I'm obsessed with your content and style of delivery. Love all the way from South Africa. ❤️ You've covered 2 SA cases that I know of, please may you do another? That of Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp. Thaaaaaaannnkksss. Xo

It takes a lot of mental fortitude to continuously make videos about topics like this. Your research seems on point and being a part of the conversation allows you to make some valuable contributions ‼️ Keep up the good work 💯 ✨ Still listening 🎧 -- untreated mental health issues are at the core of so many of these sorts of incidents.

I just finished the video and loved that you focused on the mental health part of it all. It gets overlooked so much and people so easily point the finger to suicidal tendencies. Tho id love it in the future if you put the victims stories first like you used to do in past videos even if you don't know that much about it. I think so anyways, tho i understand it's a different kind of case. Thanks for covering this case! I'll be looking forward to the next one :)

@@tebogolegodi1174 Thank you! It's not Pistorius but we are back in South Africa next week!

Love your videos Adrian, and I'm hoping nobody comes for you because of the way La Jolla was pronounced. Either way loved the story.

YEP police was negligent. RIP to the mom and her kid.

I havent even finished watching but yea the police dismissed it as soon as they found out the kid was a millionaire. Money does not make people mentally stable such a narrow way to think of life

I wonder why they didn't hide his car keys despite knowing he was having mental breakdown

yeah. Think the City will sue the parents to save grace on the police. Those policeman must now live with the fact that 3 people died due to them not acting. This oh he has to hurt someone or break the law first then he can be arrested mindset is shocking.

I was literally going to post the exact same thing. This is the bullshit that makes me so angry. And the government wonders why we do not trust them. Even the city government is fucking stupid. I just can't

Agreed. I don't know enough about the laws of CA to say for sure, but if those Police Officers genuinely couldn't do anything in that circumstance shown, that's the problem. If they COULD do something, and chose not to or were unaware that they could, THAT'S the problem. One of those 2 reasons cost 3 people their lives.

@@wezacker6482 the CA law is 5150, as stated in the video, which is a

@Goatbe Bryant More concerned about making jokes about Trevor teaching him how to make millions. So inappropriate.

You forgot the most important part: *gave birth to and raised a dangerous murderer*

Something needs to be done about this. What in the world do we pay them for if they aren't taking the responsibility seriously. Why do we arm and armor them up if they don't think we are worth putting their lives on the line for? [Talking about texas] The land of "manly big gun big truck mans" With a chickensh police dept.

Tell me you don’t understand civil rights without telling me you don’t understand civil rights.

It is almost like cops are not trained to handle mental health issues and we need to find people who can help.

I swear people cry about police brutality and then complain why they don't take action without proper evidence. Its really funny if you think about it.

Same can be said about school shootings. So many red flags are ignored before they happen

@@ninakuup21 Ever consider the police in America are morons?

They Always Wait Until the Tragedy Comes 💯🤷🏽‍♂️

im sure you are perfect - congrats , the parents are to blame they failed their son by allowing his manic episodes to get to that stage without ever stepping in

Thanks. Great work to you too.

@@gavin1980 do the boots taste good?

@@jaden3651 ok I don’t agree with that comment, but what?

@@jaden3651 What the actual fuck does that even mean?

I agree with everything that you stated 100%.

Not the job of the police.

Welcome to progressive California.

The cops should be held legally responsible for the death of all three people. They need to be in jail. If they want to be cops, there should be consequences for not doing a good enough job

Agreed. Plus the way he was clapping inappropriately and the Dad had to tell him it wasn't the time for that. Like come on.

This whole he has to meet a criteria bullshit is really stupid. Like seriously stupid. If someone really concern you just do it anyways investigate it. You wonder why most people in the states hate cops.

This is the state of mental health in the “western world” at large unfortunately. Everywhere seems to have zero legal responsibility to do anything about the problem.

Yes and he may look like a grown man, and legally be an adult, but he was EIGHTEEN ffs. His poor brain couldn't process everything that had happened to him in such a short space of time.

America's finest city.

@@teebobaggins America's homeless tweaker border drugs poop sidewalk city. Oh well at least it's sunny here durrrpdeeerrrrp

If I was the parent, I would have told them flatly "Not appropriate, Officer." With a stress to Officer. Since someone is supposed to be professional while there's a mental health call.

