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Synthe
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Dallas Police Shoot Mentally Ill Man Standing in the Street
#18998821 - 10/19/13 08:51 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Truly horrendous. I'd encourage you to view the video.
http://www.alternet.org/dallas-police-shoot-mentally-ill-man-standing-street October 18, 2013 |
Another day, another story of police trigger-happines; another mentally ill person struck by police gunfire.
In Dallas this week, as Gawker noted, a 59-year-old man was behaving erratically and holding a knife when his mother called the cops. When the police arrived, as surveillance footage shows, they immediately draw there weapons. Bobby Gerald Bennett was shot four times while his hands were down by his sides. He is currently in intensive care. The Dallas Police Department is now conducting an internal review.
An eyewitness neighbor, Maurice Bunch, told local media:
“When the officers told him freeze, he complied.. He did not move an inch, in suspended animation; he just stood there, you know? Bobby was conscious, he knew exactly what he was doing because I had been talking to him prior.”
Via Gawker:
According to the press release issued by Dallas police Sgt. Warren Mitchell immediately after the shooting, Bennett “made statements indicating that he was not going to cooperate with the officers” and that “the incident escalated which led an officer to fire his weapon upon the individual.”
However, according to surveillance video captured by neighbor Maurice Bunch, Bennett was standing still during the entire incident and, when he was shot, his hands were down by his side.
As I noted late last year, and have reiterated since, an investigation by Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram found that more than half of people shot by police suffer from mental health issues. The study raised highlighted numerous examples, including the following, reminiscent of this week’s Dallas police shooting:
In Saginaw, Mich., six police officers gun down a homeless, schizophrenic man in a vacant parking lot when he refuses to drop a small folding knife. In Seattle, Wash., a police officer fatally shoots a mentally ill, chronic alcoholic as he crosses the street, carving a piece of wood with a pocket knife. In Portland, Ore., police check on a man threatening suicide and wind up killing him with a single gunshot in the back.
Footage of the Dallas shooting caught by the victim’s neighbor can be viewed below:
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Re: Dallas Police Shoot Mentally Ill Man Standing in the Street [Re: Synthe]
#18998922 - 10/19/13 09:29 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Poor guy
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Re: Dallas Police Shoot Mentally Ill Man Standing in the Street [Re: allseeingike] 3
#18999237 - 10/19/13 11:07 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Cops don't handle mental illness well at all. They deal with situations like they are military, which sucks.
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Re: Dallas Police Shoot Mentally Ill Man Standing in the Street [Re: Morel Guy] 1
#18999347 - 10/19/13 11:34 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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The fucked up part about it is that they are actually trained to respond this way.
Internal review? Give me a fuckin break!
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Re: Dallas Police Shoot Mentally Ill Man Standing in the Street [Re: Synthe] 3
#18999372 - 10/19/13 11:41 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Well, he was there, just being all mentally ill and scary. And I have read that a school bus full of precious little angels had passed down the street not 4 hours before!! What if those tender snowflakes had seen him there being all mentally ill and stuff? No, the police did the right thing. Yeah.
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Re: Dallas Police Shoot Mentally Ill Man Standing in the Street [Re: Le_Canard] 1
#18999401 - 10/19/13 11:48 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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There seems to this huge problem with self righteous police. And there's no good solution..
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Re: Dallas Police Shoot Mentally Ill Man Standing in the Street [Re: Psilosopherr] 2
#18999480 - 10/19/13 12:07 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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The police in this video IMO are just as mentally ill as the person they shot.
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Re: Dallas Police Shoot Mentally Ill Man Standing in the Street [Re: MrBlueYoMind]
#18999483 - 10/19/13 12:09 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
MrBlueYoMind said: The police in this video IMO are just as mentally ill as the person they shot.
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Re: Dallas Police Shoot Mentally Ill Man Standing in the Street [Re: MrBlueYoMind] 2
#18999500 - 10/19/13 12:14 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
MrBlueYoMind said: The police in this video IMO are just as mentally ill as the person they shot.
More so. The victim was just angry and confused, the police on the other hand were cold blooded, conscienceless murderers.
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Re: Dallas Police Shoot Mentally Ill Man Standing in the Street [Re: Synthe] 1
#18999805 - 10/19/13 01:36 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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They should really be more selective when giving guns to these officers.
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Re: Dallas Police Shoot Mentally Ill Man Standing in the Street [Re: Rootless]
#19000402 - 10/19/13 04:15 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Might makes right, and the civilians are losing!
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Re: Dallas Police Shoot Mentally Ill Man Standing in the Street [Re: Synthe]
#19000719 - 10/19/13 05:38 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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 Jesus Christ!
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Re: Dallas Police Shoot Mentally Ill Man Standing in the Street [Re: Camwritesgonzo]
#19001489 - 10/19/13 08:51 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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well..... fuck..
poor guy......
i wonder what will happen to the cops in the end??
My guess.....is they will get a promotion and become detectives.
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Re: Dallas Police Shoot Mentally Ill Man Standing in the Street [Re: Vitalux]
#19001610 - 10/19/13 09:23 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sounds like Texas pigs. At least if they do get booked they will probably be raped and killed hopefully
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Re: Dallas Police Shoot Mentally Ill Man Standing in the Street [Re: niteman]
#19002093 - 10/19/13 11:23 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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this is horrible. where was their tazer...
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Re: Dallas Police Shoot Mentally Ill Man Standing in the Street [Re: Vitalux]
#19002310 - 10/20/13 12:50 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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nothing, nothing will happen except a week tops unpaid leave, and a shitty reassignment from patrol cop to traffic or something, and thats a worst case scenario, it kills me
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Re: Dallas Police Shoot Mentally Ill Man Standing in the Street [Re: kadian420]
#19004577 - 10/20/13 04:06 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I dont see a knife in that video.
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Re: Dallas Police Shoot Mentally Ill Man Standing in the Street [Re: lowbrow]
#19006437 - 10/20/13 11:05 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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surly the police wouldn't place one there?
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Re: Dallas Police Shoot Mentally Ill Man Standing in the Street [Re: Synthe]
#19006444 - 10/20/13 11:07 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Synthe said: In Dallas this week, as Gawker noted, a 59-year-old man was behaving erratically and holding a knife when his mother called the cops. When the police arrived, as surveillance footage shows, they immediately draw there weapons.
Not saying this didn't happen, since I'm sure it did, but it doesn't do much for a source's credibility when there's a misspelled word in one of the first sentences.
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Re: Dallas Police Shoot Mentally Ill Man Standing in the Street [Re: NetDiver]
#19006467 - 10/20/13 11:15 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Spelling does mean shit for credibility. Its not the same as speaking and body language together nor all the sources laid out. Taking words for face value is cockeyed. Brilliant people can't spell does that make them stupid?
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