
LaVieEnRose
Angelic
- Jul 23, 2022
- 4,362
It's a terrible experience. I have had it happen a few times which yes is not to my credit at all though in one instance I was completely blindsided. Police almost shot me in the latter instance and probably would have had I been of color. My hand accidentally went behind my back and let's just say that prompted a very swift reaction.Sending you strength YavannahA big reason I posted soon after the event is I really thought there must be others reading these posts who went through the same thing, and I didn't want them to feel alone. I have the same reaction now to sirens, I have to listen to them to make sure they aren't coming closer to me and feel sick the whole time. It had nothing to do with what you did or didn't do. You deserve to focus on getting through this the best you can, without blaming yourself.
They didn't need a search warrant because search warrants only apply to criminal law. In the US, and many other places, people who are suspected of committing a crime are automatically given rights and protections. But when police act under these vague "mental health statutes", none of those rights and protections exist. It's truly astonishing. I think part of the reason these statutes can exist is because almost no one knows about them. I definitely didn't until this happened to me, and I had a reason to look them up and learn about them.
Reading about these welfare checks when they were occurring was very distressing because I knew how little it was actually about the "welfare" of the people being subjected to them and how incongruent that term was in with the so little care and consideration shown in practice for minimizing the amount of trauma inflicted and the disruption to people's lives.