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Post  Anti Federalist Mon May 12, 2014 1:32 pm

I hope everybody is clear on what I'm trying to get across.

Do not call cops.

Especially in situations like this.

You will more than likely not get a Norman Rockwell-esque "Officer Friendly".

You will get a squad of amped up military style raiders, who will kill anything and anybody that twitches wrong.

Do whatever you can to de-escalate the situation yourself.



Family seeks help with schizophrenic family member, police arrive and tase, shoot him

http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/michael-blair/

HOUSTON, TX –A family received more than they bargained for when they requested the help of local police in dealing with a mentally ill family member.  To “defuse” a situation involving a delusional man who had locked himself in a bathroom with a knife, police kicked in the door, screamed obscenities, tased him several times, and finally shot him to death.  The horrifying scene was captured through a hidden camera set up by family members who were distrustful of police.

The incident involving the death of Michael Blair took place on November 4th, 2013.  The video was only recently released.

It began as Blair, a 26-year-old paranoid schizophrenic, had an emotional episode in which he picked up a knife and claimed he wanted to hurt himself.  Blair took the knife and locked himself in a bathroom.  Not knowing what else to do, the Blair family called 9-1-1 for assistance.

While police were en route, a family relative placed a cell phone in the hallway pointing toward the bathroom.  The relative was concerned about what might happen when all of the family members were removed from view.  The camera obtained a perfect angle from across the hallway, toward the doorway of the bathroom.
“You want to do this the easy way. Don’t make us do it the hard way.”

Two Fort Bend County Sheriff’s deputies soon arrived.  They initiated contact in the most cordial way they knew how.

“Hey man, we will kick in the door, and I don’t wanna do it,” one officer barked.  “You want to do this the easy way. Don’t make us do it the hard way.”

Police confirmed that Mr. Blair had a knife to his neck, which caused them to kick the door in immediately and scream as loudly as their lungs would allow.

The officers continued screaming at the top of their lungs at the ill man.  “Drop the knife!  Drop the knife!  You will drop that knife!  You hear me?!”

The excited man was in no condition to follow commands.  The deputies began employing their tasers as a bargaining tool.  Mr. Blair could be heard yelping in pain from the electric shocks.

At one point the primary negotiator lowered his voice a few decibels and for the first time tried to talk to Mr. Blair without screaming.   “Let it go.  I don’t want to shock you again.”  Blair could be heard babbling incoherently as he lay in a bathtub, frightened from the taser.

The final negotiation was immediately followed by the sound of more shocks being administered.  “I need another taser!”  the deputy called to his partner, evidently signaling that he had drained his batteries.

As the shocks finally ceased, Mr. Blair stood up and shook off the probes that had pierced his body.  As he walked for the door, the lead deputy opened fire.  Eleven shots rang out.

Watch the hidden camera video of the incident below.  [ WARNING: Graphic Content]



The shot continued in rapid succession even after Blair had dropped to the floor.  Among his fatal wounds, Blair was shot in the head.

The family could be heard shrieking with terror.  “Oh Jesus!  You killed him!” a woman sobbed from off-camera.

* * * * *

“We want him to live a long life, so he will always remember my son and how he murdered him in that bathroom that day. My son did not deserve 11 shots to his head, and we have to find out from the media how many times he was shot in that bathroom. Even though we heard the shots ring out, we didn’t know. All that we’re asking is that someone recognizes what we recognize. That was brutality at its finest in that bathroom that day,” said Michael’s mother, Kimberly Blair-Olaniyi.

As we have repeatedly seen, sending government force to ‘deal with’ a person suffering from mental instability is often a recipe for disaster.  Cops know brute force, not finesse.  The panicked, mentally ill man was only pushed over the edge by the violence that came crashing through his door.  The screams and electric shocks were the last thing the situation needed.

Requesting the forceful presence of government agents should only be sought with extreme caution.  The pervasive enforcer mentality has proved to many people that the response that they may receive could turn out to be dramatically less than helpful.


The situation is under further investigation, and the family intends to file a lawsuit.
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Post  WHL Mon May 12, 2014 1:44 pm

You have certainly made me think twice, Anti.  I never would have thought about it until you started posting all these horror stories.  And I hear them all the time other places now too.
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Post  Anti Federalist Mon May 12, 2014 3:36 pm

WHL wrote:You have certainly made me think twice, Anti.  I never would have thought about it until you started posting all these horror stories.  And I hear them all the time other places now too.

And I am being very conservative in my posting of these, so as not to bog the board down too much with this one subject.

I could flood the board with multiple stories like this on a daily basis.

Now, to fend off the inevitable counter argument, let me be clear about something else as well:

Most encounters with cops will not end up like this.

That is not my point.

The point is that the risk of any particular encounter going sideways like this, is increasing.

And the reason why can be directly attributed to the military style training being passed on to cops along with the military equipment, the Circular Force Continuum training, the increasing number of military veterans in law enforcement and the continuing attitude of "Us vs. Them" held by cops, even though being a cop has never been safer, with cop killings being at levels so low as to have never been recorded before.

And that is probably the most dangerous aspect of this: that the cops will now justify hut hutting around and killing us at the drop of a hat as being the reason cop killings are at record low levels.

Do yourself, your pets and your family a favor...if you have situation like this, or any variable of it, think twice, think long and hard, before dialing 911.

Do anything you can to de-fuse the situation yourself.
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Post  News Hawk Fri May 23, 2014 5:22 pm

Anti Federalist wrote:
WHL wrote:You have certainly made me think twice, Anti.  I never would have thought about it until you started posting all these horror stories.  And I hear them all the time other places now too.

And I am being very conservative in my posting of these, so as not to bog the board down too much with this one subject.

I could flood the board with multiple stories like this on a daily basis.

Now, to fend off the inevitable counter argument, let me be clear about something else as well:

Most encounters with cops will not end up like this.

That is not my point.

The point is that the risk of any particular encounter going sideways like this, is increasing.

And the reason why can be directly attributed to the military style training being passed on to cops along with the military equipment, the Circular Force Continuum training, the increasing number of military veterans in law enforcement and the continuing attitude of "Us vs. Them" held by cops, even though being a cop has never been safer, with cop killings being at levels so low as to have never been recorded before.

And that is probably the most dangerous aspect of this: that the cops will now justify hut-hutting around and killing us at the drop of a hat as being the reason cop killings are at record low levels.

Do yourself, your pets and your family a favor...if you have situation like this, or any variable of it, think twice, think long and hard, before dialing 911.

Do anything you can to de-fuse the situation yourself.

The following shooting happened very near my former home—Had I been home, I could have heard the gunshots...

 Surprised 

I do have several copies of the book, 1986 FBI Miami shootout.

Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_FBI_Miami_shootout


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