SINCE WHEN do mental breakdowns kill people in police custody? "Bowie State Advisor Dies After Possible Mental Breakdown" http://bowie.patch.com/articles/bowie-state-advisor-dies-after-possible-mental-breakdown - "Police transported Patrick Raphael Toney to the hospital Friday after he was acting irrationally in a busy intersection in Odenton. He died Wednesday [at Baltimore Washington Medical Center], and the cause is under investigation." The report says police had shackled Toney when he began acting irrationally. Hopefully, further reports will reveal what happened to Toney in police custody between his arrest on Friday, April 13 and his death on Wednesday, April 18. Dr. Randy Short, a collegue of Toney's, doubts that Toney experienced a mental breakdown. Short said that Toney was a very stable man, he will likely continue to doubt that a mental health crisis precipitated Toney's death even after qualified psychiatric reports are given, if any.
See Mary Neal's articles regarding Mitrice Richardson, of California. She disappeared for a year after reportedly being released from police custody in a desert area at 1:30 a.m. without her car, money, or water. Her bones were recovered from a shallow desert grave a year later. Timothy "Bulldog" Allen of Benton Harbor, Michigan was "missing" for months after being last seen speaking with police on a St. Joseph, Michigan bridge. Police refused to drag the lake for his body, which surfaced in the lake a month later (after cause of death was not easy to discern). Carlos Umana, a Latino, starved to death in solitary confinement in a private jail in Utah in February 2012 within four months of his arrest. There are others. What is happening to black and Hispanic people in America who have mental health challenges? Why is Larry Neal's death in secret jail custody treated like a national secret?
Carlos Umana's emaciated corpse.
Entered jail at 180 pounds, exited as 77 pound corpse
Toney's death and others evidence the mass incarceration and deaths of mentally ill minorities that happen nationwide. His death is the Maryland story. Approximately 1.25 million mentally ill people are currently imprisoned rather than treated in mental hospitals or community care programs like they should be. When emergency response is required for anyone having a physical health crisis, ambulances speedily transport crisis victims to HOSPITALS. But in the USA, when people have mental health crises, they are immediately JAILED FOR THEIR ILLEGAL HEALTH DISABILITY. OTHERS ARE PROMPTLY KILLED DURING THE LUNACY ARREST OR SLOWLY KILLED BY NEGLECT OR DESIGN WHILE UNDER INCARCERATION, WHITES INCLUDED.
Google "Timothy Sauders" to access information and a television documentary about a Caucasian youth who died of dehydration and CRUELTY after four days in restraint in a Michigan jail. See articles about Sean LeVert, a famous entertainer, who died after restraint during a crisis in a jail where he was interned on a child support charge. Google "Taser and Shooting Deaths of the Mentally Ill" to read about numerous fatal lunacy arrests. Visit "Dog Justice for Mentally Ill" blog at http://DogJusticetoMentallyIll.blogspot.com to learn about mentally challenged people facing imprisonment for being sick and some who are already unfairly punished and usually excessively sentenced for behavior caused by untreated mental illness.
The mentally ill are at a tremendous disadvantage during criminal investigations. The mentally challenged and children are responsible for around 25 percent of false confessions that lead to wrongful convictions. During trials, judges and juries usually see mental patients who were treated to get them "trial ready" and not the sick person who police arrested. Therefore, insanity pleas are not often successful.
Imprisonment and unexplained deaths must stop being America's response to mental illness. Consider the fact that police were recently absolved of all charges in the death of an Autistic youth. When Autism became very common a number of years ago, my advocacy to decriminalize mental illness in some of the Autistic online groups was not welcomed by group administrators. Those children are now entering adulthood and going to jail or being brutalized in growing numbers. Hopefully, parents and guardians of Autistic children now recognize that their children are also at risk along with veterans suffering PTSD and persons with bipolar disorder, age onset dementia, schizophrenia, and depression.
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED TO PROTECT MENTALLY CHALLENGED PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO LIFE IN THE USA. Start by demanding full accountability regarding the secret arrest and wrongful death of Larry Neal. Please write to Attorney General Eric Holder at the United States Department of Justice: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov - Request justice from the agency that has the responsibility of protecting the rights of institutionalized persons (in prisons, jails, hospitals, nursing homes, care homes, etc.). Demand an end to health discrimination. Mental illness should be treated medically, not legally. While writing, please congratulate the USDOJ for certifying Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) programs, which provide for mandated treatment for acute mental patients and subsistence assistance.
After writing to the USDOJ, please contact officials in your state to ensure that AOT programs are used there rather than condemning acute mental patients to forever revolve in and out of prisons until they eventually die of violence or neglect or bring harm to you or your neighbors and thereafter be used to enrich prison investors at taxpayers' expense.
Mentally ill people who die in custody or during lunacy arrests need Dog Justice. At least the same accountability should be demanded for people as is required after dog deaths. Thank you in advance for participating in making our beloved country more just and compassionate. Our condolences to the family of Patrick Toney. We empathize with all neglected, brutalized, and murdered people in America and their families. Visit Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI), and consider joining the advocacy to decriminalize mental illness. Unite for justice.
"All we say to America is be true to what you said on paper." ~ Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sean LeVert
Not everyone has the connections that famous singer Sean LeVert had, but no deaths in government custody should be covered-up and ignored according to the victims' socioeconomic status or race. One day I will publish some of the videos showing the cyberstalking I encountered trying to publish articles and photos of Mitrice Richardson and other missing and murdered mental patients with my other real-time cyberstalking videos at YouTube channel JKEMPP703. It was very challenging for me to publish the article entitled "Mitrice Richardson Found Dead" at http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/mitrice-richardson-found-dead.html - Google "Mary Neal" with the names of any people in this article for individual reports about their cases. Call 678.531.0262 or email me at MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com for more information regarding other mentally challenged victims and advocacy to decriminalize mental illness in America.Mary Neal
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On my view of my Twitter posts, cyberstalkers only let two of my recent @koffietime tweets show. The third should be a tweet to @justiacom and @NAMISF and @RCdeWinter. Perhaps my tweet never actually went to those addressees and is therefore not allowed to show on my page where my last five tweets should show.
@justiacom @NAMISF @RCdeWinter ANOTHER person dead in police custody after alleged mental crisis http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/patrick-raphael-toney-mental-crisis.html Many avoidable deaths
Do cyberstalkers think I am ignorant of their schemes after all the years they interfered with my articles and tweets and I recorded their antics on videos published at YouTube channel JKEMPP703, or do their bosses not PRETEND Americans have freedom of press any longer?
Mary
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