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warmfeet

(3,321 posts)
24. This country gave up on the mentally ill
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 07:45 PM
Mar 2019

decades ago.

Very few people seem to give a shit.

Caring people need to take this back and turn it around.

I thought choke holds were banned . N/T flotsam Mar 2019 #1
That officer needs to be fired janterry Mar 2019 #2
Before they were finished (the original male had been kneeing him), 3 more men rushed in there.n/t Judi Lynn Mar 2019 #21
I don't think that they didn't have the strength. xmas74 Apr 2019 #37
That was a swat team janterry Apr 2019 #38
It still goes back to the other poster saying the women didn't have the strength xmas74 Apr 2019 #40
This is a crime against humanity malaise Mar 2019 #3
He was in a cell. Cold War Spook Mar 2019 #4
That's the first thing that came to my mind too! WTF???? Quixote1818 Mar 2019 #16
Jebus. Other than just not falling to the ground, he wasn't resisting. marble falls Mar 2019 #5
I think if cops come INTO your cell to beat you up and torture you, you have every right to resist Quixote1818 Mar 2019 #17
And it looked like a padded cell, too. Everybody knew he was ill. And then in the end ... marble falls Mar 2019 #18
What were the flashes of blue light? Arkansas Granny Mar 2019 #6
I think tazers? janterry Mar 2019 #9
I wondered if someone was clobbering him with a flashlight which went on accidentally. n/t Judi Lynn Mar 2019 #19
Reading at the link provided by janterry, he was tazed several times as well as beaten. Arkansas Granny Mar 2019 #26
Looks like the aftermath involved justice janterry Mar 2019 #7
oh good! Demovictory9 Mar 2019 #8
from the article: awarded 1.4 million, three were fired Demovictory9 Mar 2019 #11
Sounds like he got $240,000.00 out of 1.4 million? bluestarone Mar 2019 #20
thanks for the link Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2019 #34
Did the man become mentally ill before or after he was put in that cell? defacto7 Mar 2019 #10
They didn't seem to have any purpose other than punching him. demigoddess Mar 2019 #12
there is no they. it was one person Kurt V. Mar 2019 #33
they- the authorities. they-the people that let all those people beat him. demigoddess Apr 2019 #36
A mentally ill man made noise in front of the entire country scrutineer Mar 2019 #13
Za-zinnng!!! Geechie Mar 2019 #23
My psychotic son was restrained and tazed twice. Thunderbeast Mar 2019 #14
My son with autism has had these meltdown where we've had to 5150 him kimbutgar Mar 2019 #15
This happens all the time to the mentally ill in police custody SHRED Mar 2019 #22
The most disturbing part of all is.... KY_EnviroGuy Mar 2019 #28
This country gave up on the mentally ill warmfeet Mar 2019 #24
Yes. Yes. Yes.nt zentrum Mar 2019 #25
Did anyone see any "good Cops" in that video? n/t spike jones Mar 2019 #27
i did . 3 women. that guy was out of control Kurt V. Mar 2019 #30
I assume the "mentally ill" ones were the crowd that rushed into the room to beat on the poor guy. world wide wally Mar 2019 #29
I give up. 47of74 Mar 2019 #31
Watch that again. 1 man, completely out of control, while 3 women have to intervene. Kurt V. Mar 2019 #32
Intervene? LanternWaste Apr 2019 #41
So one of the female officers is saying, "get on the ground, get on the ground' Akacia Mar 2019 #35
Mentally ill, he shouldn't be in a cell Raine Apr 2019 #39
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