Badly Berned, Hillary Clinton Attempts To Go On Offense - Michelle: On NYPD's response to nonviolent psychotic episode

Badly Berned, Hillary Clinton Attempts To Go On Offense




SO, NOW THAT BERNIE SANDERS HAS
CAUGHT CLINTON IN IOWA,
PANIC HAS SET IN AT CLINTON
HEADQUARTERS.
IF THEY ARE NOT PANICKING,
THEY SHOULD BE.
HUFFINGTON POST REPORTS ñ
HAVING BEEN SINGED THEY ARE ON
THE COUNTER ATTACK.
THIS REMINDS ME OF THE
COUNTERATTACK AGAINST
BARACK OBAMA.
I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO BE
VERY EFFECTIVE FOR THE REASONS
I'M GOING TO OUTLINE HERE.
THIS IS THE STRATEGY THAT
EVERYBODY DOES, FIRST THEY
IGNORE YOU, THEN THE MAINSTREAM
MEDIA IGNORED BERNIE
SANDERS FOR ALL OF THIS TIME.
THEN THEY ATTACK YOU, AND YOU
KNOW THE REST AND EVENTUALLY
WIN.
LET'S GET INTO THE SPECIFICS.
THE FIRST LINE OF ATTACK
IS PREPOSTEROUS.
THAT IS THE
WORST ARGUMENT I
EVER HEARD. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
THAT BERNIE SANDERS IS
SOFT ON WALL STREET.
LINES OF ATTACK ARE GOING TO
HAVE SOME VALIDITY.
EVEN ON EDUCATION
IT'S A GOOD POINT TO MAKE.
YOU START BY ATTACKING HIM BY
BEING SOFT ON WALL STREET?
HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO BREAK
THEIR SPINES AND DRINK THEIR
SPINAL FLUID.
HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO BREAK UP
THE SIX BIGGEST BANKS, HOW MUCH
TOUGHER CAN YOU BE
ON THE BIG BANKS?
UNDER BERNIE SANDERS THEY
WON'T EVEN EXIST.
THAT IS SOFT ON WALL STREET?
THAT IS THE MOST RIDICULOUS
THING I HAVE EVER HEARD.
THAT HE WENT ON TO LIST ALL
THESE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT
HE WOULD DO.
STEAGALL ALLOWS THE BIG BANKS TO
BED DEPOSITORS MONEY AND
MAKE MONEY OFF OF IT.
IF THEY LOSE IT, OOPS.
THAT IS WHERE
GLASS-STEAGALL DOES.
BERNIE SANDERS SAYS HE WOULD
NOT ALLOW THEM TO DO THAT.
HE SAID HE WILL CAP CREDIT CARDS
AT A 15 PERCENT INTEREST RATE.
THAT IS SOFT ON WALL STREET? THE
CLINTON CAMPAIGN NEVER LEARNS.
MAYBE THAT IS WHY THEY GOT
THEIR ASS KICKED IN 2008
WHEN THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO WIN.
THEY ARE ACTUALLY NOT
VERY GOOD AT THIS.
YEAH, THAT IS POLITICS AS
USUAL, BUT IT IS NOT WORKING.
THERE IS A THING CALLED THE
INTERNET, IT IS MADE UP OF
A SERIES OF TUBES.
IF YOU LOOK INTO IT, IT
DELIVERS DATA TO THE PEOPLE.
LET'S TURN TO THINGS WHERE SHE
MIGHT HAVE A GOOD POINT.
THESE POINTS ARE BETTER.
FIRST OF ALL, I THINK HILLARY
CLINTON IS FLAT-OUT BETTER
ON GUN POLICY THEN BERNIE
SANDERS HAS BEEN.
BERNIE SANDERS DID VOTE TO GIVE
GUN MANUFACTURERS IMMUNITY.
I THINK THAT IS A WRONG VOTE.
HE STANDS BY THAT VOTE.
HE SAYS HE IS WITH PRESIDENT
OBAMA AND HE AGREES WITH ALL THE
EXECUTIVE ORDERS THAT HE WOULD
TAKE TO BRING MORE GUN CONTROL.
