Texas police officer shoots patient in hospital psych ward

Brother of Valley man shot in Houston hospital speaks out
by Nestor Mato
Posted: 08.30.2015 at 3:31 PM

http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=1245669


The patient was being combative with hospital staff in his room before the staff summoned the officers, who were working off-duty as hospital security, police spokesman Kese Smith said.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-houston-cop-shoots-hospital-patient-20150827-story.html


How about "Patient lives matter" ?

Don't they find enough mentally ill on the streets to gun down ?

http://www.killedbypolice.net

I think this is a perfect example of institutions being ill equipped to handle the mentally ill. I have a hard time understanding what untrained armed law enforcement was doing handling an unarmed mentally ill person in a facility that is supposed to be able to administer restraint. This defies all explanation considering mental facilities utilize restraint everyday all over the country.

Thanks for posting this, until people are aware nothing will change.

I am tired of these law enforcement types coming on TV and refusing to acknowledge the problem.

"isolated incident"

Paid leave vacations wile their buddies investigate.

What a joke.

How about just giving me the traffic ticket and skipping the 4th amendment violations ?

"May" we search your vehicle ? And treat you like crap.




Guilty until violated and found innocent.

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No wait I have a better one ,

"isolated incident"

www.google.com/search?q=police+brutality

I agree its something few are willing to acknowledge. No matter what people say police as a whole are not trained well enough to deal with the mentally ill. Dealing with criminals and mental illness are two VERY separate concepts being worlds apart. What can help in one will certainly escalate the other. This needs to change as mental illness and its symptoms are not something people have full control, no one chooses to be mentally ill. Mental illness can happen to anyone.


I truly believe that all law enforcement officials should have intensive mandatory training dealing with mental illness and part of that should be similar to training mental health care workers receive like in clinical restraint, verbal de-escalation, identifying symptoms of concern, ect. In a perfect world law enforcement would even spend time in a good psych word seeing these skills applied first hand.

Riccola wrote: intensive mandatory training

You can't train people to have empathy or care.

First a bit of terminological history, to clear up any confusion about the meanings of “sociopath,” “psychopath,” and related terms. In the early 1800s, doctors who worked with mental patients began to notice that some of their patients who appeared outwardly normal had what they termed a “moral depravity” or “moral insanity,” in that they seemed to possess no sense of ethics or of the rights of other people. The term “psychopath” was first applied to these people around 1900. The term was changed to “sociopath” in the 1930s to emphasize the damage they do to society. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mindmelding/201301/what-is-psychopath-0

I believe we need intensive mandatory psychological screening to weed them out before they ever get to be police officers.


In every Youtube video I ever watched of police beatings and killings they were clearly being "psychos".