Like that's ever gonna work. (Observations) · 12:43am Sep 3rd, 2016
A Nevada woman had to go out of her house and do THIS.
Sad isn't it?
Judy McKim decided to paint the notification after she says police assaulted her son, Zachary, at a time when significant scrutiny is placed on officers in the US, whom many believe are ill-equipped in de-escalation tactics when interacting with people with psychological disorders.
In bold, black letters Ms McKim pulled all the (IMO, wrong) stops to solve the problem: she painted a large, screaming warning on her home, she put up a bunch of signs describing her son as “black autistic man with a full beard”.
“I wanted to make sure that they knew everything. That he is still in diapers, doesn’t understand words, doesn’t understand what a gun is,” she told KTNV-TV13 Las Vegas. “He’s autistic, he doesn’t know what’s happening. He doesn’t know what police is.”
Look, I have autism and I'm appalled. Given the way the term ''Autistic'' is being used these days (and, if you're like me, it's used in such a horrific manner) she should've thought twice about all these measures because they're gonna be SO ineffective at preventing those proverbial bastards from getting to him. And, given the circumstances stated below, the bastards are likely to get to him quicker than she expects them . . .
“He is in a diaper, along with the pacifier, and the cops are kneeling on my son and one of them reaches for his gun because Zach was fighting for his life,” said Ms. McKim, who adopted her son when he was two days old.
[emphasis added] I wouldn't be surprised if they already DID that job, now would I?
And what's the craziest thing about it all?
I feel sorry for this man. I feel sorry that these horrifying measures were taken by her. I feel a lot of empathy for him. I think that if she thought carefully about the horrific side effect of having the word ''Autistic Man'' spray-painted over her house, she wouldn't have done it. As I've calculated, that particular side effect is kind of like the experience we Jews had with having the word ''Jude'' spray-painted over our houses in the Third Reich.
I say, if her son was in danger (and we could tell he was) she should've come up with a more reasonable solution to that. Those remarks should've been made to a cop in the HPD (Henderson Police Department) instead of to a network affiliate. It would've solved the problem, the cops wouldn't have shown up ever again and everything would be safe and sound in the McKim household. But, alas, what happened in her life happened in her life and I am left with all this to say.
How old is the man ?