- 03 Aug 2020 20:28
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What if the person has a non lethal weapon, and the caller says he's acting aggressively?
Excuse me? You are the one who's speculating nonsense here. I'm correcting you on it and your nonsensical reading of the law.
What makes you believe you would be charged with a crime without a prior inquiry? That is necessary under the law or else a grand jury would not indict.
Pants-of-dog wrote:@wat0n
1. In the vast majority of cases, mental health sufferers are not being aggressive or require a 911 call. You seem to be focusing on a slim minority of cases (i.e. those that pose such a violent threat that nurses trained in subduing mental health sufferers would be unable to deal with them) and using those to argue that police should be present even when this is not the case.
But in the vast majority of cases (i.e. those that do not fit your narrow scope) cops are not only unnecessary but actually pose the greatest threat to life.
In the scenario I propose, any person having a mental health episode who is not walking around with a lethal weapon would be dealt with by professionals who are trained to help these people. You seem to think that I am arguing that mental health professionals would be called for people who are walking around with a lethal weapon just because the person seems to be having a mental health issue. That is not what I am arguing.
What if the person has a non lethal weapon, and the caller says he's acting aggressively?
Pants-of-dog wrote:2. Your speculations about what would happen in your hypothetical scenario are not relevant. We are talking about what the law actually says right now. And that says that cops have no obligation to protect anyone.
Excuse me? You are the one who's speculating nonsense here. I'm correcting you on it and your nonsensical reading of the law.
Pants-of-dog wrote:3. Yes, that is the explanation given by cops and lawyers as to why the cops are allowed to kill innocent black people and then walk around free and armed and able to kill more innocent black people.
And if I were walking around doing my job and killed someone like the cops killed Elijah McClain (because of said job), I wiuld still be fired and charged w8th a crime. But cops have a double standard that provides a culture of impunity and that directly contradicts the idea of equality under the law.
What makes you believe you would be charged with a crime without a prior inquiry? That is necessary under the law or else a grand jury would not indict.