Are you for rough ridin' real? Do you think the guards were doing random bed checks and were just cursing by when the patient didn't take his meds because he didn't get ice cream and start blasting?
The situation was already out of hand when the guards were called. They went through 3 levels of force elevations before using lethal force because crap was so out of hand. JFC these are the facts that are critical in these cases that you people are choosing to ignore to fit your narrative. I'm not asking for a lot out of you people, just an honest evaluation of the facts and you can't even come up with an intellectual defense of your narrative, and that is why you malign me with your bullshit attacks (looking at you too Puni). Just stop for a second and take off the anti-cop glasses and think about how normal people would react.
The facts are that a man admitted himself to the hospital because he wasn't mentally sound. The hospital knew his medical history and failed to properly subdue him, and then they shot him in the chest. Everything else you stated is not supported by anything factual. It's made up bullshit to support your argument. Why do hospital security guards even carry weapons? Why does the hospital not have a proper procedure to deal with mental health patients? The signed petition states that most hospitals do.
I think that story just outlines that police are so used to being able to shoot first and ask questions later that they absolutely should not be working any type of security job when they are off duty. Hospitals should look to mall security for their labor force.
LOL I mean this is just comical how you are bending the story to fit your needs.
The hospital medical staff totally failed to managed the situation. The situation got out of hand and they required physical force to attempt to regain control of the situation. As the situation escalated it became more violent because of the patient's actions. You can choose to ignore that all you want, it doesn't make it less true. Once the security staff is there, it's not the scenario you want it to be. And lots of security staff have weapons, lots of place hire off duty cops because its easier with liability issues to employ them. Those are facts that are widely known, but are only a reasonable supposition here. Now back to you making up "facts" again: we have no idea what the hospital's policies are, or where they broke down from that article. We have some info about the family attempting to warn the staff, but we don't know where that went or how it was sent to staff. It's sad the family wasn't there to get the patient involuntarily committed.
Also you show your bias once again when you ignore the fact they went through 3 levels of force elevation, a series of facts that you do not dispute, and continue to ignore because you know that alone destroys your entire position.