Brickbat: Cold Injustice

According to his death certificate, Anthony Don Mitchell died as a result of hypothermia as well as "sepsis resulting from infections injuries obtained during incarceration and medical neglect." Mitchell was held for 14 days in the Walker County, Alabama, jail after he fired a gun towards officers who had come to his home for a welfare check. Mitchell had become delusional, and a cousin called 911 because he thought Mitchell needed psychiatric help. According to a lawsuit filed by his mother, Mitchell was held in a cell known as "the freezer" because staff were able to blow cold air into it. According to notes from the doctor who treated Mitchell when he was finally taken to the emergency room, he arrived with a rectal temperature of 72 degrees Fahrenheit. The doctor's notes said he found it difficult to understand how someone being incarcerated could have such a low temperature.

Comments

[AT]

Mitchell had become delusional

You disgusting bigot. He was just living his true self.

[SQRLSY One]

Take-away is, no matter how bad of a shape your friend or relative is in, if you call the cops, you are at risk of killing him or her!

I really wish that the statisticians and epidemiologists would provide use some TRULY USEFUL data some time: Given that you call the cops for a "welfare check" on a distressed or whacked-out person, what is the probability that you're killing or crippling this person? Broken down by what region that you live in, would be good...

[SQRLSY One]

I did my best and asked my favorite AI, "Perplexity", and, in summary, no statistics are to be had here...

Q: Are there any statistics concerning the following: In recent years in the USA, given that the police are called for a "welfare check" on a mentally ill or agitated person, what is the probability that this person being given a "welfare check" will shortly thereafter be killed by the police, or by jailers, through neglect or abuse, in jail?

A: The sources provided do not contain specific statistics or data related to the probability of a mentally ill or agitated person being killed by the police or jailers shortly after a welfare check in the USA. The information in the sources focuses on various aspects of police operations, civil liability lawsuits, and specific incidents but does not provide the statistical analysis required to answer the question accurately.

[AT]

I did my best and asked my favorite AI

"Your best."

LMAO.

[SQRLSY One]

Then do better, asshole!!! Ye who distracts the cops and jailers away from doing a good job handling the mentally ill, by distracting them away with duties like forcibly restraining womb-slaves, that they may be implanted with tested-and-known-genetically-defective frozen Sacred Fartilized Egg Smells!!! And capturing and punishing fugitive fartility doctors ass well!!!

Frozen Egg Smells are SACRED, butt assholes do SNOT care about frozen jail inmates!!! WTF, assholes?

[SQRLSY One]

I think that I’ve now fingered out the infinitely self-righteous mentality of fanatics such ass AT!

“I have captured, In My Perfect Mind, a Pervfect Vision of Pervfection! Only evil and perversion-infected people engage in projection, and call MEEE perverted and infected!

“Butt hear MEEE out: In order for us all to Attain My Pervfect Vision of Pervfection, ALL that we need to do, is to find ALL of the perverts who oppose MEEE, and asphyxiate, strangulate, poison, freeze, burn, and-or otherwise “capitally punish” them, until Pervfection is Attained!”

[sarcasmic]

I think that I’ve now fingered out the infinitely self-righteous mentality of fanatics such ass AT!

It’s much simpler than that. He and the usual suspects, they know who they are, lack the mental capacity to discuss topics, ideas, or events. However they can attack people, so that’s what they do.

Watch as a dozen of them attack this observation by claiming I’m doing what they do and calling me a hypocrite, proving my point by making it all about me instead of the topic (attacking people instead of discussing the topic, event or idea).

[LIBertrans]

?? I even popped popcorn to watch Sarcasmic beat up the howling mob of girl-bullying telefalangistas... Y nada! Not even a blank hand of mute rectangles. *SNIF*

[AT]

In fairness, I'm (I don't know who else you're talking about) am usually taking aim at the article's author because they put up brazenly false and misleading stuff.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Society would break down if we actually filed criminal charges.

[LIBertrans]

Charles O simply HAD to include that temperature reading! Next up: the heartwarming story of a pious young incel MAGA necrophiliac who finally achieved his boyhood ambition by becoming coroner.

[MatthewSlyfield]

"officers who had come to his home for a welfare check. Mitchell had become delusional, and a cousin called 911 because he thought Mitchell needed psychiatric help."

Yes, lets send armed government agents to check on the welfare of a man who is delusional and paranoid. What could possibly go wrong?

[Inigo Montoya]

I don’t understand why paramedics wouldn’t be the ones to do welfare checks. I guess who gets sent is up to the 911 dispatcher, but why always send the cops? It’s like they’re hoping the person in potential distress gets shot or at least arrested.