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7 Officers Fired After in-Custody Death of Black Man Marvin Scott With 2 Ounces of Pot
Newsweek ^ | 01 Apr 2021 | Daniel VAillareal

Posted on 04/02/2021 12:40:34 AM PDT by blueplum

The Collin County Sheriff's Office has fired seven detention officers involved in the death of 26-year-old Marvin Scott III...

...After being arrested in the parking lot of an Allen, Texas outlet mall for smoking marijuana, police found him "incoherent," according to Scott family attorney, Lee Merritt. Police then took Scott to the Texas Health Presbyterian hospital nearby. There, doctors found him fit for incarceration, WFAA reported.

Once inside the Collin County jail, Scott underwent several mental health episodes...

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cannabis; donutwatch; lawenforcement; marijuana; marvinscott; pot; rangers; texas; wod
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To: House Atreides

Gentle giant = Large, violent career criminal

(Akin to the aspiring rapper who was good to his mother)


21 posted on 04/02/2021 5:23:42 AM PDT by twister881
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To: pepsionice

Where do you get that number from???


22 posted on 04/02/2021 5:24:49 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: blueplum

Hospitals won’t keep them. It’s why we have so many mass killings. No one wants to house the crazies


23 posted on 04/02/2021 5:25:20 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: palmer

“So does smoking pot help with psychological illnesses?”

Makes it worse many times.


24 posted on 04/02/2021 5:26:15 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: palmer

“So does smoking pot help with psychological illnesses?”

I posted nothing to suggest it does, and I am aware of no evidence that it does.


25 posted on 04/02/2021 5:48:05 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: 9YearLurker

The 3.5-million number?

https://sardaa.org/resources/about-schizophrenia/

On assuming that marijuana use increases (as states legalize it), and is relative to the 3.5-million...my own assumption.


26 posted on 04/02/2021 5:48:15 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: moovova

While watching the Chauvin trial this week I was thinking that same thing. Shameful that our media, public authorities and popular culture refuse to acknowledge personal responsibility. Lives are being wasted by this foolish mindset of omnipresent and inescapable oppression.


27 posted on 04/02/2021 5:49:12 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: blueplum

Lee Merrit is a clone of Al Sharpton.....😡
Would be helpful if the “media” would specify exactly why 7 people were fired trying to deal with a raving maniac spitting “gentle giant” 🙄


28 posted on 04/02/2021 5:50:55 AM PDT by Jrabbit
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To: pepsionice

There’s not a disease advocacy organization in the country that doesn’t come up with wildly exaggerated stats in support of their raison d’etre.

Just look at the typically overreaching definition that the DSM offers for diagnosis on their front page.


29 posted on 04/02/2021 5:52:28 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: blueplum

One less Gentle Giant.


30 posted on 04/02/2021 5:54:25 AM PDT by euram
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To: Does so

I have decided to be civil.
Pot does not cause any psychiatric disorder, especially schizophrenia.
You are born with schizophrenia.
Marijuana may enhance the effects of it, but on its own does not cause it.

Another poster said that if he was just left alone to smoke his dope this would not have happened. The poster was being sarcastic.

But, it does not matter how you feel about pot, the statement is factual, and if he was not driving or bothering anyone, why was he arrested for simple possession?


31 posted on 04/02/2021 5:57:08 AM PDT by joe fonebone (Free Beer Tomorrow)
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To: blueplum

he should have done the gummies ..


32 posted on 04/02/2021 6:05:28 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd ((>> M A G A << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: Made In The USA

Personal responsibility is racist.

(Actually, I think I read that somewhere in an article. Sheesh.)


33 posted on 04/02/2021 6:14:45 AM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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To: House Atreides
Don't know about the gentle but he is big....


Marvin David Scott III is seen in a booking photo

34 posted on 04/02/2021 6:48:12 AM PDT by deport ( )
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To: napscoordinator

ACLU badgered Reagan to shut down mental hospitals.


35 posted on 04/02/2021 7:26:41 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: blueplum

He wasn’t arrested for smoking marijuana. He was detained for smoking marijuana. He was arrested for having 2 ounces of pot in his possession.


36 posted on 04/02/2021 7:39:04 AM PDT by hirn_man
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To: joe fonebone

You know what, if he had just smoked his pot at home, none of this would have happened. We largely prohibit drinking alcohol in public, and certainly public drunkenness, and that’s a good thing for public order and a civil society. Personally, I don’t want to have to confront big, drugged-out, mentally-ill black men while out doing my business. Been there, done that.


37 posted on 04/02/2021 8:00:35 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: palmer
So does smoking pot help with psychological illnesses?

A few - many vets with PTSD find cannabis effective at preventing nocturnal dream/nightmares. Many cancer patients find cannabis effective at reducing anxiety as well as reducing nausea.

38 posted on 04/02/2021 8:01:47 AM PDT by corkoman
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To: blueplum
Out of the blue our Friend's Stepson had an Psychiatric “episode”.

He was in his early 20’s and just flipped out. Up to that point in his life he was perfectly fine. Worked, had a nice Girlfriend and acted every bit normal. I knew the Kid since he was four Years Old.

He starting flipping out, threatening his younger Brother and the Cops were called. He had a Pocket Knife in his hand and was ranting and raving. He was lucky he didn't get shot on the spot.

He was admitted to a Psychiatric Hospital for six Months.
We think he was diagnosed with Schizophrenia but due to HIPPA we only know what he has told us. He is doing better with Medication, but we are always waiting for a recurrence. Very sad situation all around.

39 posted on 04/02/2021 8:14:28 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Don't blame me, I Voted for the guy who actually Won the 2020 Presidential Election...)
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To: Uncle Miltie; blueplum; Vendome; pepsionice; NobleFree

At the bottom of YOUR article:

How to grow medical Marijuana...


40 posted on 04/02/2021 10:57:36 AM PDT by Does so (The Media is the enemy of the people...Trial lawyers close behind...)
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