https://x.com/uva_em/status/1894391382573551673?s=46
UVA main account just retweeted this from the emergency account. Posting since there are eyeballs here and it appears to be a developing situation. Since the main account RT’d I imagine it’s serious.
Update: shelter in place remains in effect. Searching for 6’4 black male with grey hoodie.
Reddit says hit and run, 2 people were hit. But haven’t seen anything official confirming that
Police say no injuries. Named suspect as Nyheem Hill. Google search says he was sentenced to 5 years in prison for gun charges in July. Did he escape or something??
Looks like a hit and run. Fleeing by foot in the Alderman area and that the shelter in place is because of his past gun charges as a precaution
Probably a good precaution. Suspect will be looking at serious jail time if he’s already earned a 5 year sentence. Idk why he isn’t in jail now.
Yeah, was just chatting with some folks about this. Supposedly he brought a rifle to a playground (dunno what the context was), so the moms were wondering how he was out and about. That having been said, throwing him in jail forever for that isn’t really an option and I have no idea what the timing has been.
Is the today the day I go on a rant about the US prison system vs European style rehabilitation and how lack of investments into the community breed crime and provide social commentary on the for-profit prison system?
No today is not that day, for it is a day to find new portal prospects while convincing my employer that I am still productive which they somehow believe
I did not realize that we aligned on non-basketball matters as well.
When you’re ready you can come work for the Dragon’s Lair and where we encourage that sort of conversation and rants. And have the ability to do something about it. Just saying
Restorative Justice LRA thread letssss goooo
A lot of it comes down to mental health treatment. My younger daughter was… lets go with “menaced” by a lady with mental health issues in the Shell station next to STAB not that long ago (daughter is fine, the folks who work at the Shell station were great and really stepped in to help. We brought the flowers later to say thanks).
We looked into it, and the lady’s track record is really clear. She’s a good citizen for about 5 years, then she goes off her meds and her mental health treatment stuff growing more delusional until she starts physically harassing people. The cops pick her up, she been through this cycle a few times so the DAs know her now, and she goes into the “mental health docket”. She meets with someone from the court twice a month and gets drug tested, and apparently does great acting as a mentor for other folks.
So its one of those difficult choices in life. For years at a time, she’s totally fine, holds down and job and is a productive member of society. But every few years she loses it and starts harassing people. We talked to the DA about it, and if we’d wanted to, they could have pressed regular assault charges and gotten her throw in jail. But it only would have been for a couple weeks and then she’d be out having theoretically “learned her lesson” but in practice probably being worse off. We agreed the mental health docket is the best place for her, because there isn’t really anything else we can do.
Mental health treatment in the US is something we pretend is an occasional one-off that people complain about it being expensive, when in fact its something that happens all the time every day.
Lifted.
In one of my long-ago past lives, I supervised the 7-attorney Civil Commitment Division of the Public Defender’s Office in Seattle. My view is that spending a lot more money than we currently do on both mental health resources and treatments, and also early interventions in the criminal justice system, ultimately would save society much, much greater amounts in both financial and human costs. Raising the money is the rub of course, especially in the current political environment.
To your point, though; mental health treatment - and mental health crises - definitely occur everywhere, all the time. As I’ve learned both from professional and personal experience, you barely have to scratch the surface on pretty much any family, extended or not, to find mental health issues.