Again, five is four. I'm talking about the thread.
From the article:
"A 95-year-old resident of an Illinois nursing home died early Saturday, hours after being shocked with a Taser and bean bag rounds in a confrontation with police."
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You can't have a resident at a housing or nursing or medical or movie or any other facility brandishing a real or simulated weapon or attacking people with common household articles. Period. Common sense. If my mom's facility let a resident stay who was threatening people she'd be out, and the majority of the other residents would be too. In real life, the offender would be out first, and if it escalated , via 911. If someone was doing it on my street I'd be on 911 and awaiting them if they turned onto my front walk.
The only way this parallels a man or woman demanding their personal space or defending their home with deadly force is through irony.
JPINV, you're a good egg, but this thread has gone past the realistic world and into lala land.
PS: again, I wasn't there, but the police measures AS DESCRIBED IN THIS SKETCHY REPORT seem excessive.
PPS: sidebar: isn't it ironic that persons who may be at most risk from being tasered (PCP or crank psychosis, elderly demented, uncooperative due to physiologic or pharmacologic reasons) are amongst those most likely to be tasered...instead of hit with a baton, choked out, shot, hit with sap gloves....they can be unruly or uncooperative because they are undergoing a lethal event already/anyway, like a CVA, intoxication due renal or hepatic failure, OD, polypharmacy, etc.
