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Family: Bakersfield man arrested after standoff is mentally ill

The family of the man police said pepper-sprayed officers, then lit his house on fire says their brother is mentally ill. They say they tried to get him help for years but the system failed them.

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jmabbott888 - 9/11/2012 6:02 PM
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"She said last week Lindo stopped taking his medication" he quit taking his meds, his fault not ours, the families or the cops. He caused the problem, lock him up.

DeekThePiper - 9/11/2012 12:56 PM
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Once wide-eyed and ambitious, Creepy Neil is now wide-eyed with delirium. “Creepy” thinks we are the nut cases. Sometimes I wonder if we really are the back end of a horse. Our society deals with problems ONLY AFTER they’ve become emergencies. Bozo, here, is not a threat to society until he answers God’s call to “thin out the crowd”. Then, Lady (blind) Justice takes over and will place twitchy Neil in the mental ward.

Dragon - 9/11/2012 11:21 AM
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Nice to know it's someone elses fault.........................

mamak - 9/11/2012 6:36 AM
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Another idiot disrespecting the law and blaming everybody and everything else for his stupidity!

kozwoman5 - 9/10/2012 10:57 PM
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I agree. Even though I feel that people should be allowed to decide for themselves their own medical treatment, mentally ill people lack the judgement to make those decisions with a clear mind. I don't feel that they all need to be locked up, but we have gone too far the other way.

ginny - 9/10/2012 7:54 PM
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The laws today protect the mentally impaired instead of the way they used to be back in the 70's and before. Thanks to the ACLU mental patients cannot be hospitalized or medicated unless they ask for it themselves. That's one of the reasons we no longer have the mental hospitals we used to, etc. The family has the ACLU to thank for this one. There is no loophole the family can use now. Meanwhile, they walk among us.
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