When his mother was called, she immediately said that it no doubt was her son. It begs the question how many of his friends, teachers, fellow students and neighbors knew that this lunatic was dangerous and did nothing. A simple visit by the police may have changed history.
There is often to do. I have a lot of bipolar friends. They will be having major problems and the families BEG hospitals to take them in, and get refused.
Whoops. That’s nothing you CAN do.
If they had “done something”, what might that have looked like? We are so concerned about our 4th Amendment rights these days that there are bound to be incidents like this and I’m willing to bet this won’t be the last one.
A simple visit by the police may have changed history.
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... and what would the police say & do on such a visit?
What do you want? Lock people up because someone says they are crazy?