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    skefflesIssac J. Bailey
    9/25/18 12:19pm

    Mental health patients should be transferred by the health service provider, not the bacon. We remain one of the worst countries in the world for criminalizing mental health and conflating it with moral failures. This is a sickening episode from start to finish. I would not bet against these cops doing this just to outright murder two ill women, and claim it was an accident as their cover. It fits with how we treat mental ill health, and how the cops see anyone who isn’t a cop.

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      Bubba Fett, Seymour-Baus,Inc.skeffles
      9/26/18 9:13am

      Whenever there is a mass shooting, the GOP always says it’s a mental health issue, yet they cut funding for mental health, resulting is shit like this.

      Assuming mass shootings are a mental health issue (and to an extent, they are), then they are directly contributing to the problem by removing treatment options. (This of course, is ignoring the fact that most of them have been bought and paid for by the gun lobby.)

      However in this case, we have two people who died because some pigs decided to save their own asses after being stupid. This is a perfect demonstration of how America treats people with mental illness. Not only are treatment options cut to the bone, but victims are left to drown in a cage like dogs. Actually, a lot of dogs were rescued, so they were treated worse.

      The officers in charge of them are stupid, negligent cowards, and they need to pay for this.

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    HuskyBroIssac J. Bailey
    9/25/18 11:57am

    This is the first I’m hearing of this, horrible.

    It’s getting harder and harder everyday to keep up with the mistreatments/deaths that occur in “serve and protect” system.

    Horrible. 

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    NopeNopejustNopeIssac J. Bailey
    9/25/18 12:11pm

    You’d think we’d learn, but not a thing has changed.

    https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5gjdxn/hurricane-katrina-was-a-nightmare-for-inmates-in-new-orleans-829

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    JRWIssac J. Bailey
    9/25/18 4:44pm

    The people must know this: even though these women had committed no crime and were not violent, they were CHAINED in place. For safety? Whose? They were in the back of the van and the deputies were up front. Why were they chained? Because that’s the policy. Had they not been CHAINED in place, they might have been able to stand on the transport van’s benches and get air. Had they not been CHAINED in place, the deputies might have been able to free them in time (although it isn’t clear that the deputies tried to help them at all). Next time you disparagingly call someone “crazy” because you don’t like something they did, remember you are stigmatizing mental illness and this kind of thing is the result. Most of The Root’s readers wouldn’t use the phrases “faggot” or “gaywad” because you don’t like somebody. Why is insulting people by implying mental illness any better? Frankly, in this day and age, that’s just “retarded.”

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    Raineyb1013Issac J. Bailey
    9/25/18 1:25pm

    This is malpractice and criminal indifference for which no one will pay. 

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