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“Mental illness” or “having a mental health crisis” or “in crisis” or “suicidal” or “under the influence” or WHAT? What makes it just fine to blame law enforcement for their justified response to the actions of these individuals who are putting others at risk. We closed the “mental institutions” long ago because they were deemed inhumane. At the end of the day, there is no excuse to put the public or first responders at risk because family members can’t accept that their “wonderful loved one” no longer exists, by mental defect or addiction or WHATEVER, and is reeking havoc on society. I know, I have one in my own family. He doesn’t want our help nor from anyone else. While family more often have a unique ability to erase reality when it concerns a loved one they once knew, society is NOT willing to enter into that warped reality. This is why George Floyd, a career criminal and heavy drug user, was made into a saint. Insane.
You’re kinda all over the place, dude.
Mental illness and all the others you listed actually do matter. There is a major difference between a man beating his wife screaming “I’m going to kill you” versus a severely autistic 8 year old hitting someone because of difficulty regulating their emotions.
Cops should always be responsible for their actions. Sorry if that offends you but they’re human just like the rest of us and accountability matters in all parts of society, especially ones involving powers others do not have.
I really don’t like your dehumanizing rhetoric about mentally unwell people. The “wonderful loved one” absolutely exists, they just find themselves to also be the victim of their affliction. They’re probably suffering and in pain themselves. You can still have empathy and grace for them even as you take measures to protect others from their harmful behaviors.
George Floyd being “made into a saint” is just your reframing of the fact that he was essentially executed without trial by a cop despite no evidence of the commission of a crime that would carry the death penalty. George should have gotten a trial, judged by a jury of his peers and sentenced according to the law. Dozens of people who would have been in the process of determining the best way to handle the situation effectively bypassed by one person who was warned repeatedly that what he was doing to George was killing him. That is the reality of the situation you are trying to deny. If it were you being suffocated to death over a perceived minor crime, somehow I think your opinion might change slightly before your vision fades.
Judge Dredd is a good comic book but please leave your dystopia in the fiction aisle.