On the eve of the airing of the Primetime ABC television show featuring MindFreedom
a person(a legal adult) with schizophrenia and autism as a diagnoses is tackled by a police officer working alone, taken to the ground, roughed up and handcuffed. alleged reason: the person, not violent or behaving as danger to self, was walking next to railroad tracks.(not on them)
the person was placed in a police car while the parent is on the phone being told if the parent didn't get there that immediate second, the cop would involuntarily commit the person.
the person is non-verbal,is autistic, appears autistic, is child-like.
the cop was told the person was SZ and off medication and used force on an autistic, mute person. the cop would not open the squad car door, or relinquish the person. the person was taken via ambulance to an er for an involuntary admit to a psych ward. 6 hours later with the help of advocate the person is released.
the police officer assumed the person was violent because of the off-meds SZ dx, and reacted with force.
the person is harmless, nonverbal predominantly autistic in appearance and behavior, is petite in stature and weight.
parent spoke to officer en route, told the officer person is nonverbal and will be afraid of police and police car, to wait with person and tell the person that the parent will be there. police officer did not wait, escalated a situation that was not needed, caused extreme trauma.
police officer used extreme force, person landed on their face.
LABELS JEOPARDIZE MORE THAN A PERSON'S FREEDOM
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Labels are so dangerous. This makes me so very angry and sad. Where is the compassion?
Unnecessarily roughed up is wrong I agree.
This will sound stupid, but the police man/woman was just following the voice in his/her head. He/she's job and duty is to protect the public, a nonresponsive person (to authority)is a potential threat. Train tracks are private property and everyone should know that, if they don't or can't know a person is not supposed to walk near the tracks, they are a danger to themselves being unable to understand the rules we all follow.
Cheryl; compassion is a matter for charity. The Bill of Rights is Law. It was instituted Expressly to preclude the above outrage.
Amendment IV US Constitution
"The right of the people to be SECURE in their PERSONS, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and SEIZURES, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or Affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Psychology/Psychiatry's knowledge base is the province of the Occult, no matter How vehemently its practitioners peddle it as a science. The coiner of the Term "the Schizophrenias" - Bleuler - had No scientific training, and in his retirement played footstool for the legs of a medium named Rudy, in Seances.
"no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or Affirmation"
Any Diagnosis is a 24/7 Open ended Warrant.
70 years ago that Occult turned Germany and Europe into a charnal house. And that is Always the ultimate conclusion of allowing Govt to inflict 'Compassion' upon Anyone.
There are (in no particular order), rapists, murderers, paedophiles, torturers, assassins and terrorists, etc. All are "bad" people, supposedly. They aren't "bad" people, of course; they merely do things that we disapprove of strongly, and because we don't know the circumstances under which they will do these "bad" things, we regard these people as bad in their entirety and treat them in accordance with that belief.
Bad they may be, but they are still people in the eyes of society, by and large. The mentally ill? I don't think they register on most people's scale of humanity, to be honest. At which point, one has to wonder who the mentally ill actually are?
Matt
Hi Stephany,
How horrible, what a violent way to treat your girl.
The officer should have done everything different.
Love,
Herrad
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