So they're not sorry for arresting her for shoplifting.
Free cokes and candy bars for everyone!
Just grab what you want, right?
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She has dementia. Sheesh."
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"We" know that, now, after the fact.
How would the arresting officer(s) know that?
They also need to be clinicians with the ability to diagnose someone as having a sound mind and body before arresting them? Quite the paradox that would be.
now, if the allegation here is true regarding mocking the person getting hurt during the arrest they performed, then disciplinary action is absolutely in order.
My father in law had rapid onset Alzheimer’s. He went from mildly forgetful to babbling, incoherent, not knowing who we were — in 30 days. The last time he was out on his own, he got lost and wound up in a doctor’s office, saying that he had to be at my house to talk to the contractors. Cops were called. In some places, I guess they would have just shot him. Some people on this thread seem to think that would be OK. In my FIL’s case, the cops took him home. In the rare cases when the disease jumps through multiple stages in weeks not years, it is hard to know when a patient needs to be confined. We took the keys away in April. He was dead in October.
I usually support the police.
It was pretty clear from the way she was acting that she had significant cognitive impairment.
Wandering dementia patients is not an uncommon issue that the police have to deal with.
So, you think it’s OK for a 240 pound muscle bound gorilla to body slam an 80 pound 73 year old woman just because he wears a badge, huh!
Hope no municipality is ever stupid enough to give you one!!