A Storm is Coming
Video of an active duty soldier who suffers from PTSD who eventually died while in custody of the El Paso County Sheriff's Office is on the KFOX website. You can see it here.
It is going to be a big political storm for El Paso and for the Sheriff. The video is already showing up on Fox News but it will likely be a national story very soon.
Nothing underscores the need for more investment in mental health services.
First, lets just rip off the band aid and be straight up about why this is going to be a big deal. It is yet another African American man that has died allegedly because of an incident with law enforcement.
He was active duty military. He was not arrested on a violent offense. He turned himself in to the SO's to do a weekend sentence.
For whatever reason, possibly having to do with PTSD, SGT James Brown, injured himself. An extraction team went in to remove him from his cell. The video shows the incident.
I'm not offering commentary on how the SO's proceeded. I don't know enough about the process to offer any commentary on that, so this post isn't me saying the SO's were right or wrong. I don't know if they were.
All I am saying is that this is going to be a story that catches on and will have El Paso in the headlines in a very negative way. It is going to be a pressure cooker for the Sheriff because of the circumstances of the incident.
Trust me on this one.
It is going to be a big political storm for El Paso and for the Sheriff. The video is already showing up on Fox News but it will likely be a national story very soon.
Nothing underscores the need for more investment in mental health services.
First, lets just rip off the band aid and be straight up about why this is going to be a big deal. It is yet another African American man that has died allegedly because of an incident with law enforcement.
He was active duty military. He was not arrested on a violent offense. He turned himself in to the SO's to do a weekend sentence.
For whatever reason, possibly having to do with PTSD, SGT James Brown, injured himself. An extraction team went in to remove him from his cell. The video shows the incident.
I'm not offering commentary on how the SO's proceeded. I don't know enough about the process to offer any commentary on that, so this post isn't me saying the SO's were right or wrong. I don't know if they were.
All I am saying is that this is going to be a story that catches on and will have El Paso in the headlines in a very negative way. It is going to be a pressure cooker for the Sheriff because of the circumstances of the incident.
Trust me on this one.
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