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Schizophrenic young man 100 pound sths. well, kyra, when somebody is mentally ill, they have this sometimes extraordinary capability to fight. they have restraint that is not normally found. what we failed to mention in the lead-in is that when the family called they said that he was armed with a screwdriver and threatening his mother. so when the officers arrived, there was a screwdriver involved and the detective who did the shooting is go oing to be running into a problem, because he gave inconsistent statements. initially, he said he fired the shot to protect himself from the young man with the screwdriver, but on the follow up, he said that he did it to the protect another officer, and those inconsistencies may trip him up. and force may have been justified if other officers say, yes an attack was going on and an officer s life was in dang e. and jeff, following up on this teenager with schizophrenia ....
And likely that he had the strength and that happened with the, that it happens with someone who is mentally ill like that, that they can be so out of control that three officers cannot restrain them? well, anybody in a rage can be out of control, and because of adrenaline have enhanced strength, but we should point out that schizophrenics are not known for violence, and the e real issue here is that you have three different police officers from three different departments, and two of the initial police departments knew that the young man had schizophrenia, and they knew how the deal with it, but it was the third officer who seems to have not known anything about this young man, and may have been somehow too fearful with this. i don t think that he handled it well at all, and this young man may have been shot for in reason, and killed for no reason at all. and jeff and holly, ahead, a video that has america talking, aed to already in tydip diapers ....
Continue to grow, but the problem of course is now that we have to look at burdens versus benefits for the unborn child. and once the child is born, will that child have all sorts of developmental or physical, mental issues? so this is really a conundrum here. people really don t know what to do, but they are hoping that the baby will be fine. all right. jeff, and holly, another case that i want to talk to you about now, and this one in north carolina, that teen shot and killed by a police officer, and his funeral to today. the family called police saying they needed help with their son who is mentally ill, but when the officers could not restrain him, a third officer walked into the door and shot him. the family says there is no justification for the killing, because he is 18 years old and weighing 100 pound, and so, holly, was force justified? you have two officers and a third one walks in and how can three officers not restrain a ....
Ventilator? i believe he can. surrogate decision makers make those kinds of decisions with their doctors every day. reporter: she was 14 weeks pregnant when she collapsed. the fetus is now almost 20 weeks. the family says the fetus still has a heartbeat but it s not clear if it can even survive. in the meantime, eric has to standby and watch his wife trapped in a position he says she never. ed to be in. i can t say enough about her. everything i do will be short of what she was. i can t do her justice. she s a great woman. joining me to discuss, holly hughes and psychologist jeff gardeer. so she never signed an official document. she just said i don t want to be kept alive like that. even. if she had signed the paperwork, the law would still override that? it absolutely would override. you re talking about an advanced ....
Psychologist, and a doctor, and what d you think of that? well, it is my experience as a psychologist and a doctor that every child does not cuss. yes, some children who do, but perhaps it is a precocious child or in this case, a child that has been coached. i am sure that it is a very intelligent child, and she is defending her child as any mother would do, but she is in denial as to what has been going on with her child and how he is being influenced by others. well, she and her son are in protective custody by the way. and holly, this was posted online be by the police in what they call thug culture and what it can do to the children. was that appropriate what they did? no, i am in total dising a e greem disagreement, because this was post ed ed by a knuckle-hea teenaged kid who was a friend of the mom s bro e theshgs and just because he posted it on facebook, does not mean that the police union needs to the imitate his bad behavior and put this child s face out there ....