Herman Whitfield's Family Called for Help During a Mental Health Crisis. Cops Killed Him Instead

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  • Опубликовано: 4 янв 2025

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  • @earthpearl3790
    @earthpearl3790 25 дней назад +24

    I don’t think emergency services should have responded like that.

    • @ninadaly7639
      @ninadaly7639 25 дней назад

      Then who should have? And how?

    • @Curt-Gevert
      @Curt-Gevert 24 дня назад

      @@ninadaly7639 In this person's mind, a fairy with pixy dust should have responded.

    • @gloriaf6971
      @gloriaf6971 23 дня назад

      Medical professionals who are trained and have had experience dealing with people who are mentally disturbed or are having a mental crisis are the ones who should be cslled on in a situation like this one. ​@ninadaly7639

  • @TwoStepsAhead222
    @TwoStepsAhead222 25 дней назад +22

    Sending love to Herman’s family.

  • @thaynetuason
    @thaynetuason 25 дней назад +18

    Up to half of the people police kill are having a mental health moment at the time and most are killed within feet of their homes, and often when family or friends call for help. I'm not saying you shouldn't call 911 is someone is seriously going to die, but you do not want to call 911 and have someone not make it because of this fact.

    • @ninadaly7639
      @ninadaly7639 25 дней назад

      Never dealt with a psychotic person, huh?

    • @ronstephen-wy4ib
      @ronstephen-wy4ib 24 дня назад +1

      Certainly. They're dealing with commenter like you and Curt.

    • @ninadaly7639
      @ninadaly7639 24 дня назад

      @@ronstephen-wy4ib Charming.

  • @menudobucket9837
    @menudobucket9837 25 дней назад +24

    This is what an empire in decline looks like.

    • @jaredmadsen7114
      @jaredmadsen7114 25 дней назад +3

      Whether in decline or rising, anything to do with empire is intrinsically inequitable and at its core, violent.

    • @menudobucket9837
      @menudobucket9837 25 дней назад +1

      @~ no argument..

    • @redixdoragon
      @redixdoragon 24 дня назад +3

      Entering the terminal stages

  • @user-randi1987
    @user-randi1987 25 дней назад +11

    My sympathy to Hermans family, this was terrible and should not have happened

  • @JoanKirk-jm5lh
    @JoanKirk-jm5lh 25 дней назад +6

    This is so so bad 😢 sending love and support to his family

  • @butterflylily7207
    @butterflylily7207 25 дней назад +23

    By not holding law enforcement accountable for thier actions, makes them untouchable and embolden to continue doing this!.. I never understand how a jury can decide a not guilty verdict smh

    • @Curt-Gevert
      @Curt-Gevert 24 дня назад +2

      They looked at the evidence and decided that there wasn't enough to convict. Law enforcement was held to account, these guys went to trial and were cleared of wrongdoing.

    • @ronstephen-wy4ib
      @ronstephen-wy4ib 24 дня назад

      😂🤣😂🤣😂 there nothing funnier than seeing someone displaying willful ignorance and thinking others don't see through it. 😂🤣😂🤣😂

  • @gloriaf6971
    @gloriaf6971 25 дней назад +19

    If a family calls for an ambulance, why would police officers be sent to answer that call? That makes no sense. The family should definitely sue the city that is responsible for sending police officers instead of the requested ambulance.

    • @Curt-Gevert
      @Curt-Gevert 25 дней назад +1

      Typically, if there is a concern for the ambulance crew, they would request police clear the scene to make sure it's safe for the paramedics.

    • @gloriaf6971
      @gloriaf6971 25 дней назад

      @Curt-Gevert But does that mean the cops are supposed to use enough force to kill the patient that the paramedics were sent to assist? Also, why not let the paramedics at least see what is happening with the person before the cops start brutalizing him?

    • @Curt-Gevert
      @Curt-Gevert 25 дней назад +1

      @@Alienwatcher Probably because I've seen it, versus some AH who thinks he knows.

    • @Curt-Gevert
      @Curt-Gevert 25 дней назад

      @@gloriaf6971 Have you seen people freaking out on the drugs he was on? no probably not.

    • @ninadaly7639
      @ninadaly7639 25 дней назад +1

      Don’t be ridiculous. They called the cops because he was acting psychotic and they feared for their own safety. What the hell else could have been done and by whom?

  • @kevinwilliams1768
    @kevinwilliams1768 25 дней назад +8

    condolences to the family

  • @3373-g8z
    @3373-g8z 25 дней назад +18

    That’s a strike against all musicians! We’re a crazy bunch! This guy was too beautiful for this world. Gone way too soon! This wasn’t some gang member! This was a guy that just needed help!

