Ukiah Police Department Officers Tase, Pepper-Spray, and Punch Naked, Mentally Ill Man [Warning Graphic Video May Be Difficult for Some Readers]
Video footage of Ukiah Police Department officers pepper-spraying, tasing, and hitting a naked man with closed fists has drawn community ire with many seeing the officers’ use of force as excessive.
According to reporting by Justine Fredrickson of the Ukiah Daily Journal, officers were dispatched to the 1400 block of South State Street in response to reports of a naked man walking in the road. Officers found Ukiah man Gerardo Magdaleno when UPD Lieutenant Andy Phillips said he became “aggressive and took a fighting stance.”
Frederickson’s reporting on the circumstance indicates Ukiah Police Lt. Phillips believes Magdaleno was under the influence of methamphetamine. Phillips told Frederickson it is “very common for people under the influence of meth to get very hot and take their clothes off. [Magdaleno] was taken to the hospital to make sure he wasn’t suffering from meth psychosis.”
Veronikita Diaz, Gerardo Magdaleno’s sister, told us a nurse informed their family that her brother experienced facial fractures and a concussion as a result of the incident.
Screenshot of a video by Tonya Clark of Gerardo Magdaleno being restrained by Ukiah Police Officers.
The first video of the interaction between Magdaleno and a UPD officer begins with the civilian falling onto his back possibly due to being shocked by a taser. Magdaleno stands back up, seemingly dazed and argumentative when the officer apparently begins pepper-spraying him while yelling, “Get on the ground!”
The second video begins with Magdaleno surrounded by three UPD officers, two are pulling outwardly on his arms and another is trying to get control of his torso or legs. Magdaleno maneuvers out of that position and falls to the ground on his back. Two of the officers kneel down next to him punching his torso and his head. A fourth officer appears on the scene and the group of officers successfully flip Magdaleno onto his stomach to handcuff him. One officer is clearly punching Magdaleno in the back of the neck and head while three others dogpile on him in an attempt to subdue him. In the midst of the activity, a visible flash can be seen on Magdaleno’s back indicating one of the officers tased him while another continued to punch the back of his head. Finally, a fifth officer appears on the scene just as the struggle between the officers and Magdaleno begins to subside.
Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Captain Greg Van Patten told us that deputies have had several prior contacts with Magdaleno which he characterized as “possibly mental health-related.” Regarding yesterday’s incident, Captain Van Patten said deputies were dispatched to reports of a naked individual on Laws Avenue and South State Street, “right near the store” where the video was filmed. According to Captain Van Patten, deputies arrived at the incident after Magdaleno was detained and he demonstrated signs of “physical exertion being sweaty and overheated. Deputies gave him water to help him cool down.”
Gerardo Magdaleno’s sister Veronikita Diaz said her brother was under the influence of LSD during the encounter. She said he suffers from depression and “if he runs out of his lithium [a depression medication] he has a deep depression crisis and he tries to remedy with anything he can find.” She said that the Ukiah Police Department “knew him and his disorders well” and there “was no need for that.”
Diaz said, “Police brutality needs to stop. We are a small community. This could have been de-escalated very easily.
According to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office Booking Log, Magdaleno was booked into the county jail yesterday for charges associated with the videotaped incident. They included possessing drug paraphernalia, disorderly conduct due to alcohol, and resisting or threatening an officer.
![The Booking Log entry describing Magdaleno's arrest for sodomy charges [Picture provided by a Ukiah resident]](https://kymkemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/168038940_441774683577666_3326270953941792053_n.jpg)
The Booking Log entry describing Magdaleno’s arrest for sodomy charges [Picture provided by a Ukiah resident]
A document from the Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office entitled “Local Defendants Removed to State Prison in 2017” indicates Magdaleno was given a 32-month prison term for “Resisting by Use of Force.”
Magdaleno was featured in the Anderson Valley Advertiser’s booking log column “Catch of the Day” for December 23, 2019, where he was supposedly arrested in Boonville for a community supervision violation.
We reached out to criminal defense attorney Andrea Sullivan, who has defended people throughout the Emerald Triangle. We asked her for her thoughts on the Ukiah Police Department officers’ use of force as seen in the video.
