Too nice a day for this kind of thing but police in Walnut Creek were summoned after a “not-so-gentlemanly gent” (does that appease you critics?) was involved in some sort of incident at a certain unnamed N. California Boulevard coffeeshop Sunday.
Lensman Sean McDonough was out cruising for a latte when the call for police assistance went out – followed shortly by some howling as officers brought out the Taser Persuader to take the individual into custody without further incident.
This particular person has apparently been “trespassed” from the business – allegedly for stirring things up before – and may have “shoved” a customer.
That’s a no-no. Business owners are confronted with this sort of thing all too frequently, we know.
Its Sunday…send him to church!
( we’d try to bring him love & joy! 😇)
“Shaken….not stirred” .Glad the local constabulary responded promptly to address the issue.
Don’t taze me bro!
That appeal did come to mind…
Taze ‘em all.
This makes me so sad. So many of these people are obviously in need of help but they know just what to do to get police attention. Do they want to go back into the hospitals, secure drugs, get a meal in jail. It’s a shame the richest country in the world can’t find a way to house and care for people.
Exactly. We always have Trillions for our endless weapons of war. Trillions unaccounted for, that’s Trillions of dollars. Somehow we can’t have health care. The famous Reich Wing reply is
always “Who’s going to pay for it?” Tell the Navy they have enough aircraft carriers. Then tell McDonnell Douglas to have a bake sale.
If mental illness is behind all of these mass shootings you would think they’d be happy to get some form of health bill passed to help the mentally ill and the public. It’s funny how Republicans don’t want to do anything except find ways to stop people from voting. Nothing more.
Rodger: Interesting letter yours. A few points:
One, this is a one party Democrat state and has been for a long time so looking at a homeless person lying on the street to launch into trashing Republicans is ridiculous.
Two, the expensive war in Europe was seemingly Biden’s goal when in his campaign he promised to “go toe-to-toe” with Putin.
Three, mental health issues were and are to an extent manufactured by government such as extremely oppressive Covid lockdowns that possibly did far more harm than good, with the leadership of the Democratic Party continuously creating fear by saying we are on the edge of revolution, and practicing divisive politics over open borders and even grade school sports gender issues.
Exactly.
“Two, the expensive war in Europe was seemingly Biden’s goal when in his campaign he promised to “go toe-to-toe” with Putin.”
Putting aside the horror of it and just approaching our aid from a defense investment perspective, you couldn’t find a cheaper way to grind conventional Russian forces into a depleted, 2nd tier force.
Add in the international isolation and the brain drain, and Russia has probably been set back decades economically and militarily.
Rodger,
We spend trillions on weapons of war because some of the mentally ill include Putin, Xi, Iran, North Korea, etc. Sure there is waste, tell me about the individual, corporation, non-profit or governmental entity that doesn’t have waste. They should have pepper sprayed the guy first.
Firestone 11R
Having been homeless, I understand the desperation
The LPS act a bipartisan bill was co-authored by California State Assemblyman Frank D. Lanterman (R) and California State Senators Nicholas C. Petris (D) and Alan Short (D), and signed into law in 1967. The Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act provides guidelines for handling involuntary civil commitment of individuals to mental health institutions in California.
Under the LPS Act, individuals can be detained into a locked psychiatric facility in the following process. 5150 hold, an individual can be placed involuntary to a locked psychiatric facility, for evaluation for up to 72 hours. Any peace officer or specific individuals authorized by a county government may place the hold.
http://www.calhospital.org/lps-act shows a map that identifies 100 hospitals in California that are designated by the counties to receive LPS 5150 patients.
The LPS act a bipartisan bill was co-authored by California State Assemblyman Frank D. Lanterman (R) and California State Senators Nicholas C. Petris (D) and Alan Short (D), and signed into law in 1967. The Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act provides guidelines for handling involuntary civil commitment of individuals to mental health institutions in California.
Under the LPS Act, individuals can be detained into a locked psychiatric facility in the following process. 5150 hold, an individual can be placed involuntary to a locked psychiatric facility, for evaluation for up to 72 hours. Any peace officer or specific individuals authorized by a county government may place the hold.
http://www.calhospital.org/lps-act shows a map that identifies 100 hospitals in California that are designated by the counties to receive LPS 5150 patients.
I’ve taken many in for 5150.
Firestone 11R
You’ll never get me, copper!
Lost Zepplelin album just reappeared “Tazed and Confused”….love it!
He needs some milk!
This sounds like a pro police chat
Feel free to offer a differing opinion, comment – within the usual guidelines pertaining to speech, etc.
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Had he been black…..he would have likely been shot…
The police did their jobs efficiently and well. The man is a frequent visitor I think middle eastern or maybe east Indian. He was wearing a Stanford sweatshirt that day. There are a lot like him down here.
Marc – yes. We have additional photos of the gentleman in the shirt you mention. We feel no need to humble/embarrass people. He has his own set of problems at the moment.
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Oh my. Can’t believe this kind of conversation is happening in the Bay Area. Guess the under current was always there. Discussion/debate is always healthy in a democracy so we can collaborate on solutions; propaganda leaves no room to work things out
We have been surprised too, Maria, by the extreme nature of many comments – a good number in violation of our rather forgiving Terms of Service.
We’re interested in the discussion, debate and – hopefully – solutions you allude to and we’re not interested in Right Wing Tropes and trolling, Flame Wars, and off-topic conversation we are seeing.
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