Typical power tripping rent-a-cop assholes.

Someone is about to get fired.

Clarence must be PISSED.

Well, we’ve heard one side of the story … it will now be interesting to what if anything the hospital has to say within the confines of patient privacy rights.

Was the nephew unruly, combative and/or threatening … and if so, to what extent? We just don’t know at this point.

Michael T, you fucking idiot. The man has epilepsy. People with this affliction are quite often not rational when their medications get out of balance. Medications for epilepsy can and often do react with one’s insulin levels.

shootfromthehip: I never thought I would say this but I agree with all 3 of your statements. Thank you for making them and for understanding that there can be mitigating circumstances–even for relatives of conservatives.

What’s funny about this is that Thomas would have been OK with this happening to someone else’s child. Read some of the insane opinions he has written on crime and punishment issues. For the record, what was done to his nephew was wrong and people should be held accountable.

Thanks Pyrope.

I feel for Clarence here.

This sounds like an awful situation….

pyrope said:
Michael T, you fucking idiot. The man has epilepsy. People with this affliction are quite often not rational when their medications get out of balance. Medications for epilepsy can and often do react with one’s insulin levels.

In your biased attacking style you are clearly indicating (and admitting) that there is only one side to this story.

So in your closed partisan mind, just b/c this is the nephew of a Justice who shares your political views you will not even consider the possibility that this nephew attacked an orderly … or some similar egregious offense.

The other side of the story is beginning to emerge.

Mr. Thomas was possibly being hospitalized under a 72-hour-hold following a suicide attempt. He attempted to leave the hospital and this lead to the altercation with security who were attempting to prevent him from leaving and violating the mandatory hold..

If he was in fact tased, was it justified? That seems to be the key question as this story continues to unfold … also was he beaten or inappropriately mistreated in other ways?

Averreauxii, you’re an idiot. That about sums it up.

you DON’T taze an epileptic…period. $$$$$$$$$$$$, settled out of court within 3 to 6 months.

This is a sad, difficult situation, should they have just let him go so he could kill himself or do they continue to try and prevent him from doing so.

MichelleF said:
Averreauxii, you’re an idiot. That about sums it up.

Coming from the resident Utah teahadist wingnut, it’s a compliment. How about you read his fucking opinions then get back to me? The guy is a dogmatic extremist. It’s in black and white. Read his opinions!

Iris said:
This is a sad, difficult situation, should they have just let him go so he could kill himself or do they continue to try and prevent him from doing so.

You cannot protect people from themselves. It’s the little libertarian in me that has that viewpoint. Release him to his relatives or caretakers. Let’s see how well they can save him from himself. I’m very empathetic to the mentally handicapped or disturbed, not so with their relatives who dump them in institutions and expect all their needs to be met.

Averreauxii said:
Coming from the resident Utah teahadist wingnut, it’s a compliment. How about you read his fucking opinions then get back to me? The guy is a dogmatic extremist. It’s in black and white. Read his opinions!

Clarence Thomas and fellow arch conservative Justice Scalia were the only dissenters in a 7-2 Supreme Court decision where the Court held that the use of excessive physical force against a prisoner may constitute cruel and unusual punishment even though the inmate does not suffer serious injury.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_v._McMillian

Clarence Thomas is a joke. He let’s Scalia do most of the heavy lifting. He is America’s house N.