Family of Greensburg woman shot, killed by police holds 'no ill will' against officer

WPXI ^ | March 14, 2019

[rightwingintelligentsia]

GREENSBURG, Pa. - The family of a Greensburg woman shot and killed by police on Wednesday said they hold no ill will toward the officer who shot her.

According to police, Nina Adams was on the front porch of a home on Harvey Avenue firing a gun down the street toward a building.

Channel 11's Courtney Brennan spoke with Adams' family Thursday. They said she suffered from schizophrenia and could be violent.

[Gay State Conservative]

Having encountered more schizophrenics than I care to recall during my decades in "front line" medicine I can guarantee that they're prone to the most bizarre thoughts,beliefs and actions you can imagine. I've heard it said that most schizophrenics are non violent but when they get the idea that somebody,or some *thing*,is out to get them...watch out.

Nobody related to a schizophrenic should ever be surprised to learn of a tragic...and sometimes violent...death.

[treetopsandroofs]

[Gay State Conservative]

That’s not really schizophrenia.There are many degenerative disorders of the brain seen in the elderly that can cause unfortunate thinking and behavior.

[bgill]

This is why we need insane asylums.

[treetopsandroofs]

Sorry, I’ve been laughing at that photo for a couple days, and it seemed to fit pretty well.

[dp0622]

LOL

[Hot Tabasco]

Having encountered more schizophrenics than I care to recall during my decades

Back in the early 80's, one of my childhood best friend's brother was diagnosed as schizophrenic. He was a Vietnam vet then a University of Michigan graduate and a successful executive recruiter here in S.E. Michigan.

At the time he had lost everything, his business, his house and his wife and was back living in northern Michigan under the watchful eye of a social worker.

I live in S.E. Michigan and his brother lived down here too. On a Thursday I got a call at work from Skip telling me he was coming down to Detroit for a business meeting with the French Embassy in downtown Detroit to discuss their potential investment in expanding a railroad line from Detroit into northern Michigan and he needed a place to stay the night and if he could stay with me.

I knew immediately he was off his medication.

So I told him sure, he could stay at my apartment. As soon as I got off the phone, I called up his brother Jack and told him what Skip was planning and Jack agreed to come over to my place that evening.

Sure enough, that evening Skip showed up at my apartment and his brother Jack came over and kept us company.

Well, Skip stayed the night, I left for work in the morning and sometime after that Skip left my apartment......Where he went, I really don't know. Probably back home to northern Michigan during a lucid moment....

Schizophrenia is a horrible disease, not only for the individual suffering from it but for the entire family and those who have to ultimately care for them.

My friend Jack tried repeatedly to get the District Court Judge, who was a close friend of his family, to get Skip committed to a hospital. The judge couldn't do anything until Skip proved to be a threat to others or himself.

At the time, Skip was living homeless on a beach along the shoreline of Lake Charlevoix and it wasn't until winter started to set in that the Judge was finally able to authorize Skip to be committed to the state mental hospital.

Unfortunately for Skip, he was put in a ward with the criminally insane and within the first week there, he was almost beaten to death by another "patient".

[napscoordinator]

Libs say Reagan shut them down. Is that true. Twitter people say it constantly. So annoying. Have no idea I’d true so I just block them.

[LauraJean]

No, I worked at Elgin Mental Health Center back in the 1970s and that was when there was a big push to discharge people to their families or more likely for profit group homes. Many of those were in the Chicago uptown area and people living there wanted to know why they were getting all these ex-patients in their neighborhood.

[Robert DeLong]

Dr. Robert H. Felix, who was then director of the National Institute of Mental Health and a major figure in the shift to community centers, says now on reflection: ''Many of those patients who left the state hospitals never should have done so. We psychiatrists saw too much of the old snake pit, saw too many people who shouldn't have been there and we overreacted. The result is not what we intended, and perhaps we didn't ask the questions that should have been asked when developing a new concept, but psychiatrists are human, too, and we tried our damnedest.''

1984 New York Times - HOW RELEASE OF MENTAL PATIENTS BEGAN

So the answer is no. President Reagan did release a lot of them after being pushed by public opinion demanding the release of these insane people, but the push started years before he became President.

[House Atreides]

Skip’s been having some success. I think the meeting with the French may have been fruitful at finalizing needed financing but they’re keeping it quite. ;-)

https://www.9and10news.com/2018/11/27/cadillac-hosts-community-forum-on-passenger-rail-service/

[napscoordinator]

Reagan sure was pushed a lot. Amnesty and this. I think his second term was tiring for him.

[Robert DeLong]

All Republicans are, that way if it goes south they can blame it on the Republicans.

[napscoordinator]

Sadly true.

[pelicandriver]

In California the LPS act made it almost impossible to commit someone long enough to get the treatment they needed.