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undergroundpanther

(11,925 posts)
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 02:01 AM Sep 2012

I got to thinkin about the Cops and Rmoney's disdain of others


weaknesses.I noticed alot of fatal shootings are involving people with mental illness..

Cops& the mentally ill
I posted this in GD
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021404881


What bugs me beyond the obvious that the cop that shot the amputee is an asshole, is more and more the mentally ill are being shot by asshole cops,tazered or treated like shit. Do you know mentally ill people are not prone to violence more than non- mentally people are?

Yet cops go trigger happy on the mentally ill.Why? I chalk it up to more than just ignorance about mental illness.
There are too many cops getting off on the power,and since everyone thinks mentally ill people are crazy,we become a scapegoat because as a population of our vulnerability and well,we are crazy who listens to crazy people?.This is scary if you happen to have a mental illness or psychiatric injury.

And at the DMV they asked me uncomfortable questions..
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/undergroundpanther/144


The video is graphic Don't click it if you don't want to see it,however the article below the video explains the issue.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/16/us/michigan-police-shooting/index.html

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019149663_dojportland14.html

http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/281831/five-police-shootings-four-mentally-ill-victims?SESSf006427a1a88d58830b044f90c02f955=google&page=full
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What do you all think? No money left to educate cops,the republicans robbed it.


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