Well well well -psychiatrist warned police that James Holmes posed danger

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/05/aurora-shooting-police-james-holmes
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A psychiatrist who treated the suspect in last year's Aurora cinema shooting in Colorado told police a month before the attack that James Holmes had homicidal thoughts and was a danger to the public, newly released documents show.

The attack killed 12 and injured 70 and was one of the worst mass shootings in US history.

The documents released on Thursday show Dr Lynne Fenton told police at the University of Colorado, Denver, that Holmes also threatened and intimidated her.

The documents had been sealed, but a new judge overseeing the case ordered that they be released after requests from media organisations including the Associated Press.

In the days after the shooting, campus police said they had never had contact with Holmes, a graduate student at the university. But campus police told investigators that Fenton had contacted them, following her legal requirement to report specific threats to authorities, according to a search warrant affidavit.

[Freddie Stubbs]

1. So why didn't the police go to a judge for an involuntary commitment?

[malaise]

4. Good question

but don't expect anyone to resign

[spanone]

2. this nation is broken, perhaps beyond repair

so what the fuck did the police do with the info????

[malaise]

3. They pretended that the psychiatrist never warned them about

the slaughterer

[Lurks Often]

5. Three times now someone kicked the bucket down the road for someone else to deal with the problem,

and three times a mass shooting occurred: Arizona, Aurora and Virginia Tech. It remains to be seen if this is also true of Sandy Hook. When will we start holding the people for ignoring these warning signs responsible?*

*I am NOT referring to the relatives of the mass murderers who may or may not have known their child had issues. Maybe they didn't recognize the symptoms, maybe they recognized the symptoms, but didn't believe their child could hurt people or maybe they were in complete denial over their child's issues.