    • @KatharinaK117
      @KatharinaK117 25 дней назад +2

      🙏🏼

    • @conor7154
      @conor7154 23 дня назад +1

      I love how transparent you all are about your sainting of violent criminals. His own family called 911 to report him, but now he’s a “beautiful helpless musician”

  • @longshank59
    @longshank59 24 дня назад +3

    The apartment complex I live in TX. There's lot's of people under Guardians. There's several who have mental collapses. Had one recently that one of the neighbor's who call Police there were 4 Cop cars who showed up no sirens just flashing lights. There was one beside my apartment that had an assault weapon drawn. They told her to come out she didn't and one parked next to her apartment went below window and said if you don't come out I'm breaking down the door. She finally opened the door and they tackled her to the ground. As a Vet4Peace I've seen the evil this country has done around the World

  • @melissabruhn1429
    @melissabruhn1429 25 дней назад +13

    Indiana has a history. In political circles called "middle finger of the South". Please read Timothy Egan's "Fever in the Heartland". Marion, Indiana...last known "lynching in the North"...history rhymes. Thank you for coverage.

  • @august9006
    @august9006 14 дней назад +1

    WHY ISN'T OFFICERS TRAINING INCLUDE MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS TO DEESCALATE CALLS INVOLVING ISSUES AS THESE.

  • @Guajiro-b2k
    @Guajiro-b2k 25 дней назад +9

    They dialed the wrong number. It's 988. Not 911.
    If your county does not have a mental health hotline on 988, and only offers suicide hotline instead, they need to get with the times.

    • @ninadaly7639
      @ninadaly7639 25 дней назад +2

      Cops would still have gone if he was acting psychotic.

    • @ninadaly7639
      @ninadaly7639 25 дней назад

      @ I am quite aware that when an individual is in a violent and potentially dangerous state, the cops will be sent. Why do you think his parents called 911? Because they were scared of him. He was psychotic running around naked!

    • @Ichimokulover
      @Ichimokulover 24 дня назад

      911 operators should transfer mental health callers to the 988 hotline. I didn't even know about the number.
      Wellness checks should also never be done by cops.

  • @jamesbroomfield7799
    @jamesbroomfield7799 25 дней назад +5

    The thing is when my daughter had E coli sepsis in her bloodstream due to a urinary tract infection that she didn't realize she had, it costs similar symptoms to a paranoid schizophrenic and we were going crazy because she would not sleep for over a week straight she would stand up in the middle of the hallway and just stand there and stare into our room, I started getting worried that she might come in with a knife and stab us. But my thing is that she is a pretty girl and only weighs like 110 lb soaking wet 5 ft tall so the police aren't going to deem her as a problem. Thank God she was already kind of out of it when they showed up she was already laying in the street huffing and puffing out of breath staring at the sky when the police got here but prior to that she was running down the street trying to open people's car doors as they're backing out of their driveway and then a work truck drove by really slow and wondering what was going on and she ran and jumped on the back of their truck back bumper and was standing on it holding onto their ladder rack and I try to pull her off the back three times and couldn't and finally I use every liquor strength I had left and pulled her off and she even cut her finger on the ladder rack she had like superhuman strength, you would think for not sleeping for 8 days that she would be fatigued and tired but no it was the opposite it's almost like you're human brain can give you superpowers if need be, it's crazy how the human brain works. We even took her to the hospital five different times prior to that because this whole ordeal was like 2 weeks in the making and then finally the last two days I found out she had a urinary tract infection sent her home and then she would not take the antibiotics obviously because she was going through like paranoid schizophrenic mentality and by the time the next day came she was already septic with E coli in her bloodstream. Finally they took her to the doctor same emergency room and the daytime doctor knew right away what it was when they found out she had a urinary tract infection the day before but by this time I had a scratches on my face from her she cut her finger she could have ran into someone's house and gotten killed by somebody all because the emergency room didn't want to do their job

  • @BijunaJ
    @BijunaJ 25 дней назад +9

    Tasers should not be used on those suffering from mental health crises

    • @ninadaly7639
      @ninadaly7639 25 дней назад

      You would prefer guns?

    • @Curt-Gevert
      @Curt-Gevert 24 дня назад

      What do you suggest, pixy dust?

    • @BijunaJ
      @BijunaJ 24 дня назад +1

      @Curt-Gevert not tasers.this is not the first death or damage caused by tasers. why was the ambulance not called .they

    • @BijunaJ
      @BijunaJ 24 дня назад +1

      @Curt-Gevert they are people and should be treated likewise .

    • @ninadaly7639
      @ninadaly7639 24 дня назад

      @@BijunaJ But they don’t act like “people” in a psychotic state, do they? They can get violent. They could seriously hurt or kill someone or themselves in that case. They HAVE TO be restrained.

