Posted on 06/05/2024 7:16:23 AM PDT by Morgana
An autistic teen from Ohio was forcibly restrained, taunted and manhandled by police while he begged them for help days before he died from a head injury, footage has revealed.
Isaiah Trammell, 19, was arrested in the early hours of March 13, 2023, following a mental health episode, the Columbus Dispatch reported.
When authorities arrived at Trammell’s home in Lebanon, they found an outstanding warrant for a misdemeanor domestic violence offense, and took the teen into custody around 1 a.m., the outlet reported.
Over the next 10 hours, Trammell — who had autism spectrum disorder — was denied repeated requests for a phone call, his medication and even a blanket, troubling footage from inside the Montgomery County Jail revealed.
“Please let’s talk about this,” Trammell could be heard begging five sheriff’s deputies as they pinned him to the floor of his cell.
“No, there’s no talking,” one deputy snapped as they strapped him into a restraint chair.
Trammell was restrained twice during his jail stint — including one stretch for more than two hours, which is over the time limit set by Ohio law, the Dispatch noted.
Shortly after he was booked, Trammell told the deputies that he wanted to die, and he was placed on suicide watch with a harm-proof blanket in a cell by himself.
“He hated his body to be exposed and he kept telling them. He hated to be confined. Absolutely that would trigger him,” Trammell’s mom, Brandy Abner, told the Dispatch.
The buildup of stress saw Trammell start banging his head, the footage showed.
Head-banging is a common stim, or self-soothing behavior, in those with autism, the Dispatch explained. In the past, Trammell’s loved ones did their best to keep him physically safe while he worked through his emotions.
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“The docs seem extremely reluctant to do this anymore. “
I can’t believe it’s gotten to that point. Is it the hospitals or insurance companies?
“Are most cops like that? I don’t think so. But a significant percentage of them are, enough to cast a shadow on the whole profession.”
When you make an accusation like that, you should have some facts, actual percentages, not your own perception.
“The problem is that the only modern police recruits are the bullies from high school who would set small animals on fire”
BS - pulled right r=from the Lefty playbook.
I have a friend with two autistic kids, both adults now and she had to deal with this many times. The hospitals won’t take an autistic individual, especially if they are acting out. Her daughter had a breakdown five years ago when she was 15. She was attacking her mom and her brother and putting her head repeatedly through the drywall in their apartment. She called 911. The EMTs and cops came and wouldn’t touch her. They suggested she take her to the hospital down the road. She had her mother come over to watch her son who was 17 at the time and she started on a futile quest to get help. She literally drove her daughter to 4 different hospitals and 2 ‘treatment centers’ here in Indianapolis and was turned down by all of them. They weren’t ‘equipped’ to handle her issues. One was a children’s hospital with a psych ward, and one was mental facility for troubled teens. But because she was autistic no one wanted her.
That was just one of many such nights. It ultimately took the intervention of her state senator putting pressure on child services to get her daughter into the extended care facility that she desperately needed. She is soon to turn 21 and will age out of that facility. She still has the behaviors and there is nowhere she can go because there are no adult facilities in Indiana for autistic individuals with aggressive behaviors.
Her mother could handle her aggression when she was girl, but once she grew to be a teen it became more than she could by herself. Now she’s a full-grown adult. In four months, she will leave a lockdown facility where she has been cared for the last 5 years by full time, 24 hour a day staff backed up by a crisis team. She will be returned to the care of her mother who is supposed to provide the same care, while caring for her severely autistic 21 y/o son, by herself. The psychiatrist at the faculty she’s at now has stated she will, for her own safety and the safety others, need full time institutionalized care at a faculty capable of handling someone with her violence issues. That all ends in 4 months. Her mother is scared to death.
> When you make an accusation like that, you should have some facts, actual percentages, not your own perception. <
Unfortunately, giving actual percentages is not possible. I suppose one could look up what percentage of cops have been fired for cause. But that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about cops who for one reason or another do not act professionally on a regular basis.
Individual perceptions is all that’s really possible to discuss. And as the old saying goes, your mileage will vary. Different people may have different, yet very honest perspectives.
In a way, it’s like discussing bad teachers. What percentage of teachers are “bad”? It’s a perception thing.