Sullivan’s primary concern with the first video was the officer not attempting to deescalate the situation. Sullivan noted that she did not see the lead up to the video, but the “officers use of f-bombs was clearly agitating [Magdaleno].” When officers deal with individuals experiencing mental episodes, Sullivan said, “[B]est practices say they should calmly talk with them.”
Sullivan expressed concern that at the beginning of the second video there were no obvious signs that the officers were attempting to handcuff Magdaleno. She said they appeared to be “beating someone for the sake of beating him.” Sullivan was especially shocked that an officer began to tase Magdelano while other officers dogpiled on him because “other officers can be injured” when they are physically touching someone who is being tased.
The Ukiah Police Department’s Policy Manual has an entire section dedicated to use of force concerns. Section 300.3 dictates that “officers shall use only that amount of force that reasonably appears necessary given the facts and totality of the circumstances known to or perceived by the officer at the time of the event to accomplish a legitimate law enforcement purpose.”
When assessing the “reasonableness of force,” the policy says evaluations must “allow for the fact that officers are often forced to make a split-second decision about the amount of force that reasonably appears necessary in a particular situation.”
Policy 302 requires the establishment of a “Use of Force Review Board” in which UPD will “objectively evaluate the use of force by its members to ensure that their authority is used lawfully, appropriately, and is consistent with training and policy.”
Policy 302.3 says that when an employee’s actions result in death or very serious injury to another the employee will be placed in a temporary administrative assignment.
Ukiah Police Department has faced public scrutiny in the last few months after former Sergeant Kevin Murray was dismissed when accusations emerged of his involvement in a November 2020 incident of sexual battery, burglary, and drug possession resulting in charges being filed with the Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office. A second set of charges were filed one month later accusing Murray of rape and forcible oral copulation in 2014.
We reached out to the Ukiah Police Department for comment last night via email with the intention to publish at 10:00 a.m. if we did not get a response. Over the phone this morning, Lieutenant Andrew Phillips told us that a press release would be published by noon, and in the interest of including UPD’s perspective, we chose to hold off. At 1:00 p.m. Lieutenant Phillips emailed us, apologized the press release was not ready and said it would be ready in “an hour or so.” As of 2:27 p.m.the press release has yet to be released so we have chosen to publish it because an important story can get buried if it goes out too late on a Friday afternoon.
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Wtf?? Once again I would take these cops to the cleaners. This is an outrageous abuse of authority. I could get an easy 2 million just on summary judgment alone. People Get a gdam attorney asafp.
Edit: the triangle is a gold mine of abuse. From a 40 Yr seasoned “ambulance chaser”.
For what? Doing their job? Let’s see you wrestle with a tweeked out meth head! Cops actually gave him every chance to comply
Failing to comply, while unarmed and not harming others, is not sufficient justification for beating the crap out of someone.
Hardly a beating they hit him a few times to subdue him let’s see your technique in that situation. I bet you run and hide.
Or I’d just ignore the crazy person. It’s kinda a requirement for taking a walk down eureka’s 4th or 5th these days…
Now I’m not wicked pro cop, I kinda think they’re dicks, but I do feel like you shouldn’t walk pass a naked person on meth in public. It’s kinda what we pay them to do. But you damn sure don’t need to do excessive force on everyone. End qualified immunity
Apparently you didn’t watch the video very well either that I need need some fucking good glasses
Do you think raping 10 year olds is sufficient enough?
The man was non-compliant its clear. But he was not aggressive, he was standing still. I couldn’t tell if he had his fists clenched, but he was not holding any weapons and obviously didn’t have any hidden. What about talking to the guy to assess the situation? It looks like he was walking away from them when they tased him. I didn’t see any conversation, just the police escalating the situation.
The article says they have a file on him and his mental illness. They have had previous contact with the man. Did they automatically jump him using force based on the notes in the file and/or experiences they have had with him? Not really an excuse for escalating the situation immediately but it could have something to do with why they did.
I just don’t see how a naked man is such a threat to the police who are “armed and dangerous”. Everyone knows to proceed with caution when the police are around. Mentally ill people regardless of whether or not they are on meth, don’t always know that. Being high on meth with or without clothes is also not a reason to tase and beat a person.
