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So what I got from this is that police feel like they can search your home without consent over a facebook profile photo. Nice. He should have requested help

So what I got from this is that police feel like they can search your home without consent over a facebook profile photo. Nice. He should have requested help from the ACLU, sued the person who made the call that he needed to be forcibly taken in, and sued the police department for illegal search, while making the case VERY public. I was wrongfully committed once by a vengeful relative (not even blood) who deceitfully pretended to be my guardian, making up shit about my state of mind. The government is still hounding my mother about the medical bills, which she refuses to pay because she did not even find out what was going on until I was committed and could not be released. I was kidnapped from her house and was led to believe we were going somewhere else. Next thing I know, a police officer is at the car window telling me we can do this the easy way, or the hard way. I take this kind of intrusion on personal liberty to be especially heinous.

alsetmusic 9y ago
> He should have requested help from the ACLU, sued the person who made the call that he needed to be forcibly taken in, and sued the police department for illegal search, while making the case VERY public. While I agree with you in principle, it should also be noted that some people may not want their mental health treatment to become a matter of public record. It may affect their future in unpredictable ways (employment, relationships, legal disputes, etc). It could be used against them down the road.
- kakarot 9y ago
  That's the unfortunate truth... so he should have gone after a large settlement, citing that very reason.
stevenh 9y ago
I despise how someone who makes a false accusation always has the upper hand over the accused. People need to develop a healthy distrust of unconfirmed sources, especially in the age of Photoshop, face- and voice-swapping neural nets, and extreme trolling.
- kakarot 9y ago
  Haha you're telling me, I'm also a victim of a physical assault where the assailant told all of my friends immediately after the incident that it was I who assaulted her. Lost a lot of friends over that one and got called a future rapist by people who had never even met me. It's forever in the back of my head that some of my remaining friends still secretly believe I did it. All because I had the courtesy to not immediately tell people about what she had done. Learned my lesson there. The first to report has the upper hand :)

alsetmusic 9y ago

> He should have requested help from the ACLU, sued the person who made the call that he needed to be forcibly taken in, and sued the police department for illegal search, while making the case VERY public. While I agree with you in principle, it should also be noted that some people may not want their mental health treatment to become a matter of public record. It may affect their future in unpredictable ways (employment, relationships, legal disputes, etc). It could be used against them down the road.

kakarot 9y ago
That's the unfortunate truth... so he should have gone after a large settlement, citing that very reason.

stevenh 9y ago

I despise how someone who makes a false accusation always has the upper hand over the accused. People need to develop a healthy distrust of unconfirmed sources, especially in the age of Photoshop, face- and voice-swapping neural nets, and extreme trolling.

kakarot 9y ago
Haha you're telling me, I'm also a victim of a physical assault where the assailant told all of my friends immediately after the incident that it was I who assaulted her. Lost a lot of friends over that one and got called a future rapist by people who had never even met me. It's forever in the back of my head that some of my remaining friends still secretly believe I did it. All because I had the courtesy to not immediately tell people about what she had done. Learned my lesson there. The first to report has the upper hand :)