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California sheriff’s deputies kill 17-year-old boy with mental health issues (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Boy, as yet unidentified, is third child killed by San Bernardino law enforcement in less than two years and second in under a month

Southern California sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a 17-year-old boy with mental health issues after he armed himself with a knife and locked himself inside a bathroom at a home, authorities said on Wednesday.

The teen was being transferred from a hospital, where he had been treated after cutting himself, to a mental health facility when he escaped on Tuesday, the San Bernardino county sheriff, Shannon Dicus, said.

The boy, a foster youth who lived in Hesperia, later showed up at a home in Victorville, about 90 miles (145km) east of Los Angeles, where his sisters live in foster care, Dicus said. Someone at the home called deputies to come arrest him, Dicus added, because he had caused trouble there before.

The teen, who had a knife, locked himself in a bathroom, and deputies tried to get him to come out for about a half-hour, according to the sheriff. But when the boy threatened to harm himself, deputies kicked down the door and tried to apprehend him, Dicus said.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Does this happen every time or do we just hear about it when a worthless murder-pig gets an itchy trigger finger?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

You're hearing about it because a cop got an itchy trigger finger. In any other place, they'd try talking the kid down and wouldn't bust down doors unless hostages were being taken.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

95% of the time the police get there, say "yep they're mentally ill, but not doing anything illegal" and leave. That last 5% is trips to jail or the hospital (or both) and there's a fraction of a percentage that ends in a shooting.

No one wants to hear about the boring stuff, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Well of course we hear about it when something untoward happens. That's why it's news.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

There are over 700,000 cops in the US so if they all wanted to shoot at least one person a year each, we could see up to about 1,900 headlines a day. If evenly spread.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I guess that's why they have to take out their violent tendencies on their spouses and other people's dogs. Doesn't make the headlines so much.