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Posted on 04/06/2026 7:26:27 PM PDT by bitt
"He immediately opened the door and struck the clinician and an officer who was outside the door."
Police "reforms" in Boston replaced cops with mental health clinicians and social workers, and on Saturday one of those clinicians was attacked by a delusional man wielding a sword. The suspect, who has not been publicly identified, attacked the clinician as well as police officers with the sword. Cops responded by shooting and killing the suspect.
The incident took place near the Northeastern University campus on Saturday morning in Boston. Officers were responding to a 911 call about four people armed with guns and the caller was in the apartment building. After officers arrived at 212 Hemenway Street and located the disturbance they called in a mental health professional with the Boston's BEST program, according to Mass Daily News.
The program, in which mental health professionals ride along with cops to de-escalate tense situations, has been running since 2011. The EMS clinician deployed to the scene spoke to the man for 45 minutes through the door before the suspect pushed open the door and attacked.
"He immediately opened the door and struck the clinician and an officer who was outside the door. He was armed with some type of sword, stabbing the officer in the arm and knocking the EMS clinician to the ground," Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox said. "One or more officers, which is under investigation at this time, fired a taser and weapon at the individual, bringing the person to a halt."
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The next time, this’ll work...
If I had some do-gooder "clinician" talking to me for 45 minutes; I'd have snapped too.
I don’t know if it’s really a failure. After all, only one cop was injured, not two.
It’a teachers that are supposed to be able to disarm people.
You can’t do “suicide by social worker”.
Clinician traumatized —and gets lifetime pension.
So it played out just as anyone with 1 brain cell to rub together knew it would.
Best remembered example by Indy Jones. IIRC Ford was running temp of 103 so ad libbed the shot.
Oh Michael Savage....please pick up the white courtesy phone!
I think the cops should not have intervened. Just let the clinician deal with it. They think they can do better, so let’s see them do it. I am eager to see how it works out.
Almost worked. Try it again.
PoPo have Known how quickly a Knife Attacker can inflict a Deadly wound.
A 21 foot distance is as close as one allows before Self defense is applied.
Obviously Not in this Case.
One word: Mayor Wu
Using multiple venn diagrams, a liberal committee decides
police are replaceable with disposable social workers.
Root article nearly bereft of information.
Hint: If you have been ‘struck by a sword’ and are still with us, it’s a fake unsharpened sword, or the person holding it is a complete moron.
Sounds reasonable, like a twofer.
Just darn, that didn’t work very well.
Why didn’t they just shoot the sword out of his hand? Sheesh!
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