Airport Security's role in the shooting of BiPolar man??-

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This article in the Toronto Star, gives abit more insight into the incident that occurred in Miami- But also raises the troubling question of why a man who clearly appeared agitated was allowed on the flight to begin with-
Perhaps Airport security, as well as those who greet passengers played a pivotal role in the tragedy that unfolded and ended what one might call "The Trip from and to Hell"-

It also may offer a possible explanation as to why the man was 'off his meds' and why his wife felt compelled to get him home ASAP.


...snip.... The couple had been returning from a stressful vacation, relatives said. Alpizar's wife, Anne Buechner, had been robbed in Peru, losing her wallet, passport, laptop computer and cell phone, according to her sister-in-law, Kelley Buechner of Milwaukee.

"That really upset Rigo," Kelley Buechner said in an interview at her home, using the family's nickname for Alpizar, a Costa Rican native who became an American citizen a few years ago.

Chief Willie Marshall, who leads the Miami-Dade criminal investigations unit, said homicide detectives had interviewed Anne and that she had told them her husband had been diagnosed as bipolar roughly a decade ago.

She provided us "insight about what was going on with her husband," he said. "She told us he had not taken his medication recently."

Kelley Buechner said she had never heard that her brother-in-law was bipolar, only that he had had "a chemical imbalance" for which he took vitamins. She said she had never known Alpizar to stop taking his medication before and wondered whether it had been stolen along with other items in Peru.
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http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1134082212295&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724

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1. Passenger: Alpizar Was Agitated at Gate

I posted about questioning airport security yesterday. Pretty much ignored.

The passenger shot to death by air marshals in Miami had been agitated before boarding the plane and was singing ``Go Down Moses'' as his wife tried to calm him, a fellow passenger said Thursday.

``The wife was telling him, 'Calm down. Let other people get on the plane. It will be all right,''' said Alan Tirpak.

``I thought maybe he's afraid of flying,'' Tirpak said.

Tirpak took his seat, and Rigoberto Alpizar, 44, and his wife eventually boarded the plane. Then, a few minutes before the plane was to pull away, Alpizar bolted up the aisle and onto the jetway, where two air marshals confronted him.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5467432,00.html

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2. thanks, i missed your post yesterday... sure

seems like it didn't have to have come to what it did- All this garbage about safety...
and avoiding terrorism, seems to me there was indeed a bunch of terror that went on during that ill fated event- and there was one death.

Odd, how the 'shoe-bomber' wasn't killed- and he was 'in flight' when he supposedly DID take actions that threatened the people on the plane- But this man, who fled the plane he didn't want to be on was gunned down...

But it seems the illusion of 'safety' is one this nation is willing to pay anything for.-

sad.