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LiberalArkie

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Wed Sep 21, 2022, 12:47 PM Sep 2022

Critical training helps LRPD officer convince man threatening suicide in restaurant to keep living



LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – In the middle of rush hour, Little Rock police officers rushed to a man threatening to kill himself in a downtown restaurant.

Officer James Burnett was right around the corner on that July afternoon and was first to arrive on scene.

“Got the scissors up to his throat, he was pressing them,” Burnett said.

Burnett said he drew his stun gun because the man, who we are not identifying, had the scissors. The officer said he realized that made things worse.

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https://www.kark.com/news/working4you/critical-training-helps-lrpd-officer-convince-man-threatening-suicide-in-restaurant-to-keep-living/
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Critical training helps LRPD officer convince man threatening suicide in restaurant to keep living (Original Post) LiberalArkie Sep 2022 OP
"After the man finished eating, he was taken to the hospital." OldBaldy1701E Sep 2022 #1
It would depend on what the shrinks at the hospital thought the outcome might be. LiberalArkie Sep 2022 #2

OldBaldy1701E

(4,973 posts)
1. "After the man finished eating, he was taken to the hospital."
Wed Sep 21, 2022, 05:33 PM
Sep 2022

And that was it, eh? Yeah. He was dragged to a jail cell after that visit. Just what a suicidal person needs... a trip to the jail after a suicide attempt. It doesn't say that, you say? No, the article doesn't. Why don't we go find out if I am right or wrong. I have no problem being wrong on this. I would love it, in fact.

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