  • @2BEGOOD_DOGOOD
    @2BEGOOD_DOGOOD 25 дней назад +10

    My condolences to the family. Those officers are clearly murderers. It is a serious injustice that they are free.

    • @Curt-Gevert
      @Curt-Gevert 25 дней назад +1

      Not according to the jury

    • @cherylwin9364
      @cherylwin9364 25 дней назад +3

      ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF THE MOST HIGH THEY ARE GUILTY 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

    • @Curt-Gevert
      @Curt-Gevert 24 дня назад

      @@cherylwin9364 Most people should concern themselves with the law of the land, first.

  • @laurafay2796
    @laurafay2796 25 дней назад +9

    Condolences to the family. This should not have happened

  • @gordonjolivette5219
    @gordonjolivette5219 25 дней назад +2

    These people would be more honest calling themselves Communist Now.

  • @amylynn732
    @amylynn732 25 дней назад +4

    How did the jury reach an acquital?!?!

    • @ninadaly7639
      @ninadaly7639 25 дней назад

      Very easily. The guy was violent and in a psychotic episode.

    • @cherylwin9364
      @cherylwin9364 25 дней назад +2

      THEY WILL HAVE TO ANSWER TO THE MOST HIGH FOR THEIR UNJUST DECISION 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

    • @ninadaly7639
      @ninadaly7639 25 дней назад

      @@cherylwin9364 I don’t think most high will have a problem.

    • @melissabruhn1429
      @melissabruhn1429 25 дней назад +3

      @@amylynn732 Indiana FOP has quite a rich and powerful lobby in Indiana...with non-transparent GOP supermajority for more than 20 years. Indiana has the worst transparency laws of political contributions of any state in US.

    • @Curt-Gevert
      @Curt-Gevert 24 дня назад

      They looked at the evidence and decided, not guilty. Pretty simple.

  • @feddi7693
    @feddi7693 24 дня назад +1

    Sending much love to his family💯🙏🏽

  • @yassine8935
    @yassine8935 25 дней назад +1

    This is exactly why I didn't want to call the police on my mother who was in a psychosis spiral even when she got violent , police aren't trained to react to mental health issues with deescalation unless your dam near fully complient with them it's why we saw in the sonya Massey case the police that visited her earlier were willing to talk and deescalate because she was complient but the officer later in her home was quick to take her not being complient and acting like someone who's going through a mental health struggle as a threat even tho he is the one armed not her . Police are trained to see a threat and shoot/taze first and ask questions later & our "justice system" clearly agrees with it considering in majority of these cases the police get off scot free let's not forget the largest union in America is the police union . Rest in power Herman ✊🏿💕

    • @Blah4444
      @Blah4444 24 дня назад +1

      Especially when they're combat veterans.

  • @factsnotfeelings3247
    @factsnotfeelings3247 25 дней назад +11

    Now, the case makes sense. This looks like it was retaliation against the mom by the cops because she was a lawyer and judge.

    • @Curt-Gevert
      @Curt-Gevert 25 дней назад +1

      The jury acquitted them, so no retaliation in that.

    • @factsnotfeelings3247
      @factsnotfeelings3247 25 дней назад +1

      @@Curt-Gevert Sounds like you are saying "im whyte and i say so", no?

    • @melissabruhn1429
      @melissabruhn1429 25 дней назад +1

      ​@Curt-Gevert Indiana has history and a culture only further perpetuated by a predominately white GOP supermajority. Read Timothy Egan's " Fever in the Heartland". Also see the so called "last lynching in the north" in Marion Indiana.

  • @jaredmadsen7114
    @jaredmadsen7114 25 дней назад +1

    So sad, so sad😢 ‘I have never been able to understand the mindset of anybody who would intentionally inflict harm on another life. We can no longer accept the normalization of violence, not only within our societies, but within our world. It is anathema to the creator and to Love, the only reality.. We must recognize ourselves in others and others in ourselves. We must foster not only compassion , but true and real empathy, recognizing that all are connected, in order for us to evolve, to expand. We must to do it together in cooperation. Be kind and do no harm. Blessings to all…❤❤❤

    • @nolanbrown6699
      @nolanbrown6699 22 дня назад

      Absolutely heart breaking 😢
      Demons inhuman trash but time is the master.
      RIEP KINGMAN 😢❤

  • @sylvias1966
    @sylvias1966 22 дня назад

    I am so sorry for what happened to him and his family!
    I am also shocked about the officers not being sentenced guilty!

  • @darlenedowie2926
    @darlenedowie2926 25 дней назад +7

    Wow! This is straight-up not surprising nor shocking because there no compassion for Black people, no matter who they are. Black people please stop calling the police officers for our family members. Damn, the mother is a judge.