Yea this is how a lot of cops are... very cocky and joking around when it’s something very serious. Just imagine what they say when the cameras are off. The US needs to make it harder to become a police officer, I personally know people who became cops. That have no business carrying a gun and enforcing laws! Most police departments have a bunch of idiots running around enforcing laws they can’t even spell. It amazes me how other smaller countries require so much more to become police officers as the US barely does a physical test to see if they’re fit enough to run and jump over a gate. They might do it one time and that’s it, I was in Portugal and the Police looked like they just left the army. Everyone was in shape and actually cared about the people they were helping.

@@rosenoel that’s a great way to get them to antagonize you and do their absolute best to make sure you don’t get what you want 👍

Unfortunately all too commonly people mistake glitter and cash for integrity.

@@cvgodd1432 while everything you are saying is true, and I don't disagree, we still need decent people to apply in the first place. Where I am police have gotten such a bad reputation that no one even wants to be a cop. If you want to make a difference you pick any of the other several well respected and in many ways safer profession. So the few still applying are at best looking for a paycheck with benefits that you don't have to go to college for. At worst well let's not even go there....

He still had no right to go and take two lives with him. I have no sympathy for him after that

@@Obi7Haki not his fault that no one ( besides his parents ) took his problems seriously and just shrugged them off. Dude needed help, never got it and look what happened. Dude just snapped. It's a sad situation all around.

You can agree that he was failed by the service and not feel sorry for him

​@@smolivesmolive2798 To a certain extent- I do feel bad for him, he was crying for help and no one took it seriously. While it is true that he is at blame for the deaths of the mother and daughter, he is not alone to blame. Their blood, along with his, is on the hands of the police and rest who refused to take the situation seriously. This could've been easily avoided.

@@CaseyRedgrave not his fault, after he taking two lives? Tell that to the mother and daughter’s family. Go on sir, tell ‘em. See how they feel.

Exactly, and with all the school shootings, it's not something to ignore.

@@Mandy-Lee I agree wholeheartedly.

The way the laws on involuntary psychiatric hospitalization are set up in the US, it is VERY hard to get someone with a severe mental illness put on a hold, especially if the person refuses treatment. Also, the phrase "a danger to themselves or others" (the reason for making the hold request) is often misinterpreted by the authorities. So a lot of the time nothing will be done until someone is severely injured and/or killed.

Well instead of this huge argument about gun control, I wish they would focus on mental health. Seems like the way to go to save lives.

@@mariakelly90210 this. I have a relative with serious issues. It's next to impossible to get someone involuntarily committed. Especially if they are smart enough to not talk about crazy stuff in front of the cops.

Exactly this.

Literally this. They wouldn't have done anything before. When his parents and someone who is a psychiatrist and knows him says he needs help, perhaps just speak to him?!

california for ya.... pfffffff awful

You guys seem to forget our rights in America, a police officer cannot just detain you for no reason if you’re 18+ which he was parents can’t control what happens with him, the police couldn’t do anything there

@@thomasunderwood5780 That's not true. It happens all the time. In New York a car cut off a mailman as he walked to his truck while they were speeding. The mailman yelled slow down. It turns out the people in the vehicle were plain clothes police officers. They had no reason to detain him but they did. They said he was resisting arrest. Everybody had their phones out filming. Of course he was not. He had committed no crime when he yelled to them to slow down. They left the postal truck unlocked and wide open when they took him to precinct. Since he was a federal government employee just doing his job their heads rolled. They were used to doing what they did but they finally did it to the wrong person.

Stop calling a murderer “bro”

@@pattimaeda6097 eat sand

​@@fvgeat your bros charred corpse

@@pattimaeda6097 eat dirt

They COMPLETELY tunnel visioned from the start on their assumption that she was like a dramatic Karen just causing drama in the neighborhood or some thing. Because of that all they did was argue with her in the driveway instead of actually listen to the parents or actually attempt to even interact with Trevor to see if he fit their “criteria“. I cannot comprehend it.

if dr. rusher was male, they probably would've taken him in for evaluation :-)

You could hear from the start they were eager to dismiss it. I wonder, were they just upset they actually had to do a meaningful job that day? Did they let their own favorite narratives regarding mental health get in the way of an actual evaluation of the actual situation? I guess we'll never know.

Having the cops deal with mental health crises is about as much sense as if we made plumbers work as tax attorneys.

In California "A police officer, a mental health professional, or a person who is a licensed member of a crisis team." all have the right to call a 5150 and it would be illegal for these officers not to do so under that recommendation. so very sad.

