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Family: Boy, 15, shot to death after attacking police had autism disorder

Not to be insensitive but the boy is in a better place, and put out of his misery. I've worked with kids and adults alike with disorders and for some of them, living is hell, and passing would seem to be a better alternative. It's like when someone tells you that a person with stage 5 dementia has passed, you feel relieved for them.

I worked with this one kid 18/19 (and still do on occasion) who is autistic and has gone after me with his fist leading several times. He's at least 240 pounds, and you wouldn't automatically think ''teen boy'' if you saw him.Thankfully he's uncoordinated and doesn't move as fast as me, but there have been a few close calls where another has had to intervene on my behalf. Sometimes there's two diagnosis that the psychs don't pick up on b/c the primary diagnosis gets the blame for everything!
 
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I'm not going to lose any sleep over the passing of this troubled young man.

I just thought that I would point out that the "kitchen knife" as claimed by the Police was actually what we normally call a butter knife.
So much for the knife fight bravado from the previous pages.

Here's the kid.
 
I'm not going to lose any sleep over the passing of this troubled young man.

I just thought that I would point out that the "kitchen knife" as claimed by the Police was actually what we normally call a butter knife.
So much for the knife fight bravado from the previous pages.

Here's the kid.

I always find it interesting that "very liberal" posters-the ones who want the government to have more power and take more money from us are the ones who are the first to damn agents of the government when they whack someone who is trying to disturb the "greater good"

just sayin.........
 
“They didn’t have to shoot him. They could have tasered the child. He’s only 15 years old,” Wayne Watts said. “They could have tased him, like they did him before, took him to the hospital and he would have been fine and that’s what I want to know. Why couldn’t they do that to him so that he could still be breathing with us right now?”

Family deflecting blame rather than accepting responsibility. Rather than treating their child and helping him they chose to continually rely on the police to come, taser him, take him to a hospital and calm him down. I would love to see charges brought against them for neglect or something for leaving this kid in a position to put himself in this situation time and time again.
 
Police said he had cut an officer with a kitchen knife, but his family said it was only a butter knife. (Watts Family Photo)
Calumet City Police Chief Edward Gilmore said the boy cut a police officer through his shirt sleeve with a “kitchen knife.”

That is one hell of a butter knife to cut through a uniform, and skin.
 
Yeah use a nuke to defend your house from a robbery

what house?

Why the House of America, of course. As far as I know the DOD and DOE (most likely) have nuclear weapons. The ones I used in targeting were DOD.
 
Yes this is a tragedy. And if ultimately some blame must be placed I would put it on the mother (and father if he is even in the picture). This kid has obviously been violent before and should have been sent somewhere so that he never had access to any potential weapon and where he could be with someone that could control him if he ever got out of hand. The fact that it shows that the mother couldn't handle her son's problems (as evidenced by the multiple calls for police intervention) lends weight to this fact. It was her duty to make sure that her son was properly cared for and to make sure that he could hurt no one, including himself.

Edit note: I wouldn't place any of the blame on the cops for sure. Their life was obviously in danger and everyone, regardless if they are a cop or not, has a right to meet deadly force with deadly force.

The thought that the mother's insurance would pay for this kid to be institutionalized for having a mental disorder is not going to happen. We could rely on Big Government to lock people up for before they do things as precautionary, there would be nothing unconstitutional about that either.
 
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My point was, and is, DON'T GET INTO KNIFE FIGHTS. The only knife fight, you will want to get into is one where, you are the only one with a knife. If not, you run and use a barricade and keep on running


To think there is NO POSSIBILITY or the opposite a CERTAINTY of escaping unscathed is stupid.
Things can happen quickly. One must use what one has. I did.
 
This is a tragedy. Who's at fault here? Anyone?
Society. The boy should have been institutionalized long before this event.
 
I'm not going to lose any sleep over the passing of this troubled young man.

I just thought that I would point out that the "kitchen knife" as claimed by the Police was actually what we normally call a butter knife.
So much for the knife fight bravado from the previous pages.

Here's the kid.

One of the worst calls you can get....Family disturbance. :shock:
 
The thought that the mother's insurance would pay for this kid to be institutionalized for having a mental disorder is not going to happen. We could rely on Big Government to lock people up for before they do things as precautionary, there would be nothing unconstitutional about that either.

If need be commit the kid. The taxpayers pay for that.
 
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