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So here’s the pattern. The family of a person with psychiatric disability decides that they need help. The disabled person isn’t taking their medicine. They are perhaps seeming violent or might become violent. The family calls the police to ask for help getting the person to the hospital. Police arrive. The person with the disability …
ACLU releases graphic video of 2012 police shooting of mentally-ill black man in Michigan. More than 45 shots http://t.co/rNYQN2HHZM — Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) October 27, 2014 Milton Hall stole coffee & refused to drop knife. officers fired 47 shots, 11 hit. All cleared by local PD & feds http://t.co/hxIRQX2gfb — Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) October 27, …
Today’s stories about compliance take a different spin. Thankfully, no one is being shot or tasered by the police in these examples. Two men have, however, been involuntarily committed for what they might do in the future. One is an English professor. His case has not made the news but he was involuntarily committed and …