That’s America for you

@@Cat-tg8nk you are not wrong 🙃

I’m not, cops especially American ones are useless

I'm doing a citizens police academy and 2 things I picked up that sucked. 1. there are so many crimes that they only focus on the stupid horrible obvious ones and 2. half of the time it goes to court and just gets dismissed.

Honestly, I'm sadly not shocked. So many horrible events happen due to police not taking action, looks at the recent school shooting in Texas for example

What did his parents do? When their boy was crying and breaking down, they did zero. They lived with him and didn't do anything. But you're putting the blame on police who didn't even know him and had to abide by certain rules.

Parents should of taking him to a physiologist they had the money

@@marycarter6134 What if they did and got the SAME answer? He hasn't done anything YET....

Not the job of the Police. At the time the young man was not a criminal, what are they supposed to do?

@@gregutz4284 the job of police should be emphasized as prevented crime. Unfortunately it isn’t that way, but one way that we could better reach that goal is taking mental health more seriously. This was entirely preventable had he been mentally evaluated.

True , also parents are reluctant to call police on a loved one because they are afraid the police will show up and shoot their child.

Yea we should get rid.of our own guns and let these stupid cops "keep us safe"

Mental health is no joke

@@Depths17 agreed ,Mental health issues affect us all , and people immediately blame guns , look at the Uvaldi texas shooting , that gun didnt walk into that school by itself and start shooting . Kid was mentally ill. Again everyone is focussing on the fire arm.

It's more so the laws that govern police actions that are at fault. Without a crime or signatures of two licensed psychiatrists there's nothing the police can do, even if they wanted to. It's ridiculously difficult to get an order for a psych commitment from a judge for a person with no documented history of causing harm to others or themselves. The most you can get on word of mouth is a welfare check.

Because nobody wants to be the bad guy so blame someone else

I have to question parents that allow their kids, with undeveloped minds, to spend all their time in fantasy land online.

@@TheMary0831 that is 60% of the population including me

@@findthebox8623 Well good luck with however your kids turn out then I guess.

Agree 100%

I understand that, but in some cases they could have taken someone that would not fit the criteria and then the police would be to blame. there is no right move here. either you follow the rules and you're in the wrong, or don't follow the rules and you're still wrong

I still find that bullshit especially when you heard the phone call to police by someone who is concerned about someone mental health.

@@raidtard better safe than sorry. Unfortunately now they have to be sorry.

@@blujaebird I get it, in this case it was a sad decision from the police. But imagine that it was a different situation and was some girl mad at his boyfriend and calls the police on him and get him taken. I get it about the better fmsafe than sorry, but it won't apply for everyone

Police were just following the rules and law. Its no one’s fault.

It's so retarded. Severe mental illness may not show serious symptoms long beforehand and not being possible to act sooner, they did what was within their available legal means but was told that the mom could move out for the month it takes to evict her hallucinating and deaththreat throwing son out on the street.

They indeed didn't acted sooner. They called the cops they day he killed himself and two innocent people. If the police forced him to go somewhere, without consent or any legal reason, they can face lawsuits. The family's friend who was a doctor, wasn't Trevor's own doctor. I literally can't blame the police knowing about the hundreds of lawsuits they faced when they acted and did what the family was asking them to do. Sorry!!

@@hus390 Untrue. The parents acted as soon as they saw he was a danger to himself or others. They were sure that something bad was gonna happen soon and that’s why they called the cops. He was 18 and that was the only way they could get him help LEGALLY. The cops failed in their job. A 5150 required them to evaluate this kid, make sure he wasn’t a danger to himself or others, and if he was, get him to a hospital and THEN leave the scene. They did the opposite. They were concerned with his car more than his life and that’s why he and two other innocent people are dead. This kid was not mentally well enough to know right from wrong, his parents were bound by law which stated they couldn’t involuntarily commit him because he was an adult, the psychiatrist friend could only give her personal recommendation because she wasn’t caring for him professionally. So who else is there to blame? Nobody other than the cops.

@@hus390 Yea, they didn't force him to go and look what happened? Potential lawsuit looking a little better now doesn't it?

