...interactions with authority before.
This is what Defund the Police is about. The police are not therapists. They do not understand what it takes to confine a mental patient in a therapeutic and secure manner.
Something is wrong with our mental health care in this country. There is something wrong with the system if the first brush with mental health treatment is after an arrest and jailing. How many unarmed, unresisting people with mental health issues are shot and killed every year. Google it.
The closest to an understanding about this problem is Harris County, Texas Sheriff's office who's having built not only new offices and Jail, but is also building a multistory mental health treatment facility for inmates needing help.
He's taken it on as a requirement if one is going to pen people up. The vast majority of police administration treats it like a simple line item, like frozen french fries or shower towels.
Before this guy took his speech into assaultive behavior at an airport, he had to have been known by anyone close to him: he is ill. Dangerous, but ill.
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