Nekiwa SmithThe Death of Michael Jacobs
April 20th 2009 23:50
I am asking all of my sister's, brother's in Christ and every citizen, to please pray for our countries' leadership, including the nationwide police departments. While driving, I heard a very disappointing story released on a local gospel music station. Michael Jacobs, a mentally ill young men who lived in Ft. Worth, TX, recently died at the hands of what is suspected to be excessive police abuse/force. He lived w/his parents. He had been diagnosed as being Bipolar. Bipolar is an emotional condition, where it's patients find it difficult to control their emotions, which are often unbalanced. On this particular occasion, Michael was unruly and raging with his parents, who then called Welfare and police seeking help for her son, hoping that they would send a medic or ambulance who would then take him to a local mental facility, which in turn would hopefully provide him medication or mental help to calm his raging.
The ambulance and Ft.Worth PD both arrived. The police knew that this young man was mentally unstable, but in turn sent the medic away. After that, they proceeding to wrestle with him, no handcuffs were placed, Mind you, he was 5 foot 5 and weight 140 lbs. It's also noted that 4 to 5 police officers were present. I'm guessing that they were not able to subdue him(hmm.) They proceeding to taze him 4 or more times. After his mom shouted, 'please stop your killing my baby', one of the officers stepped forward towards her, while touching his gun, stating, 'please step back ma'm.' He laid there, not breathing. A medic was still not called until after Michael's father stated that 'I think he's not breathing'. By the time that the medic returned, he was dead. A investigation is currently being done. The Ft.Worth police has yet to send any rep to the Jacob's family to apologize or anything. Everything is seeming to be on the hush-hush.
My prayer is for this family, that the lord will heal them of their pain through their mourning. I could only imagine, witnessing the death of my young son in such as manner.
Also, my prayer is that the Ft. Worth police department and city council is made more accountable for treatment of potential detanee's and of it's citizens. My prayer is also that the officer's implicated is convicted and issue public apologies to this family. Also, that they receive counseling. Many citizens of the Black community of Ft. Worth is calling for the resignation of the police implicated. My prayer is that the will of the Father is completed. A similar situation happened in Westington, a Upper class, white community of Ft. Worth and the Ft. Worth pd handled it much different than they are handling it with Michael Jacob and his family. Racism is still in America. We have a black president, but there is still racism present, and sad to say, its in our law enforcement. I pray that this country will come to a point, bridge, where each citizen is actually treated equally.
God Bless
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