This knowledge was forefront in my mind when I saw a man in his twenties muttering to himself, handcuffed and surrounded by 4 white male police officers on El Camino, in Northern California. As a physician, I have a duty (shit, I swore an actual oath) to preserve the health of all humans. There was no way I was going to drive past this situation without making sure that guy was going to be fine.
To the 4 white male policemen who beat me for checking the health of a sick black man in their…
Ali Afshar
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I don’t understand the urgency to intervene in this situation. If schizophrenia was your primary concern, then that hardly qualifies as life threatening making the need to render immediate aid non existent. Not to mention the fact that police are trained to deal with people with mental illness, so the threat to the person, from a medical standpoint, was miniscule.
It sounds like hubris got the better of you this time.