Don’t paint the profession with such a broad brush, it varies by jurisdiction. With some jurisdictions police can’t arrest someone for disorderly conduct unless there is a citizen willing to sign a complaint, police can’t be the complainant. For example, if some knucklehead walks up to an officer and calls him vulgar names, that isn’t a crime.
There are elements to every crime that have to be met in order to be charged for that crime. In the case of obstructing a police officer doing his job, if the elements of that crime are met, the officer makes an arrest for obstruction, and clearly articulates those elements in his reports, where is the problem? If those elements of the crime aren't present, it is an unlawful arrest, get a lawyer and sue.
“That said, we are absolutely NOT dealing with mental health in this country. Hospitals don’t want them, cops don’t know what to do with them, and judges put them back out on the street as fast as they come in.”
Most notably starting with the activist movie “The Snake Pit” ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040806/ ) mental health treatment became a civil rights issue.
This was not entirely misplaced as people were frequently committed to mental institutions by powerful families like the Kennedy’s. Joe Kennedy had a lobotomy performed on his daughter Rosemary and latter day writers suspect this was to cover up sexual abuse on the part of Joe Kennedy.
The system was devoid of checks and balances and people could be imprisoned for life without charge, without ever seeing a courtroom, and then they could be experimented upon (lobotomies, electroshock, LSD, etc.) without consent.
The problem is that the pendulum swung so far that violent sexual predators are now being released when they should be confined.
The trick is to pull that pendulum back to a more rational place while ensuring that the civil rights of people detained in state custody are protected.
We also want to make sure no one is ever sent to an insane asylum simply for not being a liberal.
Agreed..
My Gramps was a retired cop. He used to say that there’s no such a thing as a bad cop... What you have is a bad command structure.
I illustrated this point long ago, with a very lengthy post., but it needs to be posted again;
The cop answers to a senior cop.
The senior cop answers to a sergeant.
The sergeant answers to a lieutenant.
The lieutenant answers to a captain.
The captain answers to an assistant chief.
The assistant chief answers to the chief.
The chief answers to the mayor.
The mayor answers to the city council.
All of these people not only tolerate, but accept this type of behavior.
Now, the city council answers to the people, as does the mayor.
And yet, somehow, these people keep getting re-elected.
So, who ultimately is responsible for the mis-behavior of the cops?
I'm trying to find the original story but here is one. No it's still going on and people are complaining about being locked up against their will in a Nervous Hospital.
Apparently, the cops have had to deal with his violent rages, before.
I am not "pro" cop in all situations and would rather have nothing to do with them.
That said, I only know what is in this article and it doesn't appear the cops did anything wrong.
The only way to keep him from hurting himself was to restrain him, which they did for as long as they could.
Suicide is the right call and the family will, probably, hit the ghetto lottery.
I absolutely disagree with him on that.
The rest ... he had a valid point.
Now, the city council answers to the people, as does the mayor.
Theoretically ...
“My Gramps was a retired cop. He used to say that there’s no such a thing as a bad cop.”
He was wrong when he said it. There have always been bad cops because cops are people. They are not and never were the infallible and perfect demigods that people used to think they were.
There are even videos of cops arresting people solely for resisting arrest. How is that even possible?
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Within reason police have the right to detain and even restrain people without arresting them. If the subject resists detention then the resistance is a criminal offense. Reasons for detention can be as simple as protection of the police officer while he/she investigates or maintaining access to a person of interest until he/she determines whether a primary crime was committed and who committed it.
But they remain on the force because of what I listed...bad command structure that ends with the people....
Something I have observed is that there are fewer problems with police abuse in states with Constitutional carry.
On the other side of the coin the worst cops are in solidly Democrat cities and states. Where they hold your rights in contempt.
And make no mistake: these are bad cops. They are each individually responsible for upholding their oaths regardless of what upper management wants.
Just the same as the guy delivering mail at Auschwicz was prosecuted and imprisoned even though he was just following orders.
The cops are lucky. Isaiah Trammell wasn’t a black guy.
I am sympathetic to the police getting called re: out of control, young adult autistic men, but their treatment of him per the video is obviously inexcusable.
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