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To: Ennis85
She added that Schultz had numerous medical issues, suffered from depression and had attempted suicide two years ago. "Why didn't they use some nonlethal force, like pepper spray or Tasers?" she was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

Why didn't you have him institutionalized instead of sending him away to be someone else's problem, you dingbat?

10 posted on 09/17/2017 6:57:06 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: Alberta's Child
Why didn't you have him institutionalized instead of sending him away to be someone else's problem, you dingbat?

Involuntary institutionalization is very difficult to obtain.

Even for paranoid-schizophrenics.

37 posted on 09/17/2017 7:16:08 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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——Why didn’t you have him institutionalized instead of sending him away to be someone else’s problem, you dingbat——

In most states, it’s pretty much impossible to institutionalize a person unless they voluntarily agree..or are a clear and present danger to society and then it must be a judges order...

I know...family issue once removed...


46 posted on 09/17/2017 7:24:30 PM PDT by Popman
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Do you know how much it costs to keep someone inpatient at a hospital long term? Also it’s up to the psych’s when they get released not the parents.


94 posted on 09/17/2017 11:06:51 PM PDT by kelly4c
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