with what... a pen knife??? damn
Posted on 04/29/2015 3:50:17 PM PDT by Rusty0604
A Houston Community College police officer has survived an assassination attempt after being stabbed by her assailant 14 times. The officer was saved by civilians who stepped in and stopped the attacker. The attacker told investigators he did this to get back at police for their brutality. A spokesman from the family said it might be related to the Baltimore riots.
Officer April Pikes remains in critical condition at Houston’s Ben Taub Hospital, a public relations official at the Houston Police Department said to Breitbart Texas. Her alleged attacker, Jeremiah M. Matthews, 23, was pulled off of her by a group of men while he was stabbing her and attempting to grab her pistol,...
. One of the witnesses, Abe Baker, who helped stop the attack said, “I saw him on her, just stabbing her.”
“I wasn’t really thinking,” Baker said. “His arm was just up getting ready to stab her and I just grabbed his arm and took him down, and that’s when everybody else came over and we all just took him down.”
The HPD statement revealed that Matthews stabbed her several times before he was tackled and disarmed. The statement says he was attempting to gain control of her duty weapon. After taking down the suspect, the good Samaritans used the officer’s handcuffs to detain Matthews until other police officers arrived and arrested him.
The Click2Houston report states that Pike may lose her right arm. She was stabbed repeatedly in her right arm and torso.
“He does have a diagnostic history of mental illness in the past. To what degree that played into what happened, we don’t know,” local community activist Deric Muhammad said, speaking on behalf of the Matthews family. He said it is possible that Matthews was inspired by the riots in Baltimore Monday night.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Anyone else think they ought to be reopening lunatic asylums and using them to lock these maniacs up like they used to?
What degree did his mental illness play into what happened? I’ll guess 100% , admixed with rage and hatred.....
YES!!!!!
even if someone is mentally ill, no sympathy from me if they do something like this.
with what... a pen knife??? damn
I think we should open lunatic asylums with the sole discretion as to the definition of “lunacy” falling on the general public, in some way. They’d open them, people would do crazy things, and the media would help to explain it away outside of established definitions of lunacy.
Used to be that anyone display aberrant behavior outside of established social norms was thrown into the clink. Nowadays, most of us on FR could be defined as lunatics by DSM standards, which makes this a tough sell for me.
The fundamental transformation is sad indeed. I weep for this country. We (thinkers) are FAR outnumbered.
Jeremiah M. Matthews
It’s too bad the guy wasn’t accidentally killed while he was being subdued.
Too bad he wasn’t injured while being restrained.
Typo! Need to delete “accidentally!”
But, seriously, did you note his Bible name?
Two things in this story portend trouble:
1) female cop
2) “local community activist Deric Muhammad”
Good catch, I noted that too.
He doesn’t look like a very big guy to me.
I suspect the female probably was a small woman, the kind we all want to be there to carry us out of a burning building.
Yeah, such a “big” man attacking a female. I looked for a picture of the victim but could not find one.
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