Reply #29: I have a sister who has mental illness.

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We have had situation where she totally freaks out and babbles incoherently and makes threats. She also sometimes would refuse to take her meds. That's the thing with the mentally ill that a lot of people don't realize. To stay stable they need to take their meds but a lot of times they don't take them because they are mentally ill and like my sister think people are trying to poison or that somehow its part of a plot against them. My sister is bedridden now. I am sure glad she is not well enough to travel because she would be one who could totally freak out. I don't know all the facts of this story. I would be interested in knowing if lethal force was the only option, if the marshall could have shot him in the leg, the shoulder, the arm, and not kill him dead. I guess because I have a mentally ill sister and know how she can act this story unnerves me.