THE MARION COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT IS RESPONDING TO
CRITICISMS FOLLOWING THE TREATMENT OF A 28-YEAR-OLD
HOMELESS MAN.
THIS IS IN OREGON AND APPARENTLY A 28-YEAR-OLD
KEVIN STRAW WAS ARRESTED AFTER ENTERING A COMMAND POST AND
WHAT THEY CLAIM, DISTURBING RESCUE OPERATION.
THE RESCUE OPERATION HAD TO DO IT TO INDIVIDUALS WHO HAD GONE
MISSING AFTER A FISHING TRIP GOT IT WAS JOSH AND CORBIN COX BUT
28-YEAR-OLD KEVIN STRAW IS KNOWN FOR BEING A HOMELESS MAN WHO HAS
MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES.
IN FACT, HE IS KNOWN FOR GOING AROUND TOWN YELLING ABOUT
COUGARS AND HOW YOU NEED TO WATCH OUT FOR THE COUGARS
AND HOW YOU NEED TO WATCH OUT FOR SPECIAL, MILITARY
SPECIAL FORCES.
HERE IS HOW AUTHORITIES RESPONDED TO HIM AFTER HE
APPARENTLY WAS WARNING THEM ABOUT COUGARS.
HERE'S THE PROBLEM, YOU ARE UNDER ARREST.
DO NOT DO ANYTHING.
PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK.
NO!
PLEASE STOP!
HEY!
I AM NOT RESISTING!
STOP!
HELP!
STOP!
I'M DISABLED.
IT HURTS!
I'M NOT TOUCHING IT!
RESPONDING TO A PERSON WITH A MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE THAT WAY
IS NOT RIGHT, I'M BEING GENEROUS AND DESCRIBING IT THAT WAY.
LET'S REVERSE THE SITUATION, LET'S SAY THE COPS ARE
BEING LOUD WHICH HAPPENS ALL THE TIME AND A CITIZEN CAME UP
AND DECIDED TO JUST START PUNCHING THE COP IN THE FACE,
PINNED HIM DOWN, PUT HIS KNEE ON THERE, Punching HIM IN THE FACE
AND THEY ASK ARE YOU INSANE, WHAT HE DOING TO THE COP?
HE WAS BEING LOUD.
HOW MUCH PRISON TIME DOES I GET?
FIVE YEARS?
10 YEARS?
THAT IS PRETTY SERIOUS ASSAULT, IF YOU DID IT TO A COPY
WOULD BE IN A WORLD OF TROUBLE.
COP DOES IT TO YOU, TRANSIENT, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
IT MEANS YOU ARE HANGING OUT IN PUBLIC AND YOU ARE ALLOWED.
I KNOW IN FLORIDA THEY KILLED A GUY FOR PLAYING MUSIC LOUD IN
HIS OWN HOME.
ARE WE OKAY WITH THIS?
I AM ASKING YOU GUYS?
SOME PORTION OF THE COUNTRY IS.
I KNOW PROGRESSIVES ARE ALMOST COMPLETELY NOT OKAY WITH IT.
I WOULD IMAGINE MOST INDEPENDENTS ARE NOT THE
RIGHT WING, ARE YOU OKAY WITH THAT?
YOU LOOK AT THAT AND GO HEY, THAT PERSON WHOM I HAVE
MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES.
HAS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES.
HE SHOULDN'T HAVE HAD THEM.
HE SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN LOUD.
ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE
OF FUNDING MENTAL HEALTH CARE WHEN THERE IS A MASS
SHOOTING, WHERE ARE ALL OF THE PEOPLE TODAY?
NOWHERE TO BE FOUND.
THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES OR PEOPLE WHO ARE
SUFFERING FROM THEM AND DON'T HAVE THE RESOURCES TO GET HELP.
THEY LOVE USING THAT AS AN EXCUSE OR SCAPEGOAT SO THEY
NEVER HAVE TO TALK ABOUT GUN CONTROL BUT IN THIS CASE,
THEY ARE NOWHERE TO BE FOUND, THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT
MENTAL HEALTH CARE AT ALL.
THEY ARE TOTALLY OKAY WITH POLICE REALIZING A HOMELESS
MAN WHO IS A CLEAR MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE.
I MIGHT BE THE HE WAS NOT PUTTING HIS HANDS BY DESIGN
BECAUSE OF THAT.
BUT HE WAS.
FOR A LITTLE WHILE HE DOESN'T.
YOU KNOW WHY?
YOU ARE PUNCHING HIM IN THE FACE.
WHAT IS A NATURAL HUMAN REACTION WHEN SOMEONE IS PUNCHING
YOU IN THE FACE?
COVER YOUR FACE.
AS HE IS PUNCHING YOU IN THE FACE, IS THERE ANY HUMAN
WHO REACTS BY NOT DOING THIS FOR DOING THIS, YOU ARE
PUNCHING ME IN THE FACE?
GREAT.
I KNOW THE RIGHT WING, WE ARE AUTHORITARIAN, YOU MUST
FOLLOW THE COMMANDS OF THE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS.
ONES WHO WANT SMALL GOVERNMENT MAKE THE
ARGUMENT THAT THEY NEED TO ARM THEMSELVES WITH ULCERS OF
MILITARY GRADE WEAPONRY BECAUSE THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE TO
FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE RADICAL GOVERNMENT.
THAT IS ALL BS.
THEY LOVE BIG GOVERNMENT.
THEY LOVE AUTHORITARIAN RESUME.
THEY LOVE THE POLICE DAY AND THEY HAVE BEEN SUPPORTING
AND PUSHING FOR, FOR DECADES NOW AND THIS IS THE RESULT OF IT.
INTO THEY ACTUALLY WANT THE COPS TO BE SAFE?
THEY ARE ACTUALLY IN FAVOR OF LEGISLATION THAT WOULD HAVE
ARMOR PIERCING BULLETS.
THAT WOULD LEGALIZE IT.
THEY DO NOT MIND IF YOU ACTUALLY SHOOT COPS BECAUSE THE COPS
ARE THE ONLY ONES WEARING ARMOR, RIGHT?
IF YOU SHOOT THE COPS TO KILL TO GET PAST THEIR ARMOR, THAT
IS OKAY.
BUT IF THEY ARE BRUTALIZING A GUY WITH MENTAL HEALTH
ISSUES, THAT IS FINE, THAT IS THE SITUATION WHERE YOU SAY
COPS ARE AWESOME, WONDERFUL COPS BUT IF THEY ARE INFRINGING
ON MY RIGHT TO WHAT I PERCEIVE TO BE RIGHTS, KILL THEM.
THAT MAKES NO SENSE.
HOW ABOUT WE HAVE COPS WHO PROTECT AND SERVE THE
CITIZENS THAT PAY THEM AND THEN WE PROTECT THE COPS.
WE DON'T ALLOW FOR SILENCERS OR ARMOR PIERCING BULLETS AND
THEN WE HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WHERE WE PAY THEM TO PROTECT
US AND THEN WE APPRECIATE THAT AND THEN IT WORKS.
KIND OF HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO IN A DEMOCRACY.
BUT INSTEAD, WE HAVE THIS.
INCREDIBLY DYSFUNCTIONAL OPEN SYSTEM AND A HUGE PERCENTAGE OF
THE COUNTRY APPLAUDS.