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One last pat down before the ride to booking
By adamg on Wed, 10/15/2014 - 7:38am
Ed. note: I originally had a photo of a man being placed in a cruiser. That guy had dreadlocks, but Hutchinson had a short haircut in court the next morning. I've taken down the photo - there was another arrest around the same time for an unrelated incident near the Common and the photo might have shown that guy.
UPDATE: At his arraignment today, Hutchinson was ordered held in lieu of $1 million on charges of assault and battery on a public employee, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and armed assault with intent to murder, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Even should he make bail, he would remain behind bars on warrants sought by probation officers for violating the terms of suspended sentences he received after committed time on prior convictions.
Ed Coppinger photographed Bodio Hutchinson as he was being frisked late yesterday afternoon near Frog Pond after his arrest for allegedly stabbing two park rangers at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Boston Common.
WCVB reports both rangers are expected to survive, although one remains in critical condition.
Hutchinson, 34, could be arraigned today in Boston Municipal Court.
Innocent, etc.
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This guy is a dangerous
This guy is a dangerous career criminal. Aside from stabbing an officer in the leg during a previous incident. He also broke down his roommates door and bit off his ear in an attempt to assault the guys girlfriend.
It's just the type of person you'd love to know is hanging around the common while you run around with your kids on a nice weekend day.
Can we just lock this guy up and throw away the key already.
So it's not the fault of the
So it's not the fault of the mental health system, the closure of the bridge to Long Island or drug laws and actually the responsibility of the individual that committed the crime? What a surprise.
Ok, but to be fair, I haven't
I haven't read a single report saying that he is mentally ill. Not everyone who is homeless is mentally ill and there are some people who are actually just bad people.
If he's not sane
Then he isn't responsible.
The courts will have to sort that out.
Of course "if he's not sane, and he has a history of violence, why was he on the street" is a completely other topic.
I have no interest in the guy being punished
I have no interest in seeing him punished -- I just want him in a secure cage. Whether his particular form of misbehavior has a DSM code or not, while of some legal significance in determining whether that cage is at a prison or at a psychiatric hospital, is pretty much irrelevant to my safety on the street.
He's not insane. He's just an
He's not insane. He's just an asshole. His competency was evaluated before and it wasn't an issue. I've seen mentally ill and I've seen just complete assholes. Bodio isn't crazy, he knows what he's doing.
Attempted murder charge !
Attempted murder charge ! 40 to 60 years in prison.
Insane vs. insane
IANAL, but I do know that "insane" for the purposes of a legal insanity defense has a much narrower and specific definition than the whole realm of mental illness. It is perfectly possible to be "sane" in the legal sense (meaning that you understood the nature, quality or wrongfulness/illegality of what you were doing), and still be mentally ill.
Ever hear of personality disorders
Malignant narcissist, sociopathic, psychopathic,etc.? People with these 'disorders' are not insane or mentally ill from any discernible pathological (physical) reason. They aren't mentally ill like a schizophrenic, who has an actual physical pathological abnormality of the brain, and when experiencing a psychotic break, really are 'insane' and can't distinguish reality from the shitstorm going on in their brain. People like sociopaths are just classic 'bad' people. They generally are aware of societal norms, taboos, right and wrong, laws, they just flaunt them if it suits them.
Psychopathy
I am not a doctor and I don't pay a lot of attention to mental disorders, but psychopathy has been identified has having a physical origin for a while.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3937069/
Meh
Science is definitely still out on this subject,boss.
I think you mean "flout"
I think you mean "flout" rather than "flaunt", but who knows?
Are you a mental health professional? If so, can you cite a reference that points to "mental illness" as being exclusively biological in origin (and identifiable as such)?
Not that it matters, unless your whole purpose is to play humpty-dumpty games. "Insane" for the purposes of a criminal conviction is only a subset of what a reasonable person would call "insane". Do you dispute this?
Yes
I meant 'flout'....android keyboards ya know.
No one knows his mental
No one knows his mental health history yet, my question is, What is he doing walking around in the public garden armed with a knife half the size of a machete, according to eyewitnesses.Should Boston put metal detectors in the public garden entryways!! Will the authorities find that the suspect was involved in other Unsolved stabbings in Dorchester or Roxbury or Boston. This guy is a loose cannon, to stab 2 individuals because he refused to put out his ciggerette is beyond insane.
