someone is threatening you or your family and you’re out of ammo.
The cowardly murderer at Sandy Hook also refused to take his meds; the world would be a far better place if he’d lived in Midland too.
I’d say that routine welfare check went poorly.
This incident is but another tragic example of the level police incompetence when dealing with the mentally ill.
Then don’t call the police. Call a doctor call a social worker.
So-called Free Thought project is about as credible as the Al Sharpton and Ferguson people.
Yea, and one more important issue with many officers is lack of training in,,,,,,,,,
CONFLICT RESOLUTION!
Instead we have a minority of ill prepared and undertrained gung ho wanabe Army soldiers
out there looking to score a legalized Murder notch in their belt. While those
few percentage points make Whole departments look very very bad another issue is the
Blue Shield not policing their own and stopping these nut cases from acting out, or
issuing unfathomable orders which lead to the deaths of people who didn't
desperately deserve it.
Get your act together Mayors of America, when we start holding you responsible
the shit storm will be on your doorstep, in a bag, and on fire!
A slightly more credible source:
http://www.mrt.com/news/crime/article_221316c4-79c7-11e4-9ca6-d35109efa02e.html
Call a counselor, therapist, psychiatrist or relative who has been able to help in the past. Don't be calling a man with a gun - he's likely to use it.
“locking himself in his bathroom with a machete.”
I will summarize this long and convoluted piece of “journalism”: a machete welding violent psycho (not pc but the truth) is no more.
Again, yet another reason why when the shtf I will not be backing the cops. They’ll murder anyone for anything.
Freedom From War, Pub 7277 from State Dept. Explains what SWAT is all about and why cops are being militarized.
Nutshell: SWAT is internal incident forces. National military forces more and more under global commands. End goal is to have global military that no one coutries’ internal forces could defeat.
family says he wasn’t on any meds, yet the cops show up to force him?
he then retreats into his house to avoid being forced to take some mystery pills... at which point he’s a danger and they use deadly force
was there a reason they thought he was supposed to be on the meds?
do we no longer have a choice? take the drugs the govt says or get shot? is that the options now?
thx 0bama
shooting to death the mentally ill and also those incapacitated by drink or drug is a pastime where I live....sadly....
Similar thing happened in Santa Rosa, CA this past year. (I was at a committee meeting where the widow testified as to what happened.) She called the SR police because her husband, who had been depressed, had locked her out of the house. Long story followed, but the police ended up ruining their house by firing tear gas grenades through the siding, then drove a SWAT tank through their garage door. The husband was terrified of police, and shot himself to avoid a final confrontation. The house had to be taken down to the studs and rebuilt because the tear gas had permeated all the drywall. The widow is suing the police for the cost of rebuilding the house, but the police say it’s not their fault and won’t pay a dime.
Our fair city . . . .
I can’t believe with all that heavy hardware outside, not one box or tote had a taser in it.
The man had a machete in a bathroom. Shooting to kill was heavy handed...yes I know the typical responses...
IF the man was, in fact, mentally challenged, the police response should have been to disable. The man was only a danger when some bureaucrat came to his door and demanded he take medications he clearly did not want to take. Yes, the family was seeking help for him, whatever that means...and I /we only have the couple of news stories to tell us that: what sort of help, what sort of meds/ was he paranoid delusional or was he bi-polar? Just what was the issue? We do not really KNOW because apparently the reporters didn’t choose to tell what the problem was: only that some worker said he wouldn’t take his meds and he ran and hid from them. The “gunshot” part is easily a contrived cover-ass.
There is just a lot of smell in this story. People who are a danger need help, no doubt. But if this is how help is delivered, I wouldn’t want it either.