Posted on 06/04/2024 11:32:29 AM PDT by DFG
Disturbing footage shows a terrified autistic 19-year-old desperately asking cops to listen to him before he hit his head repeatedly and died in custody.
Isaiah Trammell, was taunted, belittled and threatened by nine guards as he begged for his medication at the Montgomery County Jail in Ohio in March, 2023.
In surveillance videos obtained by The Columbus Dispatch, officers are seen telling the autistic man he was 'ridiculous,' 'embarrassing' and 'acting like an a**.'
Trammell was strapped into a restraint chair twice and threatened a third time if he did not calm down.
Unable to calm himself, Trammell proceeded to bang his head on the cell door as he desperately screamed: 'Let me out'
No one listened as Trammell asked for his medications, a phone call and a blanket, according to the Dispatch.
Less than 10 hours after he arrived in jail, Trammell was being taken to the hospital in an ambulance.
Trammell died three days later, with the coroner ruling it a suicide.
The young man had been banging his head repeatedly before he was booked and throughout the night.
He told police head-banging was 'the only way I know to get rid of the crazy in my head.'
Trammell's mother Brandy Abner told The Columbus Patch that Trammel had a history of banging his head as a coping mechanism.
Previously, his family had called for help and he had stared in the hospital for days.
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State's have already given up their involvement. They're the ones who closed the psych centers and dropped the residents onto the local communities. That's why problems like this are occurring.
One act like this destroys the kind acts of a thousand LEO’s.
Applause.
Obviously the state has some authority in all this but they are not really who is guiding all of this.
Years ago Napoleon got the net, today you can sue people for not recognizing that you are really a female space platypus.
When the pervs were let out of the closet it wasnt because someone was intimidated by a few fruits marching.
For that matter, at least from the 60s forward, protests had no effect on anything other than to give those who wanted to make changes cover.
All of these conversations when these things happen to these people is actually a conversation about rights. When the nations (world?) experts become involved and do things like change the DSM that gives legal cover for some people to push the boundaries and no longer leaves it at just a state level without a lot of law suits, money, and time.
I agree, some things should be at the state level and some should be federal but look how the whole issue with rights for fruit flies became a federal problem. If a physician says that the amount of rocks and dirt that someone eats isnt a problem for them then I cant stop them and if their guardian feels its that persons right to eat rocks or if they are their own guardian then I and the organization I work for could be sued for violating someones rights.
Now expand that to someone that has not come to the attention of the system and is still considered competent even if somewhat erratic or eccentric. As ridiculous as it sounds, whether I can feed someone in a program canned raviolis tomorrow depends on whether someone like Fauci declares it to be damaging to someones health and where the lawyers want to run with that.
Eccentric or sick, this is doctors and attorneys creating rights and or cover for politicians pushing agendas, it isnt any longer just up to an individual state and it certainly isnt the common sense opinion of the people in that state.
That also takes this conversation to a point that I am no longer qualified to speak to really and my own health is such that I dont think I can have much in the way of anything bordering on cogent conversation anymore today.
(I can try again tomorrow maybe if Ive been too opaque and confusing.)
Despite the claims, he didnt and it wasnt his fault.
The states didnt bother to set up a proper system and the funding isnt there to do anything correctly, at least not with all the non-sense and corruptions taking a bite.
Now its much more. This whole thing is tottering on feet comprised of the primarily sub 85IQ petty criminals doing first line support working on directions from negligent guardians while being poked at by attorneys.
All I know from my own experience for 25 years, is that when NY State closed psych centers, and put nut cases back on the street, they ended up in the prison system, and more prisons had to be built because of it. Fast forward 20 years, and the same party that pushed the mentally ill from psych centers, are now closing multiple prisons, and pushing convicted felons onto the street before they've completed their court-ordered sentences. Both times it was done to save money despite what the governments of those States said, all the while causing even bigger problems in this country's communities. And NY is just one State that did it. How many other blue States did the same thing, and innocent people have paid for it? Just look at how Joe's open border has affected and destroyed people's lives these past four years? Nobody is protecting the innocent people. The criminally insane and criminals are being protected, and coddled instead.
In the case of this young man who died, the police should have never been called to respond. They are not specialists in the treatment of the mentally ill. The local government that is supposed to have services in place to take care of these types of situations failed this kid, along with whoever called the cops to begin with. Whoever has treated this kid in the past, and repeatedly put him back out on the street each and every time he's had a head-banging episode is also guilty.
The most important thing above all else, of course, is that every single officer got home safely that night.
“I presume he had medications at home that could have been used.”
I bet one of them was marijuana and it was Indica. He was probably also on SSRI’s. You can’t treat someone who is banging their head on the walls to “get the crazy out”. We have an entire generation that believes they are too mentally ill to do anything but scroll on their phone all day and smoke Weed.
He was arrested because he was banging his head on the walls.
Hello again Ma’am😀
I absolutely agree. Sometimes I wonder - and I have always been afraid to ask, I must confess - what the benefit was supposed to have been in the closing of mental institutions - whether be it financial or otherwise.
I had read that a few States were doing so, but I failed to make any sense of it, I‘m sorry 🙁
Some people with mental issues are dangerous indeed, yes, but many others just need help, professional help 🙁
I believe young Mr. Trammell was one of the latter…
This dreadful story has „hit home“ for me as well, since I am on the autistic spectrum as well, though I‘m not as severely stricken as young Mr. Trammell obviously was.
May his poor soul find peace in the arms of our Lord and Savior. Amen.
✝️🙏🏻
I’m sure some of the DEI officers working in the Universities are “good” people too. The problem isn’t which humans are in the role. The problem is the role.
Stupid, brutish, pig-headed, pigs.
Very sorry, but are you sure?
When I lived in Virginia, I once had an encounter with a very fine, helpful and friendly officer, and I‘m not sure whether he really was an exception…
P.S.: the officers in this video, however, terribly mishandled the situation, of course.
With a tragic ending…🙁
Yes, very much so, and a bracelet, which you have been mentioning, could definitely have prevented this tragedy.
Over here in Germany, most people with chronic disabilities - especially those whose handicap is not immediately obvious, for instance the blind or the paralyzed, are wearing such bracelets. Some even have a little brooch-like electronic device with them or on their necks, which, if you press a button on it, will automatically alert medical help.
My father had such a little machine when he fell into bad health, and once I even had to use it to call the ambulance.
There are some and then there are those like the guys I was raised up with. Goons.
There are some and then there are those like the guys I was raised up with. Goons.
I guess we’ll see. But another poster posted about an acclaimed actor who banged his head in response to abuse. This man said he didn’t want to live, and when my daughter was suicidal and suffering neurological symptoms after she was poisoned and nothing was making sense, she also tried banging her head before I stopped her. I think it’s a response to pain in the mind.
A person who has never been through trauma or experienced the things that the brain can do to a person could well attribute to drugs what the actual brain is doing.
Good point.
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