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Parents called for mental health help. Police arrived and fatally shot their son. (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Less than 10 seconds after officers opened the door, police shot Yong Yang in his parents’ Koreatown home while he was holding a knife during a bipolar episode.

Parents in Los Angeles’ Koreatown called for mental health help in the middle of their son’s bipolar episode this month. Clinical personnel showed up — and so did police shortly after.

Police fatally shot Yong Yang, 40, who had a knife in his hand, less than 10 seconds after officers opened the door to his parents’ apartment where he had locked himself in, newly released bodycam video shows.

Now the parents of Yang, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder around 15 years ago, have told NBC News exclusively that they are disputing part of the account captured on bodycam, in which police recount a clinician’s saying Yang was violent before the shooting on May 2.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can't have mental health issues if you've been shot dead. It's the police way

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

No no no, it's "fatally shot"!

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can always trust the cops to show up and make everything infinitely worse.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Very genuine question: why do cops never use taser guns for situations like this? Presumably they knew the weapon was a knife, so no risk of a shootout.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

very genuine small penis.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Don't call police unless you want someone to die.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

this is why SWATing is so freaking scary.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Google called police on their own employees. I keep saying this.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Police have 1 job....

And it's to uphold order for the ruling class.

Police are class traitors. ACAB.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

And they are trigger-happy like barbaric IDF personnel.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Police should NOT be involved in the mental health process.

Currently they are legally required.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (4 children)

There needs to be a way to call for help from unarmed specialists. 😖

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

in the civilized world, there is. You call the police for an event like this, and they send their psych staff over with support. The issue where I am is that they work normal hours, so late night/weekends you'll get the support team only (who are still not regular, untrained cops).

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There needs to be a restructuring of the entire law enforcement system so blood-thirsty cops aren't required to show up at all 911 calls with guns drawn.

There needs to be accounting and actual oversight from the community, their bosses who pay their checks to ensure they are held accountable and the actual number of times a cop murders a beloved family pet in front of the children, or murders the children, is actually tracked and recorded so we can see how bad the problem really is.

It's almost as if we should, collectively, as a society, stop over-funding violent, tight-knit groups who cover for each other and ostensibly "uphold the public trust."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I will say, I work ambulance for a very right wing rural community. I have done this for a number of years now.

While I do have issues at times with our local LEO, they do a good job with not shooting my patients, or their dogs.

They have done a good job in my community with securing the scene without escalating and then standing back and let us deal with medical/mental health crisis.

These stories do happen to often, and there are policy changes that need to happen, but there are a significant number of communities that have law enforcement who are acting appropriately and therefore get no news coverage.