Posted on 12/02/2020 8:32:06 AM PST by BenLurkin
Kolb and his son traveled from their home in San Mateo for a ski trip in Lake Tahoe and were staying at a cabin ... when Kolb woke up before dawn and began pacing around the cabin. He woke up his then 16-year-old son and asked him to get medical help...
Kolb’s son called 911 and reported his father was acting odd and was “in a dream-like state,” according to court documents. He told the dispatcher his father had a history of temporal lobe epilepsy and that they had smoked marijuana together before going to bed. Temporal lobe epilepsy can cause people to feel a sudden sense of fear or anxiety, anger or sadness, though a lawsuit filed by Kaye says Kolb had not had a similar incident in about 15 years.
Kolb’s son “...simply requested medical help as he observed his father suffering from a mental health episode,” Kaye said in court documents.
When Placer County Deputy Curtis Honeycutt arrived, he found Kolb and his son standing outside the cabin in the cold. Kolb was only wearing a short-sleeved shirt and pajama bottoms and Honeycutt instructed them to go back inside instead of securing Kolb in the back of the patrol car to await mental health intervention, the lawsuit said.
Once inside, Kolb grabbed a carving fork.... Honeycutt began “repeatedly, unreasonably and unjustifiably discharging his office issued firearm,” shattering one of Kolb’s vertebrae, the lawsuit said.
After the incident, the Placer County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement posted on its Facebook page that Honeycutt believed his life was in danger after Kolb stabbed him with a sharp instrument. His bulletproof vest protected him from injury but when Kolb tried to stab him a second time, the deputy used his service weapon to end the attack, the department said.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
Another case of the police being blamed for the failure of the mental health system.
This is why nobody in their right minds should become a cop these days.
* Smoking powerful dope with your son
* History of “temporal lobe epilepsy”
* Acting irrational standing outside nearly naked
* Grabs weapon and stabs officer twice
Why didn’t the officers just accept their fate? It’s all their fault.
Mentally ill or sane when someone tries to stab you with a sharp object you can shoot them....period....
Of course, this does put a hole in the pot advocates that pot smokers never, never, never are violent......
Put me on that jury and the “victim” would be sent packing. I don’t care if he was impaired or mentally unstable. You start stabbing someone, all bets are off.
Another latent mental illness triggered by marijuana use.
Read the whole article. Of course that is what the officer says, but there is no forensic evidence that his vest had been stabbed.
If you or I made that claim it would be described as "self-serving" and heavily discounted.
I think the cop was trigger-happy and the settlement is actually too low for the injuries this guy got. If there was even the slightest stab mark in the vest, I would be on the other side, but there isn't. He wasn't stabbed.
Nobody ever said that - you've been hallucinating.
I was wondering if there was evidence that his vest had been stabbed.
Would had to have gone through the shirt, too.
Seems like it would have been useful at a trial.
Maybe the Counties lawyers just got wobbly in the knees. Jury verdict for paralyzed plaintiffs can be quite steep.
The holidays are a good time to think back on happy times with our families. Remember the times you smoked dope with your parents before bed time? Good times... /s
From the article:
“forensic evidence showed the deputy’s vest had no signs of a stabbing, Kolb said.
“Detectives without training on interviewing minors who witnessed traumatic events questioned Kolb’s son without asking for the authorization of his mother, who was driving from Silicon Valley to reunite with him. They also secretly recorded him while he spoke on his cellphone with family members to obtain incriminating information against his father”
Apparently the marijuana triggered a psychomotor seizure. Knowing it was called in as a “mental health event” the deputy failed to secure the person in his patrol car for his own safety. And apparently the deputy lied about being attacked with a fork in order to justify use of his sidearm despite wearing a bulletproof vest which showed no signs of having been stabbed. Miserable situation. Wonder if deputy was wearing a cam.
Sending the police to do non-police work is exactly like using a hammer to clean your fine china.
If the officer was attacked he had the right to defend himself.
From the article: “forensic evidence showed the deputy’s vest had no signs of a stabbing”.
Release the defensive pot heads!
It’s medicinal and I can’t live without it.
It’s recreational and does not hurt anyone.
La, la, la.
The issue I raised was marijuana use causing a break with reality, why are you changing the subject?
BEFORE DAWN——EXACTLY what time do ‘social workers’ report for work???
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