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Demovictory9

(35,431 posts) Wed Apr 23, 2025, 06:49 PM 10 hrs ago

man was having mental health crisis. Cops punch and taser him while trying to get him into ambulance. He's dead

https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/23/john-scott-death-decatur-alabama-punch-taser-mental-health/

A Black Alabama man who was hospitalized last week after he was punched and Tasered by police has died.

John Scott Jr., a 41-year-old Decatur resident, died Tuesday after being in a coma.

“My son John Scott is no longer with us. He fought a good fight,” Paulette Tennison-Sanders wrote on Facebook.

Scott Jr. was arrested April 15 after his mother called police because she feared he was off his medication and experiencing a mental health crisis.

Video shows Scott Jr. begin to panic as police officers try to get him into an ambulance.

He is then punched and Tasered while officers try to pin his arms behind his back while Scott screams “I’m sorry.”

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man was having mental health crisis. Cops punch and taser him while trying to get him into ambulance. He's dead (Original Post) Demovictory9 10 hrs ago OP

Beyond ridiculous! SheltieLover 10 hrs ago #1

This is who we are funding SunImp 10 hrs ago #2

WTF! 😩🤬🤬🤬 electric_blue68 10 hrs ago #3

There is virtually no situation the police won't make worse. rsdsharp 9 hrs ago #4

Respect my authoritah! JoseBalow 9 hrs ago #6

Small female therapists and nurses take down mentally ill patients every day. Irish_Dem 9 hrs ago #5

NEVER call 911 if somebody is having a mental health crisis. yardwork 9 hrs ago #7

SheltieLover

(66,752 posts)

1. Beyond ridiculous!

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Wed Apr 23, 2025, 06:52 PM

10 hrs ago

SunImp

(2,471 posts)

2. This is who we are funding

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Wed Apr 23, 2025, 07:05 PM

10 hrs ago

electric_blue68

(20,971 posts)

3. WTF! 😩🤬🤬🤬

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Wed Apr 23, 2025, 07:13 PM

10 hrs ago

rsdsharp

(10,677 posts)

4. There is virtually no situation the police won't make worse.

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Wed Apr 23, 2025, 07:17 PM

9 hrs ago

They think everything that falls out of their pie holes is a “lawful order,” and if you won’t obey them, their default is to resort to violence.

JoseBalow

(7,252 posts)

6. Respect my authoritah!

Reply to rsdsharp (Reply #4)

Wed Apr 23, 2025, 07:32 PM

9 hrs ago

Irish_Dem

(68,459 posts)

5. Small female therapists and nurses take down mentally ill patients every day.

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Wed Apr 23, 2025, 07:25 PM

9 hrs ago

In outpatient and inpatient clinics.

They can do it without injury and don't have to kill anyone.

The train and practice for it and know what they are doing.

yardwork

(66,311 posts)

7. NEVER call 911 if somebody is having a mental health crisis.

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Wed Apr 23, 2025, 07:38 PM

9 hrs ago

The cops will make it worse. People in law enforcement have told me this.

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