You cannot force someone into services. Involuntary in-service is not enacted until someone is in full blown crisis. So no its not surprising that the state didn't respond until the point of no return. I work in the field and have a certification through the BACB and the MACBO. I have call the police with clients in such intense crisis blood covered the walls and two separate staff went to the emergency room. Police are not equipped for crisis in any sort and often will not engage. I know this from multiple police calls. This is a failure on the state to not IMMEDIATELY react when someone is showing physical aggression and a clear mental break along with a family begging for help.

The parents literally didn’t take him to get evaluated lmao they tried to force the police to do what THEY were supposed to do.

@@youtubeshypocrisy he was 18, so they couldn’t make him go. wanna try again?

​@@hocky-ham324-zg8zc u can't reason with trolls n idiots bro.some guys are idiots bro

​@@hocky-ham324-zg8zc I've been in a completely different, yet similar situation. I live in a country where there are less if any checks to take someone in against their will. I was falsely accused of being a danger to myself, I was taken away from my own living space (I lived alone) and was physically intimidated to leave and be taken for evaluation at ward. I could keep no belongings, I had no ID on me, and the place was awful. I was clueless, had to share a small space with people with clearly more problems than me. I was drugged against my will. There was nothing to do. I couldn't leave until I was cleared AND had someone pick me up. A woman there was cleared but couldn't leave because her son was "too busy" to pick her up. She was crying to staff so she could phone call her son and they would not let her. Honestly I think the folks at the "Flying over the Cuckoo's Nest" were treated better. ABDUCTING people with alleged mental health problems works in this case because we know the outcome. But for other people, it is a violation of their own physical and bodily autonomy. I can't bear hear doorbells or see police any more because it was a very traumatic event. Imagine giving police and crazy parents the power to abduct ADULTS because of "claims" of mental health issues. No. You need a court order. You need an evaluation. Otherwise the system just does more harm than good. I can testify for that.

@@hocky-ham324-zg8zc Apparently you don't respect ur parents anymore. I'm 28 and If i ever did that kind of crap my mother woulda smacked me across the face and pulled me out of the house by my hair and I would know I messed up. They did NOTHING as parents to stop him

I love that he honours the victims, so few true crimes channels do that, yet profit off their deaths. Most be so difficult for the families, seeing your beloved family member only known for their murder and nothing else

if you check on the other comments, they are still being blamed for it nevertheless

true so hard to control an adult especially when they are in a mentally unstable condition. Clearly a professional needed to handle him.

@@koweedate yes I dont understand why they are blaming the parents even after watching this video. they called the cops on their own son and were not given help.

Yeah. They lost their son twice... once when his mind slipped and another when he died.

Idk how much truth was there when the police saying they could not help when the parents called, but it's really frustrating, and one of the police's inappropriate remark about asking their son to teach them how to make that much money in a desperate call for help by their parents certainly paint an ugly picture of the police.

@@lifeloverNorris Those cops are the criminals here. They absolutely should be held accountable for what happened.

@@lifeloverNorris there is zero truth behind the police not being able to help. They should have detained him. They were within their rights to even arrest him for threatening bodily harm nevermind just section him... those police were just lazy assholes. My parents had to have my sister sectioned when she was like 16 or 17. I was 19 and came home and found her in a manic state at our house. All it is is making the person safe and getting a mental evaluation. Those police are 100% at fault for not bringing him to the hospital. Coffee house even read out the California code. The problem is that a 5150 didn't count towards their arrest numbers so it wouldn't help the police gain a promotion

It's like that Simpsons scene where Wiggum says: "Just show me the knife, in your back, not too deep but it should be able to stand by itself."

Exactly! Blame shifting.

Sounds like they couldn't be bothered with the paperwork. I know officers who will give certain cases the wide berth because all the admin work that comes with it...

I miss the SD flea market....I use to live in o'side.... Oceanside

I used to live there in the late 90s, early 00s. Looks like not much has changed. I loved the weather and things to do, but otherwise am glad not to be in that mix anymore.

They were notorious, you mean. You wrote "they were nitrous"

What a shame that this could have been prevented had they not been too lazy to do paperwork and too indifferent to public safety to do their job. SMH

How does some start struggling with mental issues? It just starts happening out of no where? Is it from drug use? I’m just confused about the whole mental illness thing. He just goes crazy because he has a lot of money?

Totally agree with you 100% The system is broken & noone wants to try to Fox it...our elected officials should be held acontable for not passing the laws that need to address mental health & very importante "Gun laws" that we the people have been fighting for since like for ever, with all of the school shootings.....They like the money alot more than any one of us & or our familys...Blessings to you all from puerto rico with lots of love

They were impressed by his money making schemes. Poor mum and sister.

