“This guy should’ve been hauled in for a mental health check.”
A slippery slope. If the Police start knocking on the door of everyone “accused” of being “threatening” and hauling them downtown for forced mental health checks, we will ALL be screaming about their storm trooper tactics. These forced “mental health checks” will become part of our “records”, be used to deny gun permits, deny employment, who knows what else. This issue is much like when an obviously mentally ill person commits a crime. We all want to know why he wasn’t institutionalized beforehand. However, when they start rounding up everyone who is reported to be acting strangely, trust me, we won’t like that either. I’m am not aware of a simple answer.
There was more than enough documentation to have the perp hauled in.