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In reply to the discussion: Let the violence begin. [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)and in those four hours alone there were ten shootings, five stabbings and over 25 medical aid calls, just for Heartland dispatch alone for San Diego County... and that is not the most busy of the EMS dispatch centers in town. I forgot the few car accidents, one of which involved Mercy Air.
Did all of them have to do with it?
I am not fully discounting it... just saying it is highly improbable....
As to the media, there are certain things that we used to be able to talk about in a nooz story, but can't any more. For example, if this gentleman was referred to over police radio traffic as 51-50 (or your county equivalent)... that is psychiatric case... with very few exceptions, count them with the fingers of ONE hand, you cannot put in a news story psychiatric issue. One of those major exceptions was when the guy behind Cony 2012 went off and naked in the street and was promptly taken to the Psych ward on a 51-50 hold.
If this had happened at night, and there were no witnesses... as in over twenty people who saw him in his jay bird suit... nope, the media would not have told you he was taken to the hospital on a psychiatric hold.
Yup, actually that is one of the consequences of HIPA laws.
So you may come across a few walls... just as an FYI.