Who, for a fact, said he was tweeked out at the time? Get rid of bad cops who don’t have any kind of patience at all. These three are making the force look a lot worse. No humanity left.
His sister. “Gerardo Magdaleno’s sister Veronikita Diaz said her brother was under the influence of LSD during the encounter.”
This is not ok
Phillips told Frederickson it is “very common for people under the influence of meth to get very hot and take their clothes off. [Magdaleno] was taken to the hospital to make sure he wasn’t suffering from meth psychosis.”
from the beginning of the article, the cops were under the impression he was high on meth because he was sweating.
Never one if you paid attention to the article you see that his sister said he took LSD not meth
A 5150 call is one of the most dangerous calls for LEO’s to make…There’s no safe or easy was to contain people in this condition…5150 refers to the California law code for the temporary, involuntary psychiatric commitment of individuals who present a danger to themselves or others due to signs of mental illness. It has been more generally applied to people who are considered threateningly unstable or “crazy.”
he was reported as being naked walking down the street. are you saying that without clothes a person is a danger to themselves or other?
I’m glad the police did that to that coward with the neck tattoos he is the scum of the earth and I have no sympathy for him that he has mental problems they should lock him for life for raping a male child. Give those cops an award. Good job Leo’s . I’m sorry the Leo s had to deal with a pedophile that chose to take lsd and get naked in the street. He is an obvious danger to society.
Oh my god now you were judging this mental person because of tattoos [edit]
How would you like that to happen to one of your children if you have children and maybe they were drunk and they miss judged him for meth heads you never know how would you feel if they beat them like that think about it and I mean think hard
The accusations against him for sexual abuse were recanted and the charged we’re dropped. The girl admitted she was lying.
he was naked on the street he is clearly not a coward. plus there were no children with him. the previous arrest is “alleged” and in this country one is innocent until proven guilty. We do not have any facts other than he was charged. Save your judgement and punishment for the time when/if he is proven guilty. The cops had no right to beat him based on that charge, if they did, where would we be, a place where cops will beat and torture you based on someone’s word?
Ambulance chaser, you are trash to the world then.
Have you done the job of a Police Officer? To many armchair attorneys on social media!
Spot on…It’s a thankless job, especially in liberal states…
I like how you’re defending a literal pedophile.
Too bad the whacked-out ass didn’t do as he was told. Wouldn’t have been much of an issue then. Dumbass got less than he deserved.
Agree with Chas. Fuck with the ambulance chaser too. And liberal DA and judges.
Was Ukiah investigated or trained when city of Santa Rosa and the entire Bay Area had the 2007 issue?with mmm how to treat person that are allegedly special? Quiet as a mouse grand jury proceedings and inferences from news articles of East Bay Indictments … . Mmm, yummy gossip. City police operate city cameras? Is there city cameras footage as well? So Kim care to speculate or guess on how grand jury proceedings are reopened? And if there is any connection yo any hard look at Bay police procedures? Mmm history of 2007 polar opposite, warning lawyer word, “fact patterns” … that the 2007 films according to lore did not in any way justify officer use of force? Logical inferences of indictments handed out like candy. Hope to see a follow up.
In the eyes of a Marxist of course.
We are worried about a pedophile getting injured?
He wasnt charged.
You could be arrested for that or murder or whatever, but if there is no evidence against you then you are not charged.
All you jackasses saying he deserved it, i hope and pray someone in your family that you love has mental illness issues. May your words come back to haunt you threefold.
Unfortunately it seems until folks experience things first hand they have no compassion or sense even. So be it. Learn the hard way.
Abuse by those in power is never ok.
Agreed!
Years on drugs turns into mental mess not illness. No one made him take the LSD, people on drugs are awesome. They should have let him be , I’m sure sooner or later he would have been playing frogger on the freeway, way to ruin all the fun, dang coppers always protecting everyone.
This is not even about that and they had to bring that dirt up to make their asses look better think about it
Where is your proof he’s a pedophile? Dude was charged but never convicted. I know cops believe people are guilty until the accused proves otherwise but the public should know better. Until the guy has been convicted or has a past conviction, he’s not been adjudicated to be a child rapist.
