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Holy hell, the police killed **another** person and now they are rioting in philly... Have they tried not being murderers maybe?
@amerika He was having a bipolar episode and had called the hospital to have him taken to a mental institution at the time.
OK, so first fact:
He's crazy.
Next, we have to realize that crazy people are dangerous. Their brains don't work right.
Then we have to ask: was he armed or acting in a threatening manner?
@amerika none of that was in question. No one is denying that he is "crazy" or even dangerous. The issue people have is that we pay these cops to deal with dangerous crazy people and we dont pay them to shoot them. the truth is there are crazy dangerous people in other countries all the time and more often than not the cops do their job and are able to (usually) subdue such people and they them the help they need. We expect the same from our cops. In fact many police in many nations dont even have guns to ensure that isnt even an option for them.
That's nice, but in these areas, you need to be armed.
Try having a 1500 mile border with Mexico.
Even more, we DO pay these cops to shoot people who are threats to (1) cops (2) other people and (3) their own families.
There's not much you can do with crazy when it acts crazy and refuses to be arrested quietly.
Clearly you have never worked much with people with mental disorders because thats a whole heap of ignorance and far from accurate.
The vast majority of people with mental disorders who can afford it and have the means tend to seek help and ultimately take what treatment works for them. Yes some people do go off their meds, but they are a minority.
Probably a classic case of ignorance coupled with the fact that your more likely to notice or remember the cases that go off their meds meanwhile those who actually take their meds you'd probably never even knew had a mental disorder to begin with.
