Chewy, I'm tellin ya, anecdotally, if I had complied with that sheriff when he tried to arrest me (and he was grasping at straws to pin me with some charge) I wouldn't be a free man right now.
I'd be locked in western state hospital (the place where they drug their prisoners with liver rotting poison) with no rights at all. And for what? Uncontrollable crying and hating my existence in a manic depressive state?! That's complete and utter bullsh!t. Consequentially motivates my participation in the DGR. But I digress.
Repeatedly refusing to go anywhere without a lawyer/advocate saved me from being labeled a mentally ill "criminal".
So maybe I'm biased in regard to the subject. But I'm not going to be taken without a proper and legally appropriate fight.
That really sucks man! I feel bad for you. The cops obviously need training to spot people who are having mental trouble anxiety, depression or some other condition too.
Getting everyone scared out of their mind of the police only causes more people to be fearful and make mistakes. And yes I do know about the Amigdual aka lizzard brain. It is used in marketing and fear based selling all the time.
The news media is not their to help anyone, but their shareholders. There have been instances at peak of the shootings where "activist" would making false calls saying I saw a man with a gun, and sure enough the police show up guns ablazing. Just so they can have a viral video. They get off scott free.
People need to wake up and start using their brains more and not living in fear of everything. When you are in fear you can't make good decisions at all, and they know. That is how they control the masses. Keeping them in fear.
I am lucky my old man told me how to act in these situations, or I am sure I would be in a body bag today.
Lots of those young men do not have fathers in their home to set a good example for them. What do we do about that.
I know we get the #NOTMYPROBLEM team going.
Bottom line scaring the heck out of everyone just results in more violence. So if you have a friend who is afraid of the police reassure them them will be safe if they follow a few simple instructions. Mentally impaired people are another story.
Maybe have them wear a shirt or sign, or something to alert others as to why they are acting the way they are.
Their is solutions everywhere, but fear is not one that is going to work.