Sheesh.
Gotta ask did anyone check the story of the video augrapher. So random rumors of informal tactics … of law enforcement… . What is by design or was random … . Or or a couple of known problems when they was a couple of special cops in trouble… . Specifically, Kym … follow up? On were did the acid come from ? Mmm bad acid on the street ? … chemical lobotomies being passed around as candy? Any other fried is the new politically correct slang “Ukians?”
Did the cops know the videoaughaper was there or going to be there ? And, and??? Will they talk publicly if they or other peeps acted differently for the cameras??
I know the story of the video-augrapher she was at work and saw a naked man who was getting tased and mased by the cops so she pulled out her phone and started recording it. If you pay attention to the news there is also another person that was parked across the street who recorded this also. After all this happened the girl from the store called me and I posted this online. In no way should our officers who are there to protect and serve our community be acting like a bunch of thugs beating up an unarmed person, punching, kicking and even tasing this man after he was already down on the ground in cuffs! Thank god someone got a video of this happening. Kinda makes you wonder how often this does happen when nobody is around to record it and blast it to the media.
People get held and beat down all the time but they’re usually being initiated in a gang.
NYC is working on, at least partially, ending qualified immunity
Social worker could have handled it.
This is one instance where I believe a social worker would have been the right call. Unless he sodomizes children under ten, then he got off easy.
A naked, mentally ill man has no obvious weapons and is not a real threat to an armed officer. This is disgusting.
His previous crime, however outrageous, still is not a threat to officers.
He was unarmed.
Remember that mentally ill woman who suddenly punted a toddler standing next to her father into the street? Or the woman assaulted -“The victim told deputies that she had gone for a walk, during which she was reportedly attacked from behind by an unknown suspect in the area of Second Road and Elm Avenue. The suspect reportedly pushed the victim to the ground and stole the victim’s debit card and cash.” https://kymkemp.com/2020/12/14/woman-assaulted-cash-and-debit-card-stolen/ Not having a weapon does not preclude violent assault
He was never charged because the accusations as recanted. The girl said her mom made her lie. It happens all the time. There was no evidence and he was released. People are just using this story to try and justify it.
Lol ya he looks misunderstood!
Dont like what they did? Next time you can go fight him. Whaced out on LSD and fighting. I think we need to give you idiots exactly what you want. Next time call a social worker to talk to him. Whe m the social worker starts getting their ass kicked telk them to bad cops are bad deal with it. When they guy runs in front of a car and gets killed hold the social worker acxountable for not doing their job.
I dare you to start making sense.
Ok lets not start badmouthing LSD. This guy is the furthest thing from an LSD trip. Very few LSD trips end in naked fights. Naked OK but its not a promoter of violence. Lets leave LSD out of this one and focus on the fact that a guy with a previous rap sheet was found naked and combative. Deffinitely may have some mental issues and those are tricky at best. Pretty sure they could have arrested/ apprehended this chap with less violence and certainly less harm. This guy has a pretty dicey past no matter how you address the convictions. Sodomy is an act of aggression no matter how its performed.
Bath salts are really bad for the head.
He was schizophrenic and took lsd to self medicate and was likely going through medication withdrawals. He was never charged with sodomy because the girl recanted her statement and said her mom made her lie. They found no evidence.
Whacked out, drugged up nut job lucky he didn’t get the taser shoved up his ass. Those blows from officers are called “compliance strikes”, it’s part of their training! Stop being a dirtbag and resisting. Loser and the family just looking to get a payout from the police.
Nice! Dealing with a pedo on lsd is no joke! Cops did just enough! Dinner is on me at the AA
The lack of empathy is astounding. You people are why this country is in the toilet. He’s not a pedophile, those charges we’re dropped because the accusations was recanted. He is SCHIZOPHRENIC and took LSD to self medicate, because when he went to the ER for more medication they turned him away. But why have empathy for someone you seem to think is lesser than you right?
People who make grand denouncements starting with “you people” are obviously prevent short on empathy themselves.
