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Bad Response to Mental Health Call

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She explained to the CIT that her son was having a mental breakdown and needed to be transported to the hospital for treatment. It was the first day Barton had returned to work in almost a year because she can't be away from her son: "he has bad separation anxiety," she explained. On the phone with officers, Barton told officers the best way to approach her son:

I said, he's unarmed, he doesn't have anything, he just gets mad and he starts yelling and screaming. He's a kid he's trying to get attention, he doesn't know how to regulate
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This account of what happened is all according to Barton. SLCPD said police were called to the area for a report of a "violent psych issue" involving the juvenile "having a mental episode" and "making threats to some folks with a weapon."

Aspergers child and a mother who felt she did everything to explain the scenario to police, but police still found a reason that they needed to shoot the kid.  Certainly need to know more, but perhaps a mental health expert would have been the appropriate party here, and the police should not have been the go-to?  They continue to show they are not trained for this stuff. 

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1 hour ago, CV147 said:

It's infuriating. It's a 13-year-old kid with mental disabilities and yet the officer 'feared for his life.' The kid looked like he weighed 75 pounds soaking wet.

America has a policing problem.

And a mental health problem. Mix the two together = bad result. 

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6 hours ago, East Coast Aztec said:

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Aspergers child and a mother who felt she did everything to explain the scenario to police, but police still found a reason that they needed to shoot the kid.  Certainly need to know more, but perhaps a mental health expert would have been the appropriate party here, and the police should not have been the go-to?  They continue to show they are not trained for this stuff. 

Now this is an instance where a social worker would've been better suited to handle this.  We can't expect the cops to deal with this kind of stuff, not with the shit training and screening they go through.  That cop should be fired for this. 

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5 hours ago, mugtang said:

Now this is an instance where a social worker would've been better suited to handle this.  We can't expect the cops to deal with this kind of stuff, not with the shit training and screening they go through.  That cop should be fired for this. 

Yeah, in this case, the cop should be fired and maybe charged. That said, we don’t pay cops that much, yet we ask them to wear a bunch of hats and deal with people that resist and often have to make life and death calls in some bad areas. But cops have the right to come home to their family at night. And the people that resist to the extreme need to realize that they’re giving up some rights, and they’re legally giving the decision as to whether they live or die to the cop. As we know, that’s a very dangerous thing to do, and it’s very stupid to lose control of your fate and future and giving it to a stranger that could totally suck.

So because of that, I don’t have a lot of sympathy for idiots that force cops into that kind of situation. But I don’t have much sympathy for cops that can’t handle situations where their lives aren’t really in danger yet, and they kill someone to be on the safe side while claiming their life was really in danger. 

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