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Old 04-21-2021, 09:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Swoop View Post
This was sort of the reverse of the OJ trial...

Do yourself a favor and research Tony Timpa...
I know about Timpa, you have mentioned his case many many times. For those that don't know, in Texas about 5 years ago the cops were called by the victim himself asking for help. They arrived to a situation where a severely disturbed schizophrenic white man was encountered. He was already cuffed and prone on the grass by store security. The cops restrained him on the ground for several minutes mocking him and making jokes about his mental illness of which they were very aware. He stopped breathing and died, with cocaine in his system.

The cops were indicted by the grand jury but the local prosecutor refused to go to trial when the coroner refused to state that the cause of death was the police action. Maybe this is one example you can continue to cite, but it is not the same, and has nothing to do with OJ. I will concede that in the chart of persons that cops are likely to abuse people with severe mental health problems are right up there with Black people. This is why there is a push by many to have some police actions be taken over by mental health experts with cops only as back up. If a social worker had been dispatched to Mr Timba he would almost certainly be alive.
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