Another suicide by cop

Another mental patient dies at the hands of cops who seem to have no other training than to shoot on sight like military people. I thought cops where there to help people.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/04/politics/u-s-capitol-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

 

 

 

 

 

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October 4, 2013

I wish I had answers to fix these situations…

October 4, 2013

It is so incredibly sad.

October 4, 2013

I’m also starting to wonder about these hair-trigger “lockdown” situations. At any provocation everybody in a public building becomes a captive “for their own protection.” It seems like a good way to aggregate civilian targets. Any predictable response in can be exploited by an adversary.

October 5, 2013

Her actions were and did endanger the people around her. She injured an officer with her “weapon” – in this case a car. I don’t think they had any opportunity to check her medical records while this was going down….

I second what bigstronghairyguy said.