No, I did not make that assumption, the mother said it, and said that the 15 year old would not take the medications that he needed to manage his illness.
This situation is common across the country. The medications needed to manage this sort of impulsive, out of control, irrational, delusional, and dysregulated behavior do not feel good and the mentally ill often rebel at taking them and then as their illness symptoms increase, this sort of damage is the result. They will not take the pills that straightjacket their brains, and real straightjackets are illegal.
So If you want you can be invested in this being a cultural or racial thing, it may be important to you to see it this way, however in reality this is a mental health de-institutionalization thing.
I worked with a woman who’s son had a serious disorder, at 10 yrs he hit his father with a two by four. This went on for years in one mental facility after another. But because of laws they were lomited on what they could do.
In his teen years it was just a matter of waiting nights to hear the phone ring at yet another arrest by police. ...or he was involved in something he couldn’t get out of. This too went on throughout his teen years. Once they age out of the system parents can no longer impact them they are of legal age. At 22 yrs old the phone call came again - he was surrounded by police cars after shooting a cab drivers head off. The parents heard the shot that took the shooters (their sons) life that night.
I worked with this woman and know what it is too have children with severe violent natures. And others as well. Until they open mental isntitutions so these people can be institutionalized as they need to be - they will roam the streets and in their homes.
However, not all that are violent have mental disorders. And I will not excuse cases just because it’s a way to ease the laws that should put them behind bars.