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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The guy was on drugs[/quote]

What's scary is that he was acting exactly like my neighbor's autistic adult son who got out one day when she ill and took some new meds that knocked her out.  To you, an outsider, and to the police who came, he was an uncooperative "drug addict" and all of the neighbors trying to tell them otherwise were hindering their investigation.

I honestly thought I was going to watch a man die that day.  And yes, he is black.

The son locked himself out because he's not usually allowed outside in the front yard alone.  The meds his mom took put her into a deep sleep and she didn't hear the door.  He got frightened and started pacing up and down the sidewalk, talking to himself and talking nonsense like this.  We think a passerby called the police because everyone in the neighborhood knows him and were trying to contact his mom and calm him down.  We'd done a good job of it too until three police cars pulled up and an ambulance.  Then it was too much noise, too much shouting from too many different men, and he just completely shutdown.  It was terrifying to watch.  And the police had ZERO training on how to deal with someone like that.  Shouting commands at someone like her son doesn't work.  It doesn't work if one person does it or if 6 guys do it.  It doesn't work if one guy does it 3 inches from his face or a guy does it holding a taser gun on him.  He. Does. Not. Understand.  And we couldn't make the oafs understand that he wasn't ignoring them to be difficult or resist, he was autistic and had sensory overload.

I think each police force needs to have a special unit that can get dispatched out to calls like this who are trained to deal with someone who is in an altered mental state.   [/quote]Amazing story. I hope people realize defunding the police doesn't mean NO police but allocating LEO funding to the agencies that would be much better equipped to handle a situation like the one you described.[/quote]

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