Perhaps you should spend some time on the front lines and educate yourself with first hand experience before opening your mouth and expressing thoughts in regards to a situation I’m pretty sure your sheltered life has never provided! Mental health assistance such as medications, placement, and therapy is always provided and offered to individuals within the system and those looking to receive help, especially in this Liberal controlled state! If you were educated you would know Its actually the law, and no ER would “turn him away” in fact they are forced by law to provide help even knowing it will be short lived and go no where….. all at the tax payers expense!!!
The problem is with COMPLIANCE!!! Most unstable individuals are non-compliant with medications and prefer street drugs and street life over sobriety and stability! So reality check yourself…. nobody forced this person to have a bad “trip” and make more bad choices he made the choice himself! If he truly wanted help or wanted his medications he would of had them!
First responders know drug induced psychosis and paranoia causes “super human” strength in people that can cause serious harm to those intervening!! Perhaps PD they should let a “good samaritan” intervene with their alternative tactics next time and watch them learn this lesson first hand, bet there unrealistic opinion of tactics used would change dramatically!!
I find it interesting that propriety requires visuals of the man’s genitals be censored but not the violence perpetrated by the police. Which imagery is more likely to adversely impact the viewer?
Did you all here that it was meth induced and not mental health? Why you defending a doper who’s high and could have hurt someone? Should they have just let him keep walking and take the chance he won’t hurt someone? You wouldn’t think that way if he was walking
toward your family.
Refund the police!
This guy has a long history of being an intolerable human. I’m sick of people justifying this behavior and attacking the police. His alleged mental illness is no doubt merely alcohol, drugs and an antisocial personality. He needs to be put away permanently, preferably back where he came from.
Did you hear when his sister said he ran out of his meds that causes a psychotic break dumb ass Plus he was bipolar and schizophrenic put those together
Years of drug use cause all of those mental disorders. Looks like he is living the dream kids, aren’t drugs dandy.
His prior arrests are irrelevent.
This is why people talk about defunding the police. De-escalation should be the first response in situations like this. “Punching”? Screaming “f-bombs”? These behaviors are absolutely unacceptable from those sworn to serve and protect. There are no circumstances that justify this police response to a clearly unarmed (naked) and disturbed individual.
Meh, beating a guy, whatever. What we need is to SEE THEIR TEXT MESSAGES!! Maybe one of the cops said something to another that might cause butt hurt to people it wasn’t even addressed to. Then we could really get em!
He was obviously unarmed. Not even a cell phone to “mistake” for a weapon .
You are not very enlightened, to seek vengeance on the practical people just because we don’t care about your psychotic relative running naked in the streets.
No, I don’t care about that man, and there is zero reason I should.
We’ve put up for too long, sharing space with crazies because liberals want to be companionate to these kinds of people.
If the law cannot keep the streets safe and sane for the most of us, social chaos and cultural dereliction will only metastasize further.
We have to crack down on those that don’t participate in a functioning society, and make it much easier for those that do.
Zero fucks given. I’ll have a coke please.
You wack jobs defending a naked guy on LSD resisting arrest need a check up from the neck up! Better yet,go volunteer to help the cops deal with whacked out druggies! You people are deplorable
In cases like this, where is officer Callahan when you need him?
That was just stupid. The cop reminded me of a scared yapping little dog. The guy was obviously not all there but didn’t seem to be actively attacking him or motivated to do so. Yeah he fake punched, but he was so out of it it looked like a joke. Screaming like that just made it worse. The punching afterwards was not necessary. If you’re that scared wait for back up before escalating it.
I mean, shit, I don’t blame police using force when necessary, even shooting when necessary, but this wasn’t necessary. It was just stupid.
Fake punches don’t put someone in the hospital with a concussion and facial fractures. The UPD is just trying to cover their asses like the cowardly scum they are.
I said the guy faked punched. The naked guy.
