Just read the stories on this. Damn shame. I pray I never have to hear one of my boys screaming/moaning “Daddy” as they suffer in pain. Kelly is in a way better place. Where were you “Daddy?” Your son had issues and you knew it. Why didn’t you get him off the streets? This really pisses me off. How could this guy allow his son to live on the streets?
He was 27 years old. What could his father do?
“How could this guy allow his son to live on the streets?”
Kelly Thomas was an adult who was mentally ill. There is very little legally that a parent can do once their child hits age 18. They can no longer force him to take his medication. They can’t institutionalize him unless he is homicidal or suicidal and that is only for a short 72 hour evaluation. They can’t chain him inside their home. “Your son had issues and you knew it”.. the family did know he was ill but from previous articles that I read.. their hands were bound. What is very sad is I’m sure the family may have felt that their son would have eventually died on the streets but not being beaten to death by the police.
How could this guy allow his son to live on the streets?
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I do not know this particular story, but I can tell you that once an offspring reaches majority, the law does not permit a parent to keep him off the streets, even though the vagrant is not capable of making rational decisions for himself.
There was a time in this country when such people were housed in institutions for their own good.
His mom got a restraining order because he tried to choke her, that's how.
Just read the stories on this. Damn shame. I pray I never have to hear one of my boys screaming/moaning “Daddy” as they suffer in pain. Kelly is in a way better place. Where were you “Daddy?” Your son had issues and you knew it. Why didn’t you get him off the streets? This really pisses me off. How could this guy allow his son to live on the streets?
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The leftist laws do not permit anyone to coerce the mentally ill into doing anything they don’t want to do. A parent has no ability to take an unwilling 18 or over child home if they don’t want to go. There is no loving family protection of mentally ill, just caseworkers who frankly, go off duty.
This is one of the major sins perpetrated on the mentally ill community.
So you're blaming the father? How do you know the father didn't do all he could to help his son, which I suspect he did?
Our laws are such that they protect the individual's rights and unfortunately in most cases,the family members are unable to break thru the bureaucracy required to get a family member the help they need.
In a nutshell, such laws, while indeed are flawed, are designed to protect YOU from unlawful imprisonment or hospitalization simply because your family thinks you are crazy........
“How could this guy allow his son to live on the streets?”
His family tried repeatedly. Kelly Thomas was an adult, and it is very hard to get someone put into a mental hospital if they refuse to go.