One could argue that it is always the responsibility of the
individual committing the crime. However, some individuals may be mentally ill and/or addicted to drugs and/or be homeless. And when you factor in those facts, that flippantly thrown around word "responsibility" sometimes coupled with the word "personal" becomes less of a factor - don't ya think?
a mentally ill person and a
a mentally ill person and a non mentally ill person who commit horrific acts are both dangerous to society. no matter the case, they need to stay out of society. whether they go to jail or insane asylum forever I don't care. just get them out of town...
It could be the phrasing used
It could be the phrasing used but people who are quick to jump on stories with "this wouldn't have happened if we had a better mental health system/less draconian drug laws/etc" aren't entirely wrong to feel that way but they appear to vindicate the actual action of the individual who committed the crime. It mitigates the suffering of the victim to an intangible societal problem and no one can be sure the crime wouldn't have happened if the individual had medical assistance/legal narcotics/etc. It's empty and insincere to say such things.
Blaming the victim? Nah.
While I think it's fatuous to say that a given crime wouldn't have happened in circumstances ABCD (without knowing a great deal about the particular case), I don't think it's blaming the victim to suggest that a crime might have been prevented in some way -- particularly in a case like this, where the proposed preventative action would have been done by someone other than the victims.
It's not blaming the victim,
It's not blaming the victim, no, but it's not blaming the perp
So you're
Blaming the knife? Good logic!
Seems to work for the anti
Seems to work for the anti-gun crowd.
'Knife violence' will show up sooner than later cuz its easier to blame objects than accept people suck.
Does it matter....
... ultimately whether a perpetrator of dangerous deeds is morally blameable or not? The dangerousness should be the key issue -- and society should be protected, regardless of blameability. Perhaps moral blame might figure into the nature of confinement in some ways...
Real issues -- as opposed to blame.
!. Did the individual do a dangerous action?
2. How likely is the individual to do future dangerous actions?
3. What is the safest -- and most humane -- way to prevent the individual from inflicting further public harm?
As someone who had and has very close family members
still suffering from mental illness, I have to respectfully disagree with your analysis.
I would never, ever vindicate the actions of the any individual performing a criminal act but and this is a big but, if the said person doing the criminal act is suffering from mental illness, it certainly does play a role in understanding how the act happened.
For example, it appears in this case, that the man suffers (and has a history) from paranoid schizophrenia:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/10/15/hutchinson/tW4OcYzpypiartnLK...
The suffering of the victim while wholly horrific does not mitigate the fact that the person committing the act is mentally ill and that reality should factor into any equation.
The problem is very much societal, is surely not intangible and is highly visible - if one chooses not to ignore it.
The guy is clearly an animal
The guy is clearly an animal and needs to be caged for good. According to his record, it sounds like he's already been given his 2nd and 3rd chances to live in normal society.
More details from the DA's office
I think one could argue that
I think one could argue that stabbing two innocent people unprovoked is a pretty good definition of "insanity". It's not like most of us are looking to stab innocent people but out of the sheer will we derive from our goodness manage to not do it.
The dude needs to never be in public again, I suspect that problem is now solved.
But don't pretend this was more predictable than it was. *Really* boring book about an interesting topic: Nicholas Taleb's "The Black Swan" - this was black swan.
There are bad people everywhere
"I think one could argue that stabbing two innocent people unprovoked is a pretty good definition of "insanity". "
No I wouldn't agree with that. he stabbed them because they were interfering with his day. They ordered him to put out the cigarette and provide ID. He did not want to do that.
I can't believe the tangent this thread took.
This is a career criminal. He needs to be locked up. Until a DOCTOR says he's mentally ill and didn't know what he was doing, we can be happy with him in Walpole with the other violent criminals who would stab or shoot you for very little reason as well.
Man, some of you live in a freakin bubble.
Carty, are you a mental
Carty, are you a mental health professional? I thought not. You are not qualified to evaluate an individual. Stop the fortune telling. Please. Have some respect for the victims.