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Police need better training in people with special needs

Journal by Gaaark

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-45739335/
This ^ should never have happened.

We've registered our son (despite my mis-givings) with the police as moderate to severely autistic, non-verbal, with slight cerebral palsy BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT THINGS LIKE THIS to happen to him (as well as for other reasons, explained below).

The police in Canada seem to be much better trained (or more patient) than in the States, but we don't want anything going wrong for him in any encounters.
He is rarely out of our sight or hearing and we got him a Medic-Alert tag for his running shoes that can point police to his info (supposedly, they are trained to look for tags like this), but registered him with the local police to let them have INSTANT info if he ever did go missing (they won't have to wait for us to get them pictures and info: they will be able to access it from their site).
They will know his name, any nick-names he will respond (possibly) to, how he might react to them, how to get calm him down, that he will probably want to be hugged, etc.

We want him to be trouble free if found by the police (the school has let him run a couple of times but have always caught up to him eventually.... so far).

But what happened in the video above is disgusting. He sprays water at them and they taze him over and over and over and over????
WTF?

If that happened to our son, they would be seeing a VERY expensive court case and disciplinary actions and HELL FIRE RAINED DOWN ON THEM and have their asses plugged with cement if possible.

Never. ever. ever. should. have. happened.

*****
Just read the rest of the story: the down syndrome kid being asphyxiated by police and the other shit.

No charges were laid against the cops who tazed the kid in the shower?

My God.
How do these people go on in their lives.

 

Reply to: Re:an important factor

    (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 06 2018, @04:27PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday October 06 2018, @04:27PM (#745074) Homepage

    Yes, sir - I did read the article. You are perfectly correct - those cops were in no fear whatsoever. The cops have gotten away with executing old and young, black and white, male and female, sane, insane, handicapped - none of that matters. Your state of health, mental capacity, age, none of that means anything. When a cop says he followed procedure and/or that he feared for his life, that is pretty much the end of the case. Limited immunity knows few if any limits.

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