    • @joeboudreault4351
      @joeboudreault4351 25 дней назад

      Victimhood game plain and simple.

    • @darlenedowie2926
      @darlenedowie2926 25 дней назад

      @joeboudreault4351 No, it is you justifying two police officers straight up killing a Black man who had emotional problems. The man's mother called for an ambulance, not the death squad. The Black man didn't deserve to die, but he needed medical treatment.

    • @darlenedowie2926
      @darlenedowie2926 25 дней назад +4

      @joeboudreault4351 your comment shows who you are

    • @joeboudreault4351
      @joeboudreault4351 25 дней назад

      ​@@darlenedowie2926 ... and who you are...

  • @TheKathybarth
    @TheKathybarth 25 дней назад +4

    There should be special mental health crisis teams that handle these cases - NOT the police. Trained individuals who know - and can take the time- to de escalate and help those in mental crisis. How many times is this same scenario going to play out? Police are NOT the ones to handle these situations.

    • @doloresmartinez2434
      @doloresmartinez2434 25 дней назад

      Family would need to pay for that type of service not tax payers. And if there son had issues should be in a phacility that specializes in care for mental issues.

    • @ninadaly7639
      @ninadaly7639 25 дней назад

      Mental health experts are not equipped to deal with dangerous psychotics.

  • @realcomedyperrycoalmon9407
    @realcomedyperrycoalmon9407 25 дней назад +2

    What were those idiot cops doing at ages 4 and 6.

  • @facingeast7956
    @facingeast7956 24 дня назад +1

    So sad. So very sad. A sacrifice for these non-humans. And they do it so often. But it is soon coming to an end.

  • @medleybyers5037
    @medleybyers5037 25 дней назад +2

    Y'all, it gets even more insulting and ridiculous. The coroner blamed his death on THC and his weight, because we all know fat people are dropping dead from getting high every day. 🙄

  • @factsnotfeelings3247
    @factsnotfeelings3247 25 дней назад +9

    Stop calling WS.

  • @Seekthetruth3000
    @Seekthetruth3000 25 дней назад +7

    We need better mental health in this country.

    • @redixdoragon
      @redixdoragon 24 дня назад

      We don't have a country conducive to mental health.

  • @Hive_Atlas
    @Hive_Atlas 25 дней назад +1

    It's sad that his dad wants his son to be remembered for his music, but this clip doesn't show his music. I think these kinds of news pieces also contribute to dehumanizing the black people who are killed. The black people become a headline of police brutality, but we don't get to see their humanity, and that's really the root of the problem in all this.

  • @DanielWhite-v4e
    @DanielWhite-v4e 25 дней назад +1

    cops can and should do better as a matter of course - says the cops' best friend

  • @markward3981
    @markward3981 25 дней назад +3

    Thanks To Democracy Now ✨✨✨
    for reporting this.
    Condolences to his family, friends and community.
    Advice to black people, take care of your own before the tragedy, favor your own before others without hating anyone. Live by your own , buy from your own, educate your own and defend your own. You cant force anyone to help you, love you nor accept you. This is a difficult pill 💊 to swallow but necessary.
    We keep doing this same dance and circle expecting a different result.

  • @lizzapaolia959
    @lizzapaolia959 24 дня назад

    Interesting 🤔 looks like a civic improvement. These clowns are such a disaster.
    God bless our founding fathers and European brothers and sisters 🙏🎄❄️

  • @WallaceAhtone-pl9kb
    @WallaceAhtone-pl9kb 23 дня назад

    We need to be able to see the rest of that video to draw any conclusions; otherwise, we’re left just taking somebody’s word for it.

  • @nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115
    @nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 24 дня назад

    They allegedly say.

  • @ninadaly7639
    @ninadaly7639 25 дней назад +2

    Kiss your civil claims goodbye. The boy had an enlarged heart and a blood pressure problem.

  • @lizzapaolia959
    @lizzapaolia959 24 дня назад

    Interesting 🤔 definitely a civic improvement.

  • @souriyamoua6584
    @souriyamoua6584 25 дней назад +4

    Why do people call cops, stupid thing to do ever

  • @the__source
    @the__source 24 дня назад +1

    Law enforcemnt is an oxymoron

  • @Seafarers3333-k5y
    @Seafarers3333-k5y 25 дней назад +2

    "No Justice, No Peace!" David Jefferson USN

    • @doloresmartinez2434
      @doloresmartinez2434 25 дней назад

      The opposite stop blaming everyone exept the person is the problem. If you call the police, guess what police are coming as requested. Open back up mental health phacilities.