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I'm not digging psychiatric patients being sloughed off onto an incarceration system ill equipped to care for them. Psych patients should go straight to a locked ward where there are lots of nice drugs and very big orderlies.
1 posted on 04/02/2021 12:40:34 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

He might be bipolar


2 posted on 04/02/2021 12:43:47 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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If there was any question a standard 72 hour psychiatric hold could’ve been placed on the guy. I’m reserving an opinion until more is known.

CC


3 posted on 04/02/2021 12:45:30 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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And I read the article

Turns out he was schizophrenic

Terrible and no real way for everyone to know


4 posted on 04/02/2021 12:46:46 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Good lord... yet another article where they have a quote referring to him as a “gentle giant”. Is some strange disease infecting America’s “gentle giants” causing them to become overcome with violent derangement?


5 posted on 04/02/2021 12:56:41 AM PDT by House Atreides
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Non-possible because pot is never associated with mental health challenges.


7 posted on 04/02/2021 1:12:17 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Trans Undocumented. Anti Woke Supremacist. Covid Abortionist.)
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It was the leftwads who shut down the mental hospitals with their locked wards, big orderlies, and medically appropriate drugs, and threw the mentally ill out into the streets to fend for themselves.

Jailers are not psychiatrists, or even psychiatric orderlies.

In this town, there is no place to confine the mentally ill other than the county jail.


10 posted on 04/02/2021 1:17:28 AM PDT by dsc (Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.)
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Autopsy showed no injuries and no blunt force trauma.


14 posted on 04/02/2021 2:57:45 AM PDT by PAR35
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It’s odd that most of these situations begin with someone breaking the law.

They should pass a law against people breaking the law.


18 posted on 04/02/2021 4:27:07 AM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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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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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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One less Gentle Giant.


30 posted on 04/02/2021 5:54:25 AM PDT by euram
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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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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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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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We had a similar situation in my county, but the cops took him straight to jail instead of the psych unit and he had a known history of mental illness. Poor kid ended up dying of thirst because essentially the paid jail healthcare workers and jailers weren’t checking on him.


45 posted on 04/02/2021 11:54:28 AM PDT by shotgun (welfare)
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