I’m not ignoring anything, I disagree with your points and will continue to do so no matter how many times you reiterate them. Explain to me why they couldn’t have used a Taser before she left the room (she would have been unarmed at that point)? At least with a taser the victim has a chance.

I think they should show all the comments (like you) but also this place needs more moderation, stat. It’s frequently trolled by people who just post abusive stuff with no actual point or response in it at all and I’m sure it makes those of us who remember the original recipe AVC even sadder about the way things have…

It seems like some sort of Consumer Group could help here by trying to get toy gun makers to sign up to a code of conduct where they make the toy gun look more like a toy gun in order to save lives.

Had she been tased before she left the room, it would have been a tasing of an unarmed ill woman. Not great but at least she would have had a chance.

“It’s already been said but pointing a ‘bb’ gun at a cop is never a good idea”

I hope there is a special place in hell for any TV producer who makes “reality” TV out of someone’s mental health crisis. Those shows are exploitative as shit.

The unquestioning acceptance of the police statement seems odd. (I’m not even American and I raised my eyebrows at some of the posts ;-) )

Same. I used to get one antagonistic interaction for every 500 comments or so back in the day. On a shallow note, the standards of typing, spelling and grammar have fallen some way as well.

Fair enough but I keep wondering why police and mental health professionals let a person in her condition leave the room. It could have been to harm herself as much as anything.

I’m just curious as to why she was allowed to leave the room (it could have been to harm herself). But I appreciate some people are just trying to defend the public servants here and I can appreciate that motive. But the last few years it seems like the first and only answer to problems some Americans have is to fire…

I’ve never been on Facebook. I have too many relatives who take lots of pictures of themselves. But yes, people’s apathy in the face of oncoming total surveillance is terrifying.

So your post without the pointless personal abuse goes something like: “their were medical and social workers there that were in the process of doing that very thing?”

I was at uni from 2003-2006. The two jobs I would have called my dream jobs (editing and journalism) basically disappeared as viable career options before I finished my damn degree. These jobs still technically exist in small numbers but the pay is low and you need to live in London here to give yourself the best shot…

But very few people found those credible.

It might have and it still could but not enough has been done to protect net neutrality and to safeguard against trolls and malign hackers.

The sad thing (maybe this is more UK than US) is, good journalism is more worth reading than the best blogs a lot of the time because the staff can be properly trained and have power and contacts from working for an institution. So although newspapers are still going to have their own perspectives and bias at least…

She’d technically finished it (she described it as “something ready for publication”) but wasn’t happy with the ending. My edition of the book has a cancelled chapter where Anne has this cross purposes conversation with Admiral Croft that is the key to bringing Anne and Frederick Wentworth back together. It’s good she…

“I hope you’re never in a situation where you have to make a split second decision when lives are on the line.”

Or a driving licence.

The police were meant to talk her down, like they do in countries where cops are not armed.