What's in NM's water?

[flogger]

I wonder if they will rethink that helmet cam/public record thing. It's pretty damning footage and I'm sure the officers involved feel like crap about the whole thing. The guy was no Mother Teresa (by a long shot) and they knew it, they were well equipped, pumped up and came in WAY too heavy for the situation. It could have ended with no one getting killed.

Just some thoughts, I'm not sure what I would have done in their positions. I know Andy and Barn would have handled it different in Mayberry but, this is a border town and a big one. I think I'd be a little edgy. Tough story.

[davsel]

I thought that type of situation is what tasers are for.

[TFOGGER]

ABQ is hardly a border town. It's ~230 miles to Juarez. Regardless, this situation sucks for everyone involved.

[Great-Kazoo]

ABQ is hardly a border town. It's ~230 miles to Juarez. Regardless, this situation sucks for everyone involved.

^Thank you^ . Geography, learn it.

[flogger]

^Thank you^ . Geography, learn it.

My bad, I was thinking about Commerce City.

[fitz19d]

Going to segue completely away from the shoot itself and inject on a comment about mental health in general. Can't help but feel it's almost the inevitable and almost preferable thing as long as the nation refuses to go back to long term hospitalization of severe mental patients. There are those that these days do benefit from meds if they can stay on them and be functional. On the other hand, I frequently see at work the yo-yo patients who are not only permanently completely pschizo/disabled, but are also dangerous. They get kept in the ER for 1-3 days until they find placement, then are out of West Pines or whatever other low level psych ward they are put in in a week or less typically.

Now that I've been doing it for 4 years I've had the opportunity to see the patients that since go on to be in the news or I hear from other channels as hurting someone because they were allowed to continue on their path. My first long term GF I ended up having to let go because she got worse to be completely unable to operate and fortunately got locked up long term as a ward of the state. So believe me it's a subject I know well and I'm certainly empathetic to the tragedy that is mental illness.

That being said, there's some of these individuals that getting put down is really the best thing for everyone including them. (Not saying all mentally ill, or even guy in video)

Call it monstrous, but I prefer it to deranged people out hurting innocents. Same way most of us gladly would end a molester.

[hatidua]

That being said, there's some of these individuals that getting put down is really the best thing for everyone including them. (Not saying all mentally ill, or even guy in video)

whose pencil do we entrust to draw the line?

[fitz19d]

Well, preferably not overly trigger happy folk. Not saying it's something that is regulated, it's just the natural consequence of these sick people being loose.

[ben4372]

Gotta love po po with a full auto. Thanks for sharing, now I won't sleep well. Is this gonna just keep escalating or can we stop it. This is a far cry keeping the peace.

[palepainter]

It appears to be a habit down there. http://krqe.com/2014/03/26/following...nother-man/?mn