A 73-year-old Detroit man is behind bars for allegedly attacking a 7-year-old girl with a knife in a city park full of children, slashing her throat in an incident that ended with the child racing home to her mother for help, and the suspect in handcuffs.
“He just like came out of nowhere and just like (pulled) the knife on me,” the girl told Fox 2 News as she sat on a porch step this week with gauze around her neck, explaining how a day at the park with her grandmother turned into a day of horror.
According to the article the man has been having mental health problems. That’s ok though because it seems the wife has been addressing it with the power of Facebook prayer requests. Clearly it’s been working well.
Sarcasm aside, what are people with mental illness but no access to adequate healthcare expected to do? I’m assuming they couldn’t afford medical care but, given that they are in their seventies, living in America, and asking for prayers on Facebook, I think my assumption is correct.
They’re expected to do nothing that bothers or burdens anyone else and then die, as far as I can tell. They can just skip to the last part if they want, as long as it still fulfills the requirements of the first part.
Well, not stab children.
Why can’t mentally unwell people just behave mentally well?
Have you ever tried just not being mentally ill? Someone told me to just not be depressed, which I hadn’t ever thought of!
I get it that it comes off as “just feel better bro” but if society can’t draw the line at “don’t stab children, it’s literally never acceptable, regardless of circumstances” then what’s even the point?
Edit to be clear I took issue with the “what else are they supposed to do?” As if there’s ever a set of mental or external circumstances that normalize what happened. There isn’t.
Society does draw that line. That’s why he was arrested.
Indeed, and there’s no need for excusatory language like “what else could they possibly have done?”
I think you misunderstood. They were literally asking what people in those circumstances can do. I don’t think they’re justifying the actions.
Nobody is saying it’s acceptable just that it’s avoidable, and someone can be apprehended for security and later treated and found not criminally responsible for their actions.
If you haven’t been in a disassociative state, it’s fucking wild. Nothing feels “real” and everything is foggy. It’s like you’re walking through a foggy liminal space and the walls are glass, on the other side is reality, and you can’t get to the other side. You’re lonely, nothing feels right, and you are detached from the world, loved ones, and any positive emotion/connection.
I’m not defending the dude, but I do want to explain that actions get weird/crazy and sometimes you don’t remember if things actually happened or not. You start to feel like a rat in a cage, or slowly give up.
normally when they say slashing throat, I assume death. looks like the girl was ok though cause she ran home to get help
Was probably a shallow wound, either that or the kid is made of the same spite and wroth that an old Vietnam vet I met was made of, he sowed his throat back up after it was slashed by a mentally unstable squad mate who lost it.
Is that an actual story? Link?
Met, old bastard ran a gas station that I was stuck at until AAA got a car out to fix my main tire.
Wasn’t that bad, the children kept playing, they were just horrified.
There’s lots of parts and depths of your neck you can cut and not die. It’s just that there are also lots of parts that you can’t.
Always make me think of that hockey goalie that got his jugular cut. (He didn’t die either.)
Yeah this headline is pure, misleading clickbait,
I can’t believe the horrified kids kept playing.
This sounds like a wkuk episode
Look out kids, it’s the Grapist!
They are saying they can’t prove it’s a hate crime. Just ask him where he keeps his red hat and to really get him, ask foe his opinions on migrants.
Wouldn’t necessarily put this to a political side. Dude was just crazy
Yeah, a crazy, religious, republican white dude that slashed the throat of a brown-skinned girl with a head covering on.
I hate to tell you this, but you can be crazy and politically motivated. The distinction is becoming increasingly difficult to make.
There were dozens of republican “totally not crazy people” calling for a meteorologist to be murdered because she simply reported on the last hurricane, because she was part of the vast, laser-wielding, weather-controlling leftist cabal. A theory propagated by right-wing talking heads and mainstream, right-wing politicians.
Being mentally unstable does not mean racist political motivations somehow “don’t count.” It’s not even always clear what the order of influence is.
Nothing in the article says anything about his politics. I don’t understand why I’m being downvotes
🙄
Because you’re going against the Lemmy hive mind.
Because both sides have extremists. And the liberal extremists live here. Just keep in mind society failed the extremists on both sides. It isn’t entirely thier fault.
Dude was just crazy
Aren’t MAGAs crazy?
Dude was just crazy
If not for conservatives, the U.S. would have mental healthcare support systems the way every other developed nation on earth does.
Conservatives don’t believe the study of psychology is valuable. They do not support mental healthcare. They do not believe the science of mental healthcare. Conservatives did this and they continue to insist on these conditions on a national scale. Fuck conservatives. They are 100% responsible for attacks by mentally ill people.
This isn’t politics. This is good vs evil, plain and simple. Conservatism is a scourge of oppression and death. It always has been.
Don’t act like you don’t recognize one of your own.
Wouldn’t necessarily put this to a political side. Dude was just crazy
Both things can be true at the same time.
/r/titlegore
(OP didn’t write the title, don’t blame OP)
Was guy also police?
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Can’t have shit in Detroit smdh
