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An investigation into the breakdowns with police, military and mental health care in the lead-up to what became the deadliest …
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Extremely hard to watch. Mental Health has had massive depletion of it's funds for decades. MH nurse, LCSW's, MD's have been cut even deeper after COVID, with most going to insurance and medical. In Ca, for almost 35 yrs, have noticed a drastic change in appointments (shorter) and medication declined (Prior Authorizations). insurance changed to forms the clinics don't take anymore. This will continue to get worse. Glad they (FL), showed the whole story from all sides.
I have an online friend who lives in Maine…
Mental health care in the state of Maine and the country is so bad! They say there is plenty of help, all you have to do is ask, but that is not true. My sister and brother both have major mental health issues and have not been given the help they both need. There is never any beds, all places are full. They both have stayed in the ER for several days only to be discharged out into the streets again. As a family, we are frustrated and it has torn our family apart. Mental health crisis is no joke. Everyone passes the buck. There is no help and no accountability!
My heart and prayers goes out to everyone effected by this tragedy.
Governmental figures in Maine including Judge's, Prosecutors, Police officers, etc… Do not do their jobs the way they should be done, they run their respective positions the way they personally see fit, putting personal relationships and their own horrible judgement ahead of actual procedure. In short, this state is a joke, I hate living here and am moving to Vermont with my family asap. Father of 4.
Coward
I live 2 towns away from lewiston and the 2 days after I was never so scared for my family whom live in other towns, scared that he would show up at there homes and kill them
While they have a list of who to blame – giggling blameless in the background are the pharma psychopathic mengeles that design drugs they have no clue about.
And until you stop training men to kill masses of humans you will always have humans who react this way – guaranteed.
The REALITY IS that ONLY THE MOST INSECURE MALES own guns and then as their insecurities go off the charts, they then use those guns on innocent victims. ALL GUNS IN EVERY STATE SHOULD BE BANNED. ONLY POLICE AND MILITARY NEED THEM, ON A CHECK THE GUN OUT/CHECK THE GUN BACK IN BASIS. SOOOO MANY INNOCENT ADULTS AND CHILDREN WOULD STILL BE ALIVE IF ONLY OUR UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TRULY CARED FOR ITS CITIZENS AND IMPLEMENTED THIS.
The leadership in this country decided a long time ago that we can absorb death, destruction and suffering for the sake of the 2nd Amendment. The people don't want high capacity weapons in the hands of the mentally ill, but we don't get what we want because we don't matter. Dark money matters.
Me too
Hearing all these people saying that everyone didnt do their job, and how this person dropped the ball and neglected to take steps that they should have done makes no sense to me. Everybody does the job they are given to the best of their abilities and take steps based on what information they have been given. If these guys knew what was going to happen and didnt do somthing that is one thing, but hindsight is always 20/20 and if it was so easy to predict what another person was going to do based on their behavior then we should be able to know when and who is going to do the next mass shooting. All the people pointing the finger are so smart and know all the steps that didnt happen so they should be able to tell us who to watch out for.
I think the Maine government should not only be helping soldiers they also need to clean up that city from gangs, drugs and criminals.
True crime stories show how justice is sometimes delayed but rarely denied. ⏳
No one really heard of this being everyone enjoyed were white. Sad
People here forget We are Free humans if he didn't want treatment We can't Force it on him
Ok baker act only for a few days
We did away with mental institutions where a person could put some one in
But it was abused
So The human Rights group Say s NO more
If he don't want it It Can't be forced
So laws need to change YES
And certified Dr.
Mental Hospitals need to come back
But How ? it's basically A Jail with bars .
So please before you make wild comments blaming everyone
Think hard
If we bring back those hospitals for the insane and Force them
Don't b itch about it being a jail or prison or he has no rights
Lots of GREY AREAS HERE
Ok Was he at anytime taking Illegal Drugs ?
Did the governor ever receive money from 4 winds?
I know it can happen anywhere in america but …🫣🤷 When the lady said that it hit me that people will dance around and twist themselves in knots but wont say the G word .
Just so everyone knows, Janet Mills is a radical leftist, and she appointed the people to the commission who then blamed the police and the military, but excused all the civilian agencies like the hospital. Also, the commissioner washing himself of responsibility by saying they had no authority is BS because I can guarantee you the disciplinary actions taken here were based on the findings of the commission. That is indirect authority!!!
Watching this gives me the strangest feeling! I grew up in Maine, Robert Card's grandmother taught me 8th grade math, I attended Mt. Ararat High School, I am VERY familiar with Bowdoin and everything in this video, and to make it just a little stranger, after high school I went to West Point, where Robert Card was treated. Give me a very weird feeling when I watch this.
I am also forced to ask the question, exactly how bad, how many red flags does there need to be before we are little less concerned with the rights of the "accused". This guy made his intentions pretty clear to me prior to the event. Not blaming law enforcement, their hands were tied, just saying how about we find a way to untie them in EGREGIOUS situations like this.
I am friends with one of the survivors, and live uncomfortably close to where these events took place. I remember stumbling across a Facebook post on the 26th wishing a swift recovery to this friend and immediately passing it on to my father. I won't name the survivor, but he was among the deaf friend group, as well as one of our racing buddies + well renowned in the local car community.
I wanted to do something special for him. My school bus passed his house every day, and when I saw his car sitting in the driveway, I decided that I was going to make a painting of it. After all, I was a fan of that car at the racetrack long before we even met. That car was my father's first competitor when he began racing. It just made sense.
I will never forget the moment that I handed him that picture frame upside down. He flipped it over and, like a switch, all sorts of emotions poured out. I didn't send any prayers or well wishes, but I gave him a reminder of an entire community that loves him. We hugged and proceeded to spend somewhere between 1-2 hours chatting that night. He recognized Robert Card from previous events at Schemengees'. Not only did he watch Card rip away the lives of his friends, but he too had been shot. Despite receiving this firsthand recollection of events, I could never imagine going through all of that whilst also being deaf. This man couldn't sleep, was terrified of going into public, and is forever traumatized. All due to the series of mistakes covered in this documentary. And that's just one of the many lives that have been permanently changed.
Rest in peace to the victims, and may the survivors + their families find peace.
He's a white guy in the 🪖 military in a predominant white community. This is why he got the benefit of the doubt. White privilege erased all the concpets of him being consoderd a
RED FLAG… when he was. Let him have been a person of color and not born and raised in the community… but had the same military background…he would have been labeled a terrorist automatically discharged from his military service and been in prison or a medical mental institution. This tragedy would have never happened.
Prediction is impossible, and Monday morning quarterbacking is useless. We place way too much faith in the pseudo-science of psychology. Gun law reform is probably the most effective path to prevention, imo.
I lived in Augusta when this happened. I was scared for my life when it happened.
Create enemies .
Make wars to test their weapons.
Actively program people to fear.
Deploy young soldiers to fight dirty wars .
Make profit out of those wars .
Etc..etc..etc.
Evidence of passing the buck and passing the blame! Yet another example that social workers, psychologists don’t help! Law enforcement should’ve arrested him early on and then get him help!
All because you disarmed good people.
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