http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/18/1365148/-Mother-calls-911-for-help-with-mentally-ill-son-police-shoot-kill-him-he-had-a-red-broom?detail=email
Police in the United States continue to shoot and kill mentally ill people with reckless abandon. The latest victim, 25-year-old Lavall Hall of Miami, had only been released from a mental hospital for a week. His mother, struggling to care for him, called 911 for help.
"If I (knew) they (were) going to kill my child, I would have never, ever called them," she said.
Hall had recently been released from a mental health facility. Brown said police should have known about his mental illness as they had been called to his home before.
"When they left (here) they went home to their family," Hall's cousin, Walter Pinkins, told Local 10. "They (are) probably home eating, drinking (and) having a good time. But we (are) back here grieving. That's not fair."
It's despicable that American police continue to insist that shooting and killing mentally ill people is their only recourse when it just doesn't happen in developed countries around the world.
Earlier this month police shot and killed a mentally ill man who was throwing rocks and was surrendering to them.
In January, police shot and killed a mentally ill teenage girl who had been in the lobby of the police station for an hour in a cry for help.
These killings by police are many in a long line of shooting deaths of mentally ill men and women who could've been subdued and hospitalized instead of shot and killed.
we keep talking about how the cops's job is so dangerous we should appreciate them it looks as though they do more damage then service they take the job fully aware of the pitfalls but has it turned them into paranoid hair trigger killers?
what good is law enforcement that is really lawless, we have no way of knowing if the guy that stops us is doing his job as it is supposed to be or if we get jerked in/out of the car/ sidewalk and shot and killed for whatever reason they can contrive that exonerates the shooter. they have it rough they have a gun and a stick and pepper spray and taser they carry more crap than Batman's utility belt and they are afraid???