Yes it’s always police brutality when viewed through murky video – by leftists. I was in the L.A. during the 92 riots. People killed and businesses burned to the ground all because a career criminal would not do what police told him to do. Saint Floyd was flying on various drugs when he was taken down last year. His heart gave out. He was already going to die. He said “I can’t breath” long before he was “brutalized.” Yes, anxiety and drug use cause career criminals (Saint Floyd brutally attacked a woman and had a long felony rap sheet) to have problems with breathing when they are caught passing fake bills (also a felony). What we SHOULD be talking about is simple: why are the mentally ill on the streets taking LSD when they should be with their families, in a nonprofit home, etc.? Why does society have to be degraded by their actions? People CHOOSE to take drugs they cannot handle. Libs blame those who have to clean up the mess. There would be no mess if people took responsibility for their actions, or their friends and families took care of their own. If someone is violent on a regular basis, then lock them up to protect society. Instead, we blame the messenger and the result is the revocation of liberty and the destruction of society. If you are always looking for bad cop behavior, you will find it. If I spent all day long following the Bored of Stuporvisors around, I bet I could jot down dozens of little infractions, and a few felonies too. They did, after all, repeatedly violate our Constitutional rights with the scamdemic.
Stop blaming those who have to clean up your mess, libs. You made a permissive, out of control culture (starting in the 60’s), you are now seeing the consequences of your selfish, arrogant, anti-American choices.
Watch Fox much !
You know I cannot read any more of these comments I literally am getting sick to my stomach you people are just want to make those cops look like they’re just as perfect as can be there a bunch of assholes they don’t give a shit about the human life they wanted to see how tough and big they can be
I sure hope you never get arrested because then you get a piece of that
I agree 100% the comments are a commentary of why our country is going down the tubes, intolerance is not something the founding fathers had in mind when writing the constitution. Intolerance is what causes empires to fall, that and abuse of power. we see a lot of both in the country these days.
Well said! Unfortunately we have turned into a society where no one is held accountable for their actions. Those who have to deal with the fallout from drug abuse are blamed for what others perceive as mishandling of the situation. What if the cops just ignored this behavior and that person harms or kills another innocent person; then they would be blamed for not doing their job. Police can’t win in today’s world.
You my friend are the reason I left Ukiah years ago.
I wonder if they hog tied him…
People high on meth, bathsalts, synthetic MJ, LSD, and anything are unpredictable. While I sympathize with this persons sister if she knows that he runs out of money or whatever to get his meds then she should step up to help him and not expect the police or anyone else to step in to do the job. We as first responders cannot force anyone to do anything but we also have a right to protect ourselves and go home to our families. He has choices albeit he is making unhealthy and unsafe one he has them – he could have gone to the emergency room or a clinic to get a prescription for his medications or get himself admitted to a healthcare facility.
Enough with the blaming first responders – they are doing a very difficult job and if you think you can do better go get the education required and step up!
Yah. I support our police.
You absolutely have a right to protect yourselves and go home to your families. I have no problem with deadly force either, when it’s called for.
In this instance it looks like the UP could use more training and so have more confidence and less emotional reaction. I don’t see any reason to punch him so much after getting him under control.
Well said Ben! These liberals need a tutorial on real life!
Agreed!
Curious if the police knew he was a pedophile. It is a small town they must of recognize him.
The possible victim recanted. So, we don’t know and neither do they.
How hot was that pavement? We are issued warnings about protecting our dogs paws from hot pavement, but a naked man under the influence of LSD should just lay on the hot pavement willingly.
UPD needs mandatory training in de-escalating situations with mentally ill persons and those under the influence. The naked fellow had no weapon, as they could clearly see.
Facial fractures and a concussion? I’d get a lawyer if he were my family member.
Yes I hope they do get an attorney I’m sure they have lotta people to help them
How about stop being a naked asshole? I bet would have a lot less trouble with cops. We need to defund asshole Criminals, as this country needs a better class of criminal. We should sue this asshoke and his family for raising him like that.
DRUGS MAKE KIDS DO THE DARNEST THINGS!
Darnest??? Are you trippin’ right now? Wish I was!!!
That was alot of sad opinion pieces to read through. But the gist is…people who read this site generally encourage police brutality and don’t believe in innocent until proven guilty. True Americans. And the people who believe in those concepts are the Marxist, terrorist, libtards. Pretty hilarious
It’s hard to understand this behavior until you know someone you care about who suffers from mental illness. He needed help, not a beating. It would have taken more time but the original police officer should have tried to de-escalate the situation. Let’s fund every police department so they have a mental health squad ready to respond to these kind of incidents. Trying to knock him unconscious by repeatedly punching him in the face and head as he lay on the ground was definitely over-the-top excessive, even if he was out of his mind. All officers should be educated with mental illness de-escalation techniques. Next they should train Jui-jitsu and learn how to subdue someone without the beating.
