Call to Suicide Hotline ends in Arrest, Vandalism, page 1

A depressed Army reservist who made a phone call for help says dozens of police responded by surrounding his home and arresting him, vandalizing and searching his place without a warrant, seizing his dog and killing his tropical fish.

Corrigan says, he denied officers permission to enter his house, but they entered and trashed it anyway, saying, "I don't have time to play this constitutional bulls**t!"

What set the police off into this assault during the phone call the man mentioned being a veteran. The suicide support person on the other end asked "are there firearms in the house?" the veteran said yes. No mention of being suicidal or making threats. Just a simple "yes."

Now we could assume that the police were rushed in to keep the guy from shooting himself. Even without explicit threats or claims of being suicidal that act might be excusable.

Except for the fact that they barged in on him quite a while after the call.

The abuse gets worse:

Corrigan says he spent three days in the VA hospital, because "having weapons pointed at him upon leaving his apartment triggered his PTSD hyper-vigilance and caused irregular heartbeat."

After he was released from the hospital and determined not to be a suicide risk, Corrigan says, police arrested him and put him in jail, where he remained for almost 2 weeks.

Imagine that? Being assaulted in the middle of the night by armed forces messes up your heart rate. Who'da thunk it?

"When Corrigan returned to his apartment 16 days after being seized, he found that John Does I-XV had left the front door unlocked and unsecured, had left the electric stove on, had cut open every zipped bag, had dumped every box and drawer, had broken locked boxes from under the bed and the closet, and emptied shelves into piles in each room. All his tropical fish in his 150 gallon aquarium were dead."

Well, those heroes kept him from killing himself so it's not a total loss. Now he has something worth living for: wringing the necks of everyone involved in trashing his life.

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Next time you think calling a support line is a real option think again.

reply to post by theubermensch

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Could be. But what good does it do in the realm of national security to piss off a disgruntled vet even more?

This is America we're talking about so I doubt they've thought it through that far.

reply to post by bladdersweat

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Well that would pretty much take care of the whole world of bankers,
I am sure they have mental issues.

I'll be waiting for the hordes of bankers in jail.

It would be interesting to see the internal investigation into this.

www.militaryonesource.mil...:HOME:0::::

You'll see, along the left side of the page, a number of counseling resources.

At least once a year, most Reserve Centers go through what is commonly known as a "Family Readiness Day" - which covers everything from suicide awareness/prevention (usually death-by-power-point that induces suicidal sentiments) and there are often representatives from such resources as Military One Source, JAG, Tricare, etc to ensure they know the procedures leading up to deployment and coming off from deployment, as well as the resources and benefits open to them.

Now, there is a confidentiality issue involved in this case, to be certain. However, expressing that you desire to do harm to yourself voids that confidentiality and it becomes a liability to report a suicide attempt. Without the exact voice recording of that phone call, it will be difficult to make a determination. That's obviously going to have to wait for a court date.

The real issue, here, is the behavior of law enforcement. They entered private property without a proper warrant (any warrant for arrest they could have had would have merely involved apprehending the suspect to prevent harm to himself - which was satisfied the moment he was in cuffs and in the car). Even worse - they failed to properly secure the grounds.

The display on their part was not only ignorant, but demonstrated what could only be described as contempt. The review on their actions needs to be very thorough and quite pointed.

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