On your edit, what are you saying-that this man should have been kept on a shot leash?
Because that’s exactly what I said. Why do these families let their “severely mentally ill” family members run amok and terrorize the community and when they get shot by police; it’s always “he was a good boy turning his life around but he was mentally ill and the police didn’t have to shoot him.”
I have been dealing with a guy at work that is exactly what I am talking about. I work as director of security for a company that owns hotels and other properties. We deal with this guy named Marvin and he is a real big black male and mentally ill from being thrown out of s window to avoid s fire when he was a child. He also happens to be our hr person’s brother. I dealt with him all the time when I was a cop. Anyway, he has been coming into the hotel and I speak to him and after a few minutes, get him to leave. The other day it was 14 degrees and he came in with snot sickles hanging from him nose. I gave him some tissues and a cup of coffee. He started talking about racist police and how they wouldn’t try “that shit in baltimore-them n words would kill them.” After talking to him for a few, I asked him to leave and he got a might bit testy. He mentioned that people that fuck with him end up in the river(he was infamous for asking for money or smokes (mostly women) and when they said no, he would say “I am the reason white girls end up in the river.” I again told him to leave and he did, but he was mother fucking me on the way out, I called his sister and told her that he was clearly off his meds and was paranoid. He is not such an issue now, but he is 6’4” and about 300 lbs and when you had to arrest him, he could be a handful. He is exactly the person I speak of when o say they don’t take care of him. He has severe mental issues and then he runs afoul of the law and gets arrested, the sister snd mother claim it’s because he is black. Holy shut if he was ever shot by police, which I am surprised it never happened-if he ever had a weapon, he would be shot because of his predictable yet unpredictable behavior and he has been known to go off on people. But they don’t make sure he is taking his meds or make him go to counseling. They wait until he is inconveniencing them and is out of control before they try to get him in to see someone. With his issues, It should be a full time gig to eat him over him/ like families do with a wheelchair bound member. When you see someone in that condition, usually the whole family takes turns helping snd they redo the house to ensure the disabled member gets whatever they need. Marvins family does not do that-they let him run loose and terrorize the neighborhood. Come to think of it, the family raised a giant stink about their dog being shot by an officer a few years ago. Just like Marvin, it ran free and terrorized the neighborhood killing cats and chasing people. It was banned from the city and they kept sneaking it back. One day, the dog cornered a mail man on top of a car and he called the officer. He arrived, found the dog on the porch and asked dispatch to call the family to come get their dog inside. Before dispatch could even call, the dog was off the porch and kept at the officer who shot and killed it. Beautiful black Shepard but was owned by a shit family that didn’t care for it, but after it was shot there were protests and all kinds of issues including fb pages which really brings the freaks out with people threatening to come to town to kill either an officer or one of our k9s.
My whole point was that the families rarely seek or adhere to treatment for their mentally ill problem children but when they get shot for stabbing an officer, somehow jt is the officer’s fault and in a true display of mental illness, the family has the gall to blame it on race.
