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Boy, 16, with autism had seizure, was handcuffed and arrested, California mom says
ABC 6 ^ | 2/1/2020 | Cory James

Posted on 02/01/2020 3:21:50 PM PST by wastedyears

FRESNO, Calif. -- A California mother is outraged after she says her son, who has autism, was placed in handcuffs instead of being taken to the hospital.

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To: TribalPrincess2U

They were coming from the kids Doctor, and had his papers from the visit.

This is not a case of not knowing.
It’s a case of disregarding.


101 posted on 02/01/2020 6:23:57 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: frog in a pot

What request, delivered under what justification, and in what tone?


102 posted on 02/01/2020 6:26:05 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Openurmind
Same characters in every “cop was wrong” thread doing the same thing.

Handcuffing anyone coming out of a seizure is always and forever wrong.

103 posted on 02/01/2020 6:32:31 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: MrEdd

My mother was held by the police; she has dementia and a co worker father in-law was beat up by the cops when he was going into insulin shock. I notice all the medical conditions in this article are covered by medical alert bracelets at a web site. My mothers doctor never mentioned it to me.


104 posted on 02/01/2020 6:39:16 PM PST by the_daug
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To: MrEdd

OMG! Tht’s terrible. I would sue someone personally!


105 posted on 02/01/2020 6:47:13 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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To: the_daug

I have hypothalamus damage and get hypothermia and heat exhaustion or stroke easily. Not sure if there is a bracelet for that, but I also have acidic skin and metal allergy so a bracelet wouldn’t work.

I have old military dog tags for wasp sting allergy that I can wear on the outside, but there’s an emergent care clinic a block away and usually if I get stung it’s at home. Also that poltice thing with Adolph’s meat tenderizer does work.


106 posted on 02/01/2020 6:57:55 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: wastedyears
I had a roommate in DC who was diagnosed with epilepsy but only in his sleep, so he had a drivers license.

One day he's driving near the Capitol and had a seizure.

He wakes up with the car against a tree on the Capitol grounds with a bunch of cops with guns drawn. He's groggy and speech is slurred, so they book him on DUI and a bunch of other violations. No medical attention, natch.

My other roommate and I went to bail him out. He and his family spent a lot of money getting those charges dismissed.

107 posted on 02/01/2020 8:54:11 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: Pearls Before Swine

My son has type I diabetes. When he went to college, I told him he was going to either wear a medical warning bracelet or get a tattoo on his wrist (and I would pay for either or both). He chose to get a tattoo. That tattoo, saved his butt several times when he let his sugar get too low and he acted drunk around cops.


108 posted on 02/01/2020 9:35:29 PM PST by fini
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To: Hot Tabasco

Obviously some deep thinkers in your family tree!


109 posted on 02/01/2020 9:39:11 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: MrEdd

No one has ever been found to be allergic to platinum and very, very few people have been found to be allergic to titanium. They make medical bracelets out of both metals for people that are allergic reasons. You might see if that would work for you.


110 posted on 02/01/2020 9:41:17 PM PST by fini
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To: pierrem15

Too bad it sounds like they couldn’t personally sue the “officers” that tried to ruin his life.


111 posted on 02/01/2020 10:29:09 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: fini

Interesting. At least the cops he interacted with were trained to look for the bracelet/tattoo. Did he have to tell them to look, or did they do it on their own? I ask because I don’t know how impaired he got during his low sugar incidents.


112 posted on 02/02/2020 5:28:17 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: MrEdd; All
What request, delivered under what justification, and in what tone?

Those three questions should be, and are indeed, easily answered:

1. Any request deemed as a matter of law (i.e., your legislature and courts) that may be thought important by LE in the performance of its duties. It is important to recognize in this regard the difference between questions and requests.
2. See above.
3. In an understandable human tone and in the language used to publish the underlying laws (i.e, let’s not make LE any more difficult than it already is)(it is quite possible an employee or customer called 911 in this case when a hysterical lady ran around screaming in a foreign language prior to it being recognized as a medical emergency).

Your posts imply there may be occasions when you, through no fault of your own, would not be able to present to LE as a typical individual. IMO, if such is the result of service to our country you are entitled to special consideration and I think most LEO’s from fresh recruit through retirement would immediately agree. Obviously, the extent of that consideration would depend on how confident they were of their control of the event.

However, it is you that has the burden of bringing this fact to the immediate attention of LE. You have indicated you could wear military dog tags that quickly alerted LE of your circumstances, but that such wearing is not always convenient. Perhaps you and others with similar medical conditions ought to give that further thought.

Unfortunately for you, once you go out into public you are “outside the wire”. The city, county and state LE offices would certainly know via written documents if any member of my family had such a burden.

Best regards and good luck.

113 posted on 02/02/2020 3:22:40 PM PST by frog in a pot (The House - American Left: "Trump may take no action that may favor him politically.")
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