GUN CONTROL GROUPS HAVE RECENTLY
GIVEN BERNIE SANDERS 100
PERCENT RATING ON THAT ISSUE,
BUT THE BRADY GROUP
ENDORSED HILLARY CLINTON BECAUSE
SHE IS BETTER ON
THE ISSUE.
IF YOU WANT TO DO THAT,
THAT MAKES SENSE.
IT IS ONLY HALF CORRECT BECAUSE
CORPORATE INTERESTS THINK THAT
THEY WOULD PREFER REPUBLICANS
AND WILL GIVE THEM MORE GOODIES.
BUT OVERALL CORPORATE INTERESTS
HAVE BEEN VERY KIND TO THE
CLINTONS.
THEY HAVE GIVEN THEM HUNDREDS
OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN
CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS, AND ALSO
PERSONAL MONEY THEY TAKE
HOME IN THE FORM OF SPEECHES.
CORPORATE INTERESTS HAVE BEEN
WONDERFUL TO YOU THROUGHOUT
YOUR CAREER.
MICHAEL BRIGGS, THE CAMPAIGN
SPOKESMAN FOR BERNIE
SANDERS RESPONDS.
IF OVERALL THE CLINTONS LINE OF
ATTACK IS I AM MORE LIBERAL
THAN BERNIE SANDERS, I'M GOING
TO WISH YOU A LOT OF LUCK
BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT
GOING TO WIN.
THAT PUTS HER IN A TOUGH SPOT.
THEN SHE TURNS AROUND AND
SAYS HE IS TOO LIBERAL.
SINGLE-PARENT MEDICARE, IT IS
CRAZY TALK FROM BERNIE SANDERS.
NOW, BERNIE SANDERS CAMPAIGN
FOUND AN OLD TWEET FROM
JOHN PODESTA WHO IS NOW RUNNING
HILLARY CLINTON'S CAMPAIGN.
I BELIEVE THAT IS CALLED A BERN.
CLINTON STRIKES BACK
AGAINST BERNIE SANDERS ON
THIS ISSUE.
THIS IS THE WORST LINE OF
ATTACK, IT IS WORSE THAN
WALL STREET.
IT IS BASICALLY SAYING THAT IN
THE REAL WORLD YOU CANNOT
BE LIBERAL. GOOD LUCK WITH THAT.
YOU ARE GOING TO GET YOUR ASS
KICKED IF YOU GO DOWN THAT ROAD.
NOW, ONE MORE ISSUE HERE.
SHE IS RIGHT AND SHE HAS BEEN
VERY SPECIFIC IN HER TAX
PLAN, AND BERNIE SANDERS HAS
NOT. THAT IS A FAIR LINE OF
ATTACK.
THE ONES THAT MAKE SENSE SHE
SHOULD GO FOR IT, LIKE THE GUNS.
OVERALL IF YOU THINK BERNIE
SANDERS IS NOT GOING TO
RAISE TAXES ON THE RICH MORE
THAN HILLARY CLINTON YOU
HAVE TO BE SMOKING
THE GOOD STUFF.
YES, HE SHOULD BE FORCED TO
RELEASE HIS TAX PLAN, BUT
MY GUESS IS IT IS GOING TO BE
MUCH MORE LIBERAL THAN
HILLARY CLINTON'S.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR.
I LIED THERE IS ONE MORE
POLICY, FOREIGN POLICY.
CLINTON HAD A SNIDE
COMMENT ABOUT THAT.
AS YOU LOOK AT ALL OF THESE
LINES OF ATTACK THAT THE CLINTON
CAMPAIGN HAS NOW UNLEASHED I
RATE THEM FAIRLY INEFFECTIVE.
SOME OF THIS WILL BE
COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.
WHEN YOU START TALKING ABOUT HOW
YOU WERE TOUGHER ON WALL
STREET THAN BERNIE SANDERS, YOU
ARE GOING TO GET LAUGHED
OUT OF THE ROOM.
WHEN YOU SAY I DON'T HAVE A
MAGIC WAND, THAT IS A
WOEFUL STRATEGY.
NOT ONLY HAS HE CAUGHT HER, HE
HAS SENT HER INTO A TAILSPIN.
