Get a load of this....
ACLU of Pennsylvania
@aclupa
For at least the third time since Labor Day, police in Pennsylvania have shot people of color who were in the midst of a mental health crisis.
4:07 PM · Oct 27, 2020·Twitter Web App
Thats the new angle. The dead guy, who was armed with a knife he refused to put down, was just having a “mental health crisis”.
Question for the family then: Instead of calling the cops scores of times, why didn’t you have him involuntarily committed? Or call a social worker? Why keep calling THE COPS?
I needed 2 cops for an involuntary committal yesterday. They were needed to 'do the paper" and manhandle the patient onto our stretcher. This was a 250 lb 26 year old female. Sure a social worker, if they're present, can do the paper, but involuntary committals are impossible without the cops 90% of the time.
In an ideal world we'd be issued rifles w/tranquilizer darts, like Jim had in 'Wild Kingdom'. If it worked on animals on the Serengeti it'd probably work on animals in West Philly.