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If you still wonder why the #DefundThePolice movement, then wait till your loved one is the victim. Empathy anyone? Here is yet another case. If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. While some nails are hammered more frequently and harder all are hammered at some time.
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A 13-year-old autistic boy is still recovering in the hospital after getting shot several times by police on Friday night in Glendale. Linden Cameron had injuries to his shoulder, both ankles, intestines, and bladder, according to his mother, Golda Barton.
As an officer-involved shooting investigation is underway with the Salt Lake City Police Department, the boy’s mother told 2News what happened. Watch the exclusive interview that aired at 10 p.m. on Channel 2 with Kelly Vaughen.
Barton said she was the one who called the police and asked for a crisis intervention team (CIT). She said her son, who was Aspergers, was having a mental breakdown. She spoke briefly about how she was told how the CIT would respond:
This is how to deal with people with mental health issues. So, you call them, and they’re supposed to come out and be able to deescalate a situation using the most minimal force possible.
She explained to the CIT that her son was having a mental breakdown and needed to be transported to the hospital for treatment. It was the first day Barton had returned to work in almost a year because she can’t be away from her son: “he has bad separation anxiety,” she explained. On the phone with officers, Barton told officers the best way to approach her son:
I said, he’s unarmed, he doesn’t have anything, he just gets mad and he starts yelling and screaming. He’s a kid he’s trying to get attention, he doesn’t know how to regulate.
She said she was to stay while the two officers went through the front door of the home in the area of 500 S. Navajo Street in the Glendale neighborhood. She said in less than five minutes, she heard “get down on the ground” and several gunshots were heard.
Source: Mother of autistic boy shot by police speaks out: ‘Why didn’t you just tackle him?’ | WKRC
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I’m finding it interesting that the child was of such a compact frame that his center of mass and ankle were of such proximity and that this is the second police shooting where the colon was shot.
Are cops now afraid of people’s rectums or is that a new police doctrine to shoot citizens in the asshole?
Well, either of both of the above are true or the cops just fire randomly, making them a danger to an entire neighborhood and especially, an entire apartment building, in one specific case where the lone “gunman” was entirely missed and the only one inside the apartment unarmed was struck multiple times and adjacent apartments had bullets going through them (not to mention one cop outside having no clear shot available firing an entire magazine blindly into an apartment building window).
Or is there a police quota on, just as long as the right number of people are shot, the cops are good with their management and union?
Yeah, nothing is sounding very good – especially since Mom, on her first day of work after a year of being out of work, called and asked for a crisis team for her son and got a kid with sizable chunks of him hollow pointed into near-oblivion.
And of course, the PD is now tap dancing, claiming a weapon when Mom already said no weapons were present.
Personally, I’d be looking at the local VFW’s howitzer to see how much it’d take to become serviceable again…