BigOrangeTrain
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This is the very point I've observed, also. People are rallying behind their "teams". I'm on the pro-cop/Blue Live Matter team, so anything cops do is OK. Or, I'm on the BLM/ACAB side, so all of these killing of blacks by cops is wrong, but we will ignore black on black crime and cops killing white folks.
I'm just standing here in the middle saying that we do have a policing problem that is affecting ALL of us and we also need to remember that the cure is sometimes in the prevention, meaning people need to limit their number of interactions with cops by not engaging in a lot of these criminal acts... even though I agree that a majority of these laws are bogus as hell.
The overall theme is we have bad cops enforcing bad laws.
You can't just blame the cops themselves for the us vs them mentality. For example, I've seen a disturbing trend around Chattanooga. Solid white police and emergency vehicles with white decals that say police or whatever emergency service. They are almost undetectable in the daylight but presumably reflective at night - who knows. Cops shouldn't operate in a stealth mode, and why in the world would an emergency services vehicle need camouflage anyway. Police cars should be clearly marked and should really be painted like the Europeans do with blue and yellow. To do differently goes back to the speed trap mentality of enforcement which does no one any favors. The question is who started this trend - another spin off from the 9-11 militarism or local politicians trolling for income.
Yes, there are speed traps out there. Tons of them. Meanwhile, back at the Ranch...when conducting speed enforcement on (for example) the Interstate, I sit on the shoulder of the road perpendicular to traffic flow. I'm in a Chevy Tahoe PPV with 7-inch letters in contrasting color on the side that say "Sheriff". The door badge has a 25" diameter. Plus the standard "911" decal, vehicle number, light bar, radio antenna, data antenna, etc. I can almost always be clearly seen from half a mile away. And I generally don't even look at a vehicle until it's going 15 over. All that, and I can throw a tennis ball and hit a vehicle going 90+ almost all day long.
If that's my "stealth mode", I'm not very good at it. No need to troll when the fish are just jumping in the boat...
What happened to her is awful, and I hope this department fires the officers involved, especially after their celebratory gestures to each other.... And use all of this footage as a "what not to do" teaching moment.EXCLUSIVE: Security footage shows 73-year-old Woman with Dementia confronted by Walmart employees after Forgetting to pay for a soda, candy bar and T-shirt and later walking home empty-handed moments before she's violently arrested
Newly-released video shows the moment an elderly woman with dementia was confronted by Walmart employees after forgetting to pay for her items and later walking home empty-handed, just moments before she was violently arrested by police.
- Walmart security footage shows the moment Karen Garner, 73, was stopped by employees after she was suspected of shoplifting
Security footage obtained by DailyMail.com shows 73-year-old Karen Garner trying to walk out of a Loveland, Colorado Walmart last June after allegedly failing to pay for $13 worth of items: a soda, a candy bar, a T-shirt, and wipe refills.
Garner appears to dodge workers as they try to block her from leaving. According to attorney Sarah Schielke, the 73-year-old suffers from dementia as well as sensory aphasia, which impairs her ability to communicate and understand what other people are saying
New security footage shows moment Walmart employees confront elderly woman with dementia | Daily Mail Online
The officers were wrong for not recognizing her dementia and using that much force and the celebratory BS....they deserve what they get.What happened to her is awful, and I hope this department fires the officers involved, especially after their celebratory gestures to each other.... And use all of this footage as a "what not to do" teaching moment.
All that said, if this woman had all these issues and a daughter that's involved in her life I can't help but feel she has a small part of the blame laid at her feet. She was obviously not in a position where she could properly care for herself in society and either needed supervision or be in residence at some facility.
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How often do we have female RNA/CNAs getting into the same types of incidents as these 'roided up cops?Also JUST because someone has dementia doesn't mean they can't hurt you or need to be restrained, it's the #1 Workplace violence incident on RNs/CNAs right now in the healthcare, however that much force was not needed by the officers obviously
You severely overestimate the number of police on steroids. Might want to not generalize made up stuff like that. Also there aren’t just female RN and CNAs. And thirdly, assaults and fights are commonplace in healthcare. There have been nearly 100 this year so far at the local level 1 trauma center and that’s down from years pastHow often do we have female RNA/CNAs getting into the same types of incidents as these 'roided up cops?
Put your hands on a dementia pt and see what happens.You know, I've noticed a very unsurprising trend here.
The ACAB/F12 folks don't give 2 squats about Tony Timpa, Daniel Shaver and this woman, to just name a few. I wonder why.
Some of the "Floyd shouldn't have been resisting" folks aren't saying the same about this woman. I wonder why.
The media has done a spectacular job at balkanizing us, I'll give them that.
Put your hands on a dementia pt and see what happens.
It happens more than you would think..... some cna’s can’t handle it at times..... I was a CNA right after high school as I was beginning my college work to go into healthcare.... we had to go in with a dementia patient who had smeared sh$t all over his room and all over his roommate.... The guy was way stronger than I would have figured..... he pinched, punched, and hit us...... Finally another male CNA snapped and punched him three times.... he then walked out of the room and quit..... I got called as a witness in a court case against him a couple years later to tell what had happened.How often do we have female RNA/CNAs getting into the same types of incidents as these 'roided up cops?
I’m not justifying the cops actions but cops aren’t trained to recognize dementia patients...there are a lot of people that can’t identify dementia patients and do not know how to work with them.The officers were wrong for not recognizing her dementia and using that much force and the celebratory BS....they deserve what they get.
However you are right that Walmart was not wrong for calling police on her as this type of shoplifting happens often.
Also JUST because someone has dementia doesn't mean they can't hurt you or need to be restrained, it's the #1 Workplace violence incident on RNs/CNAs right now in the healthcare, however that much force was not needed by the officers obviously