Yes! Doesn’t jujitsu feature an array of highly effective choke holds? Oh, wait a minute, maybe that isn’t such a great idea after all.
On a serious note, why don’t the cops have a device that fires a net.
Might be really hard to get someone out of a net if they’re freaking out. Could easily get bit.
What we didn’t see is what happened when the first cop arrived.
Okay kids- Remember Rule #1: Always use the buddy system when you drop some LSD. And it is strongly suggested that you have a responsible friend around who does not take the LSD. Just in case… Now – Go have some fun!!!
Looks like they did their job. Thank you UPD!
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What the fuck! This is soooo uncalled for!
People with mental health histories should never be treated this way. The police and their shameful response should be cause for the public to be very concerned about police interactions and their policies with mental health episodes.
I really don’t want to know where they found the drug paraphernalia.
Phew! That was close… he almost… uh… what did he do?
F’ed a child in the *ss. Then took meth and was aggressive to cops. They frown at that..
Wow, what I see is resisting arrest, verbal demands with failure to comply, then pepper sprayed with failure to respond, and attempted taser, least invasive moves, then the naked man is coming towards the officers after Asked to get on the ground, wow, too much here in the video, instruction, instruction, instruction !!!!!! No compliance and even if its drug induced psychosis, it’s a fact that a person can have double the strength and adrenaline going, can have and do have the ability to fatality assault police officers, nurses, doctors, staff on the regular…..and they do, speaking from experienced as a medical professional…. take downs rarely go according to plan, personally I have been hit, kicked, charged, and more in a controlled setting…. by men just like this, unpredictable and drugged….. sorry mental illness does not excuse a person from protection of themselves, and that does not exclude police officers….. I’ve witnessed unprovoked assaults on staff, resulting in permanent injuries, by men similar to this one…. pretty soon the idea of policing will be walking away, and the public will have to deal with men like this, at the rate we are going, then we will see reality and mayhem….
If Hitting the head is a tactical response, I don’t know about that but maybe it is….remember when police officers die it’s noble and commended, but if they are using their words and getting no response, and the person comes towards them and not complying with intent, hands on are normally the next step, even in other settings…..remember somebody called the police, naked man on the street and acting inappropriately, I’m assuming and police are not sure what the man has taken, or how altered he is…. family members have lied to me about patients and there personal diagnosis’s, and it’s not up to a police officer to make these judgements, just listen to details and continue to seek containment in the moment… so yes education is our best friend, but remember professionals get hurt everyday by the ones you call innocent or mentally ill…
In mental health situations t we don’t lay hands on them and oftentimes just watch. Keep him safe from his self and others. That’s the biggest duty here when people are not mentally right is to get them to place where they can be protected until they’re sober again or can be put somewhere for their safety. That doesn’t mean beat the shit out of them ,knock their teeth out, give them skull fractures and brain damage. Then throw them in a cell handcuffed face down. Anybody ever had a skull fracture before? Live to tell about it? Does the benefit outweigh the risk? If beating him will better all then beat away. The officer’s hand…would be interesting to look at fracture points and forces required to produce injuries.
Is it TRULY smart to have police forces punching people? Boxers wear gloves for a reason.
I work in healthcare and have been physically attacked and verbally assaulted by patients who are “ not in their right mind” and it is inexcusable. There are laws that now protect personnel in emergency rooms and icus from patients regardless of reason. Done of these protections should be in place for law enforcement as well.
Glad you non mental health can just standby and watch but if that is the future of healthcare then I after forty years want no part of it.
The cops need a gun that shoots clothes on people. Would have taken care of half the problem here, maybe even helped dude get a job. And watch officer white pants to save the day!! Too bad you missed out on the head punches, next time white pants!!!
They don’t know if he was actually on meth. I experienced a situation where police assaulted a man allegedly on drugs . HE was actually having an epileptic seizure.
