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Charges against the naked Harvard student could be dropped if he has mental-health issues, police say
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Sounds reasonable
Now let's extend this to everyone accused of crimes like this.
This includes UH: no more comments smearfest when someone is accused of a crime,.
So long as there's no other victim
Someone victimized by someone with mental health problems is still a victim. Their losses are no less irrespective of the reason the crime occurred.
Thankfully no one else was hurt in this case.
Mental Health Courts
Massachusetts has a few different mental health court sessions that are meant to help people avoid incarceration when they have a mental health condition. They are court ordered to treatment instead. Cambridge, Boston, and Quincy all have them. They are very imperfect, but do help a lot of people avoid unnecessary jail time.
Explain
What is criminal about being naked?
What is criminal about resisting being forcibly attacked and tortured into compliance?
Or if....
it threatens the parents' alumni contributions this year.
Harvard students with psychological issues ...
... get sympathy and understanding and press coverage.
Homeless people with psychological issues get jail and are ignored.
Homeless vs Harvard
If you belong to the Harvard club you will have the criminal charges dropped and you can sue the officers. If you are a homeless runaway on drugs trespassing naked in Harvard yard you will be arrested and banished from the city of Cambridge.
Naked Harvard student
If the student dashed into traffic while police tried to " contain" him and was killed.... Protests would say,"Why didn't the police act quickly?"
And, conversely...
if the officers had succeeding in de-escalating the situation, we wouldn't even be reading about it.
As long as we're playing counterfactual hypothetical, let's keep in mind that if your grandmother had had balls she would have been your grandfather.
All I can say is..
It’s 2018 and my grandma does actually have balls, alas that does not make her in fact, Grampa.
Reading the coverage of this
(And this is certainly no slam on Adam)
Why is the press, or at least the Globe and Herald, mentioning the accused? Even the Cambridge Chief of Police, who thinks his officers acted rightly (a belief I support,) has issues with this guy’s name being out there. Yes, he most likely broke several laws, but these are crimes of the idiocy of youth. These things shouldn’t follow him for the rest of his life.