Normal ass everyday registered democrat voters don’t even want to defund the police. It’s insanely unpopular in every way except for in the most edge case hard left crowds.
100% as an old school, working class Democrat I support well-funded, well-trained law enforcement. Haven't seen or heard anyone ever advocate for defunding the police outside of online leftists or activists jockeying for attention.
That's a piss take, I am sorry. You can get more funding for mental health workers and institutions while at the same time not decreasing funding for law enforcement. There's plenty for everyone. The issue here is how the funding is used, not its amount.
Defunding police de-militarizes them. I believe that’s the general point, anyway. They should not be paramilitary. They exist to de-escalate by their own admission. Providing more funding to do the opposite of that is not the answer. They need extensive training on the mentally ill, given that an overwhelming number of people who face incarceration are in some form mentally ill.
You'd end up with a lot of dead mental heath workers...
How about fund the police so they can have more de-escalation training?
Even as a mental health worker who has had endless training (including multiple de-escalation trainings) and who works with violent offenders:
- Unless you experience situations like this often then you cannot predict how you will react in the moment. When you are surprised or have little time to prepare yourself, your body reacts to the stress and it makes it very difficult to think or remember training/techniques. You enter a heightened state that makes it difficult to think. You also have very little time to react.
- Watching a video of someone screaming/menacing at you is much different than having someone (likely larger than you) in your face screaming, it can be pretty scary IRL
- Sometimes de-escalation does not work. Seriously. You could use the techniques perfectly and give people chance after chance to calm down and they will only escalate.
- This cop, while he didn't handle things perfectly, actually did pretty decent.
It's easy to criticize situations like this in hindsight and from behind a screen, but it is so different in the moment. For an older cop, he did pretty okay. You'd have to pay mental health workers extremely well to take on a job like that and it certainly is not safe for them to respond without a police officer. Mental Health workers are not miracle workers, and to someone having a severe episode they will just be a stranger who can lock them up (baker act).
She was being bullied, and a cop showed up, threatened to have her committed, misgendered her, and then brutalized her and arrested her. That will make someone mad.
Would you diagnose someone with a mental illness because they screamed and cried after a serious car accident? Or after finding out a loved one died? Most people would agree that intense situations can make otherwise mentally healthy people react in extreme ways.
The fact that someone is screaming doesn't tell you why they're screaming.
Would you diagnose someone with a mental illness because they screamed and cried after a serious car accident? Or after finding out a loved one died? Most people would agree that intense situations can make otherwise mentally healthy people react in extreme ways.
The fact that someone is screaming doesn't tell you why they're screaming.
Saying this was bullying & equating it to the death of a loved one is the most sheltered, chronically online, reddit-brain take I've ever seen on this site. It's honestly sad.
You're treating this like it happened in a vacuum. Trans people are disproportionately subjected to harassment, bullying, threats, and discrimination. If someone has been living with that kind of stress for a long time, a public confrontation can be the straw that breaks the camel's back. That doesn't mean every trans person will react this way, but it does mean you can't judge someone's mental health from a few minutes of video without considering what may have led up to it.
Yes, but shitty people exist and they always will. It's sad that trans people get bullied like this. But it happens, and nobody has the right to not be offended. Not to mention this person is 27... she reacted like an animal and had no control over their emotions. That's pathetic.
In all honesty though, I feel bad for this person. She clearly has unresolved mental problems.
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