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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve seen little 45lb black kindergarteners in Florida carted off in handcuffs for lesser dysregulation than this large adult woman displayed.

If this had been a black woman or a black man behaving this way in a store she would have been cuffed and thrown into a wagon and escorted to central lock up, charged with disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, unlawful detainer, trespassing, making terroristic threats, and assault, mental illness be damned and no questions asked.

There but for the Grace of God though… the pandemic was hard on people, even now so many folks are teetering on the edge and walking around one sandwich short of a picnic.  
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You are right that black people with disabilities are treated much worse than white people with disabilities.

However, that does not mean we should equalize treatment by mistreating white people with disabilities. It means we need to address how systemic racism disproportionally harms black people with disabilities.

This woman still deserves empathy, just as a black person in the same situation deserves empathy. It's clear that someone behaving in this way needs help, and not to just be thrown in jail or cuffed.

I will also note here that if a black person with an a mental disability or serious mental illnesses had a similar breakdown over being filmed by a white woman, we'd all be calling the white woman a Karen for harassing a vulnerable black person.

Everything is very broken right now. We keep trying to fix the wrong problems.[/quote]

Yes but this lady told the police on the phone that this lady is threatening me she’s “filming my mental breakdown” she seemed pretty self aware at that point.

Usually truly crazy people in the midst of a breakdown don’t know that they are crazy and spiraling. Plus she eventually pulled it together and left. She’s allowed out unsupervised, so she’s not that crazy.

If she’d been locked up that day or the 15 other times she’s freaked out in public she might learn to do a better job of controlling herself, taking her meds and practicing self soothing techniques while out in public.

I was always impressed by how on balance DCs mentally ill homeless people learned to not go into stores in DC and terrorize customers or aggressively panhandle. For the most part they were a pretty tame bunch.

It’s because the ones who value hanging out in the sidewalk and being free were able to figure out the basic rules, keep hands to self, arguing with yourself and your invisible friends is okay, but don’t follow people down the street, don’t accost them, and don’t go into the stores and misbehave because if you do someone will call the police and you will get arrested.

Best advice I ever received (3rd grade) no one really cares about you or your problems, behave accordingly. [/quote]

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