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.
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
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.
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.
According to the Epilepsy Foundation, TLS seizures are usually over in a few minutes. That leaves marijuana-induced schizophrenia on the table. Why did the stoner son have daddy in short sleeves outside in the cold and expecting the officer to roll up and throw daddy in a cage without question one? Cops aren't uber drivers.
What was the son's problem that he was unwilling to drive his own blood needing mental health intervention to the ER? (or, especially in Tahoe, bundle them up and walk it off - then go to the ER). It's not like Tahoe doesn't have 24-hr hospitals. Daddy's acting strange after getting stoned so it's not the son's responsibility? And they're the victims? I don't get it.
“”They also secretly recorded him while he spoke on his cellphone with family members to obtain incriminating information against his father, the lawsuit alleged.””
He spoke with family members to get information against his father? The writer should be in jail!!!!
From the original reports it was a long BBQ skewer that he attempted to use on the cop. A BBQ skewer would be too blunt to cut a shirt or vest, but could be plunged deep into bare flesh. Not to mention that someone wearing a bulletproof vest would not be able to feel the difference between being struck by a sharp blade and being struck by a skewer and would have to assume the other guy was trying to inflict damage and could have a knife capable of doing it, and if there was wrestling the cop would have to do whatever was neccessary to insure his weapons were secure from being grabbed and used against him or others.
I’d like to know what the son’s testimony was before blaming the cop, even though the son was high. Was there a struggle of any kind? If not, why did the cop pull the weapon out? When did the son see the weapon come out? What was his dad doing and where when the gun came out?
If there was a struggle, I would have to side with the cop. If there was no struggle, I would want to hear the explanation for the escalation.