So, you bleeding heart liberals admitted that doing drugs and mental illness goes hand in hand. Like most homeless people have drug and alcohol addictions, but the focus is on mental health.
Cheers to you. We have to explain to our foreign exchange students and the parents we sponsor the process of our legal system. It can be difficult explaining to a European parent of a mentally handicap individual that the police broke there son’s jaw for not providing his identity fast enough.
In this case. Implied immunity is what they hide behind. At that point everyone from the phone manufacturer the video was taken on all the way to the communications equipment used to convey the urgent call to hurt a citizen all become fair game. Did he stumble on a crack in the pavement? Was it a prior complaint on the crack?
To the cleaners Batman!
Good. Get that POS. Tired of people like this out in society, repeat offending, not afraid of the system, because it doesn’t work because of people who thinks everyone deserves MULTIPLE CHANCES!! I would love to see how all you commenting out there about brutality would react if YOU were confronted by this drugged out thug. No matter what, I’m sure you would do absolutely ANYTHING to make sure you got back home alive. Innocent people and families/kids around? He should be glad his a$$ didn’t get merc’ed. So sick of all this “hug it out” mentality, he needs help, give him another chance. No…most of the time they have had MORE than enough and it will never change anything due to their upbringing and constant drug use. Off with his head!! Make more room on this Earth for productive members of society.
It’s a pretty shocking video until you continue to read the story and find out this guy’s background of raping a child under the age of 10 not only a month ago but he’s even out on bail for it at the moment.
After finding out this guy raping little kids all that contempt for the police kind of just washes away and you feel like the tax dollars are being put to good use.
Anybody that defends this guy is defending a pedophile.
These officers should be awarded.
Early…that’s not very Early like!!! Don’t touch the trim!!!
It was recanted. Looks like it didn’t happen.
I wanna thank Kym for moderating some pretty horrible fascist crap calling for violence, previously left in the comments on this story.
Kudos
I’m proud to Back the Blue!!! The disgusting and disrespectful language and actions towards law enforcement is sickening considering the hippacritical people that mistreat law enforcement are usually the FIRST to call on them when they feel threatened, offended or need help!
If this guy was intimidating them, violated their children or family I doubt there “deescalation” tactic ideas would be sufficient! Have you ever tried to rationalize with someone on Crystal Meth or LSD in psycosis state?????
Not a single person who complains about law enforcement has the actual courage to go face to face with danger, instead they hide behind judgement like cowards until the time comes that they actually need police help…. who would you call if this obviously drug induced psychosis individual ended up in your backyard? On your property around your children…. Call a local family therapist counselor????? Please, UPD and these officers deserve credit for cleaning our streets of this garbage!!
I’m failing to see a problem with this encounter. Far simpler solution comes to mind instead of spraying chemicals all over messing with the environment when the suspect would not comply with the officer’s orders to get on the ground.
But outrage is what armchair activists use. Lord knows they won’t fight for what they believe in..
There JOB is to respond to our calls. We pay there JOB with our TAXES.
They are not white knights as you so see.
There JOB is to PROTECT and SERVE.
As I stated before. 40 years dealing with cops and robbers. Only difference between the two is one got caught.
PS. I had a cop take the stand once bleeting his heart out about how dangerous his job was. Little did he know my client was a logger and we brought in a gentleman from the Department of labor to address just how dangerous his police officer job was. Lol needless to say, cop looked like a fool and got educated on just how safe his job was.
it’s more dangerous to work construction or be a delivery driver than a cop. and if they wanna talk about all of the DiSrEsPeCt, let’s talk about retail workers and waitstaff…. neither of which are known for suddenly murdering thousands of people.
The focus here, is on those Bad Cops, End of story!
This is actually yet another good opportunity to talk about the sickness at the core of policing.
Treat em like a king!
Grown man takes LSD loses his mind and clothes, goes walking into a public place. Someone calls the cops. LSD man gets beat up resisting arrest, taken to jail, end of story.
This man is not a victim. He made poor choices and had to deal with the consequences of his actions. Thank you Ukiah PD for dealing with this mess.
acab.
bootlickers up in here are the same jerks that talk a big game about “freedom” and “how great america is.” it’s gross af.