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To: Altariel
"This incident is but another tragic example of the level police incompetence when dealing with the mentally ill."

Oh, Bravo Sierra.

I do not care if he was sane or mentally ill, white black, brown or tattooed.

When someone attacks armed officers with a machette, they are most likely going to be shot...and for good reason.

71 posted on 12/05/2014 1:39:28 PM PST by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Jeff Head
Jeff, I've seen "TRAINED" staff in a head injury/spinal injury rehab unit that managed to subdue a patient holding a broken Coke Bottle threatening them and himself with it. The difference is they are trained and experienced and have the medication means to chemically subdue a patient in seconds once they grab them if talking doesn't work. Cops are not mental health professionals. They were placed in this equation by the courts.

Many times the ones who blame the COPs will also scream bloody murder that mental patients are being kept against their will in some case and violating their rights.

72 posted on 12/05/2014 1:48:41 PM PST by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: Jeff Head

Where are the wounds from the attacks? Pictures?

What’s that? The officers *found him in the bathroom, allegedly holding machete* The only confirmed wounds from a weapon are the bullet wounds in his corpse.

Huh. Fancy that.

You know, if one party wasn’t wearing government costumes, one would conclude that they attacked him. But of course we know that wearing a government costume protects one from such accusations.


73 posted on 12/05/2014 7:51:13 PM PST by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Jeff Head
When someone attacks armed officers with a machette, they are most likely going to be shot...and for good reason.

Except he was in his own home, cowering behind a locked door. Who was attacking whom?

84 posted on 12/06/2014 5:20:10 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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