PieFedTIL About Christian Hall, an American of Chinese ethnicity, was shot dead by cops responding to a call about a suicidal person.
ćé»å®¶é§ Wong Ka Kuić(he/him)en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Christian_Hall
Wow, great job, you save him from suicideā¦ by killing himā¦ š¤¦āāļø
Hall was born Chen Zhi Bo (Chinese: éåæę³¢) on October 31, 2001, in Shanghai, China. Shortly after his first birthday, he was adopted by Gareth J. Hall and Fe Hall, who are of African and Latino and Filipino descent respectively. He had his name officially changed to Christian Joseph Hall. As a child, he was diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder and later depression.
On December 30, 2020, Hall was dropped off at his workplace at a convenience store by his mother. He walked to an overpass of Pennsylvania Route 33 above Interstate 80 near mile marker 302A, and at 1:30 p.m., Hall called emergency services to report a āsuiciderā, resulting in the arrival of police. Footage of the scene showed him pacing around and clutching what appears to be a gun. Initial reports said Hall placed it on the ground after being ordered to do so, and began negotiating with the officers, but soon picked it up again. Around 1:38 p.m., Hall was shot seven times by the troopers.
He was taken to the Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono in East Stroudsburg, where he later died from his injuries.
Initial reports from authorities stated that when the officers told Hall to put the gun on the ground, he complied, but at one point during negotiations, he picked up the gun and pointed it in the direction of the police, causing them to shoot him. A video of the incident with evidence contradicting the claims surfaced in February 2021. The video shows Hall raising his hands before he is shot and falls.
According to his family, Hall reported that he had been experiencing a mental health problem. Fe Hall told WNEP-TV, āHe needed help. He was looking for help, but instead of getting help, he was killed in cold blood by those who were supposed to help him.ā Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump also stated that Hall was in need of help and seemed to be contemplating suicide.
Also, I think my mom wouldāve read this story and be like: āIs this what you want your future to be?ā
Likeā¦ the fuck? You think I chose depression? Jesus christā¦
Also: I wanna comment on the adoption thingā¦
Dude mustāve have an identity crisis lolā¦ I mean I as an ethnic Chinese still have my Bio-parents and I already sort of have an identity crisis for being so young when I arrived in the USā¦
Him having different ethnicity parents must be extremely confusing coupled with the adoption thing, and being in a white majority country and facing perpetual foreigner stereotype and racism while simultaneously having zero connections to your ancestral cultureā¦
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This happens more than one would like to admit. Cops are not your friend and not trained to deal with the public in any sensible way.
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Yep, the best cops in Australia are the ones whoāve been on the job for 30+ years in a country town. āMate, saw you doing 140Km/h on the way to the tip, try and slow it down a bitā.
This isnāt just the US as well. This literally happened in my neighbourhood in Switzerland.
Old reclusive cow farmer guy has suicidal crisis. Calls the hotline saying heās thinking of shooting himself. They call the cops. Cops burst in, see the gun, shoot him to death.
Which is why they need to be defunded, and that funding needs to go to other public safety services.
Future generation are going to read about the United Srates in disbelief and not be able to comprehend how things could be so bad without an open revolt from the public.
People in other countries already do
Build a country with slaves, and do literally everything possible to keep them in whatever ācapitalistā form possible.
What? They were just helping! He wanted to die, now heās dead. They did it!!! Yay!!!
/s with the HEAVIEST of sarcasm intended.
I bet cops respond to mental health calls as if theyāre visiting a shooting range with realistic moving targets, probably donāt even see them as humans.
Yep cops love to kills people in mental health crises.
every single time you call the police, no matter what youāre calling them for, weigh the fact that there is a very serious chance that anyone involved could be seriously hurt, murdered, or in jail for the next 20-30 years unless youāre willing to pay thousands of dollars. that blood will end up on the pigs AND your hands. itās literally never worth it. ACAB
Yes, especially if you point a gun at the cops
one day, I looked out my window, and I see this dude. white guy with tattoos but no shirt and only one shoe. walking down the center of the street.
i live in a corner of a notorious neighborhood. my corner is the good side by all accounts. the other side is nicknamed āfelony flatsā and probably other negatives. the city I live in has a few bad neighborhoods and this is generally considered one of the few that you might get shot in.
so I see this guy and I know he needs help, and I want to call 911 but Iām conflicted because half of my internal dialogue is that the cops are going to kill him
i didnāt call. because even though heās clearly a danger to himself, he wasnāt threatening anyone else
I think of that dude a lot
yeah that tattoo thing was gonna get him killed, cops love to stereotype
Reminds me of an old article. I forgot the details, but it was about a suicidal man who failed his attempt and was arrested in a country where suicide was illegal and punishable by death.
No idea what happened to him or if it was even true, but this reminds me of that.
The title is very confusing.
This is what I get for having a brain that thinks in two languagesā¦
(Any suggestions then?)
It sounds like the suicidal person and the guy are not the same. Or that the guy responded, not the cops.
Judge Dredd was prophecy