THIS DOES NOT LOOK GOOD FOR
THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN.
THEY TELL ME SHE IS INEVITABLE,
BUT I BELIEVE I HAVE
SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE.
I SAW IT IN 2008,
IT HAS A GOOD ENDING, BUT
NOT FOR THE CLINTONS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uri1ZraZZno


Michelle: On NYPD's response to nonviolent psychotic episode




Hi, my name's Michelle and I'm a social worker,
a licensed Masters social worker, graduated
from Columbia University. My family has mental
illness on both sides; my mother was a paranoid
schizophrenic and also suffered from alcoholism,
my grandmother on my dad's side also suffered
from mental illness. I myself suffer from
clinical depression. When I'm in a psychotic
moment it's called andquot;major depression with
psychotic features,andquot; and I had a crisis in
2011 on January 25th after not having taken
my medication for some time. I had a panic
attack and believed that my son had been wounded
and needed to get to the hospital, so I went
to the hospital in a cab, panicked that something
had happened to him. I was asked to leave
my cab but I told my cab driver that I was
waiting for someone to pay the cab fare for me
'cause I believed that someone was coming
to pay the cab fare-- didn't happen. The cab
driver called the police, the police responded.
We were standing in front of a hospital;
It was obvious that I was, for lack of better
words, delusional, and their response was
to arrest me, as opposed to--without reading
me my rights--rather than taking me in to
the emergency room to seek treatment; they
decided to take me to the precinct. They shackled
my hands...they put handcuffs on my hands,
and leg shackles on my feet, dragged me from
the police car into the precinct, they did
a search-and-frisk--what is it?--and frisked
me in front of the sergeant who was in front
of several men. Then they put me in a holding cell
kept me there for a couple of hours.
When I refused to have myself fingerprinted
and told them that they would have to do a
background check--again, a delusional moment,
because post-9/11 everybody has to go into
the computer once you're arrested, this is
my understanding now--and they decided that
they were going to take me to East Elmhurst
Hospital, as opposed to the hospital that
was just around the corner that they just
arrested me in front of. Why? Because I worked
at that hospital, so I guess they presumed
that the hospital would be biased in my favor... As opposed to taking me to the hospital,
they took me to the hospital that they felt
would give them, I believe--I'm speculating--a favorable or an unbiased report. This was
one of the most humiliating experiences of
my life. One, because I have always worked
well with police officers, I've always respected
their profession, my father himself was a
former police officer in his country, which
is kind of ironic...I just really think it's
sad that I was held in shackles for 36 hours
without any thought of how my mental illness
had impacted this whole situation. The fact
that, I speculate, in the NYPD's computers,
every time my name was in the computer for
responding to an incident where I was ill,
there were two suicide attempts where they
had come to my home, that they believed that
I was what they call andquot;730,andquot; which is the code
for a mentally ill person or an emotionally
disturbed person, they came there because
they wanted to assist me; in this situation,
they wanted to penalize me for being ill.
I think that the officers that I initially
encountered were more professional and had
some type of dealing with the situation in
the past, at least they were more sensitive,
or at least I was not in a state where I could
not function. I think that the combination
is dangerous not only for the mentally/emotionally
disturbed person, but for the police officers
also. I think that they need to have some
type of clinical training...there needs to
be a mobile crisis team where they, if necessary,
have to arrest, but that treatment should
be the emerging issue.
A suicide is no different than a psychotic incident in that an emerging
issue is something that puts life and limb
in danger. If a police officer were to respond,
it shouldn't be with a gun, 'cause a psychotic
person can't kill you unless they're armed.
The psychosis is killing them; it's a chemical
imbalance. And I think that the indignity
is that there are youth officers who respond
to youth and do youth interventions, you have
domestic violence officers who respond to
domestic violence incidents, and those incidents
have gone down because of their training and
because of their specialization, so if we
were to have mental health police officers
responding to mental health or what they call
andquot;730andquot;s or emotionally disturbed persons' episodes,
I think that there would be a greater response
in favor of the mentally ill person and there
would be a decrease in the violence that affects
not only the police officers, but the person
who's ill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZQ61VXnx2U