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| Moment deputies shoot and kill teen boy, 17, in the bath tub in the midst of a mental health crisis at his sister's foster home: Comes weeks after autistic boy, 15, was shot and killed at his home |
| 2024-04-04 |
| They broke in to save him. [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] San Bernardino cops shot and killed a 17-year-old boy with mental health issues after he armed himself with a knife and locked himself inside a bathroom at a home his sisters were being fostered in. Armed cops from San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department were seen rushing into the bathroom at a home in Victorville, southern California, where the teenager's sisters live in foster care, after he escaped from a mental health facility on Tuesday. Video footage shared by the department showed cops shoved the teen, who has not been named, into the bathtub, screaming at him to get down and put his hands behind his back. The video then abruptly cuts off, and police said he was shot and later pronounced dead in hospital. Police said he had locked himself in a bathroom, and deputies tried to get him to come out for about a half hour, according to the sheriff. But when the boy threatened to harm himself, deputies kicked down the door and tried to apprehend him. Deputies pepper-sprayed him, and one deputy's hand was sliced by the knife. The death came less than a month after San Bernardino deputies shot and killed 15-year-old Ryan Gainer. The autistic boy had threatened family members at a home in Victorville and then chased a responding deputy with a garden hoe, the sheriff's department said. San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus said Wednesday that in both cases, deputies were met with violence. He said parents need more access to mental health services for their troubled children, so that law enforcement isn't the only option in times of crisis. 'My record as sheriff for the last several years is I have championed having a better mental health system,' Dicus said. 'The corrections environment and our public environment have been challenged a number of times where the only mental health resource we have in our community is law enforcement, and that´s the only 24/7 resource that we have.' |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #2 Sadly true, Procopius2k. While controllable at 4’ tall and 50lb, the same behaviours at 6’ tall and 250 lb can be dangerous to all around them, no matter how unintended the harm. From the article about a previous boy they killed: The autistic boy had threatened family members at a home in Victorville and then chased a responding deputy with a garden hoe. No blame, but that’s the reality. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-04-04 17:44 |
| #1 Anyone think that maybe some law enforcement has seen enough of its own killed by 'abnormal' people who basically get off punishment that some in the ranks are going to take no chances? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-04-04 15:35 |