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Man thrusts American flag through another man’s head at Sonic, Oklahoma cops say (www.kansascity.com)

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Found this other article on it and it mentions:

KOKI also identified a woman who told the station that she recognized Collins after seeing him exhibit similarly disturbing behavior about a week prior to the incident at the Sonic.

“We saw him start to charge at this person who was just sitting on the ground in front of the McDonald’s,” she told the station in an interview. “He charged at him with the flagpole and started doing like a stabbing motion with it.”

I suspect this guy is mentally ill.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Mental illness may be at play, but the systematic problem is that mental healthcare is difficult and expensive - even with insurance - and that's if they even take insurance.

Without a combination of Obama care and a mother who had the means to not only try to get me help, but continued over the course of my life to try to help ..

I'm bipolar. It took a long time (27 years of age) and lots of money to get to being an otherwise fairly normal functional person.

Mental health needs to be a priority, it needs to be socialized (like all medical care) so people don't have to pick between the rent (always rising) and seeing a doctor.

Mental health also carries a stigma still, which is why I'm open about mental health and my struggles. Because when I'm on my meds, on your average day, I'm just your average civillian. Without meds I don't sleep for days, get into a manic paranoid spiral, then crash into a depression... Before I found the right meds, that depression lasted two years and getting out of bed was a major victory.

Not violent but certainly not functional. Proper screening and checkups that don't make you pick between meals and mental health would go a long way to spotting the folks with violent impulses. Get them on some meds,some talk therapy, work through it.

Not impale a stranger through the head with a makeshift spear.