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To: Bulwyf

Thanks for your service. I’ll ask you the same question, were you there? I will tell you up front that I was not. Who is the person that said the cops threw him face first onto the ground?

Can you show me (I’m not saying it doesn’t exist) an eyewitness statement that says these cops “threw him face first onto the ground.”

Of all the media reports I have read, I have yet to find one witness who said the cops threw this kid face first to the ground.

The only comment I have found about the use of force in this case was by the sheriff who said there was no excessive force.

I did read one article which said he was accompanied by a home health aid. But there is no statement from the home health aid, that I have found that says the cops slammed him to the ground.

I have seen headlines that say that he was “suffocated by police.” What kind of BS is that?

I’ve been dealing with mentally ill people for nearly 30 years. Sometimes they fight. Sometimes you have no choice. Many times the mental health facilities (physicians) that treat them call us (nearly every day where I work, I had 2 yesterday) to subdue them when they cannot talk them down.

Again, I am saying, the police may have done everything right and this young man died. It is tragic. To blame the police immediately before all the facts are revealed is irresponsible.


35 posted on 02/22/2013 7:04:29 AM PST by Cap'n Crunch
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To: Cap'n Crunch

If the officers did everything right, the young man would not have died.

It is known that restraining someone and leaving them prone for too long results in asphyxiation. By restraining this man and leaving him prone, they caused his death.

Anyone who looks at this man can tell he has Down Syndrome, which is a genetic abnormality, not a mental disorder.

Indeed, no evidence has been presented, other than the word of the government employees responsible for his death, that he was violent.

The word of a government employee should always be treated with due credulity unless it is verified with substantive evidence.


41 posted on 02/22/2013 10:19:39 PM PST by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Cap'n Crunch

They did everything right and the obviously retarded kid died?

Good lord man.

He was in their custody.

Obviously they did not do everything right.


62 posted on 03/25/2013 1:09:26 AM PDT by wardaddy (wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstrucbtion in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
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