@@mariatorres5563 Gun law? He used a CAR!

Very sad for your loss. It must hurt so much to lose such a good mother and sister in such pointless loss. My prayers and good wishes to you and your family.

I'm so sorry for your loss Dominic. I lost my twin sister 10 years ago and its a pain that never ever leaves you. Sending good vibes your way man.

Im so sorry dominic. I hope he sees this!

I'm so so so sorry for your loss Dominic. Stay strong, and remember there is always a light at the end of the tunnel ❤

I’m so sorry for your loss 🤍🤍

you think police are useless, you try and do the job. You wouldn't last one day

@@lyricberlin they would cause again they are useless. Do you realise how easy it would be. All I have to do is say "sorry can't help" or "that's your problem" and not get any recourse legally. We will last a day in their shoes their shoes are the easiest to fill.

@@lyricberlin Stop being a boot licker. The police were incompetent in this scenario and they're responsible for these deaths.

@@lyricberlin obviously the police was useless in this case.

I've never heard a song about the fire service saying fuck the fire department but I've heard a lot of songs saying fuck the police, ask yourself why

I agree

one of them a professional in that field it sounds like the police where looking for excuses not to, like oh but hes not your patient right?

THEY NEVER GAVE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES that’s why he wasn’t escorted. The cops were looking for certain words that had to be said Also ultimately it’s not the cops decision to take him or not / it’s either ambulance on scene or her doctor You can’t just throw someone in cuffs and forced them to a psych ward for 72 hours just because someone stated “he’s a danger to himself” without expanding on it

@@bartglowa6778 Shouldn't a licensed psychiatrist telling you that he's a potential danger be enough?

@@ricesneeze7107 no. She doesn’t treat him directly and to repeat myself - gave no specific examples or why he’s a danger I’m a cop and I talk a lot of crap about cops cause there is a lot of aholes that are cops But this particular scenario they did absolutely NOTHING wrong at all

Define "quick"

@@Vaginaninja Imediately after they noticed he was losing his mind?? Did you watch the video?

Mental health problems - especially mania, if that actually actually was Trevor's condition - are often difficult to treat in the best of cases. Whether or not San Diego had a policy about it, police typically are not properly trained or oriented towards mental health assessment in the field. It's a mistake to blame them, or the city. What we should be doing, in every state, is FUNDING mental health services and facilities. But health insurance doesn't want to pay for it and neither does anyone else, apparently.

i mean you cant just randomly take ppl in because some one else says you should thats a slippery slope

@@marcushoglund5893 yeah except they had a licensed psychiatrist there with them and were not "randomly" requesting that

@@byoshizaki1025 When I was in my late teens, one of my friends began displaying symptoms of the paranoid schizophrenia he was eventually diagnosed with. Trying to reason with him was exactly the same as trying to reason with my father years later when he had dementia.

Do we know what department this is?

They were just some people hating their jobs and blowing shit off. And **Thats why cops have to be more**, this breaks my fucking heart. I’m always team cops but these guys make it hard and fucked it up so bad and had every single sign to make a difference and ignored it

Totally agree

Do you know there's literally a supreme court ruling that says police don't have to do their jobs? (not trolling. It's real).

Not at all.

Some mental illnesses only manifest at adolescence.

Mental Illness can also be triggered by stressful event. Mainly losing his job/business.

As sad as it is, that rule kind of makes sense so psychiatrists can’t just go around calling the cops on people they don’t like or random strangers. But in this case the cops should’ve at least called a mental health evaluator directly to the house

As I agree with your intent that is simply not how the law is written. Simply because you can’t jail people you want just because you may think something is wrong with someone. Being in EMS we see this often where people make false claims to get the out of their house etc. sucks that he actually needed help. They should have called EMS for evaluation and talked to him prior to disengagement.

The actions of the officers seems insane itself. Even if there is a conflict of interest, if a psychiatrist is of their professional opinion that a person is suffering from a mental illness AND likely presents a risk to themselves or others, there should be a legally-supported avenue to detain them (and psychiatrists wouldn't just apply this to their hearts content because the medical board would likely suspend them for unprofessional conduct and/or unsatisfactory practice). This exists in most countries. In fact, in Australia, certain public officers (including police officers and/or ambulance officers, who can also liaise with each other in the situation) can 'section' or detain under the Mental Health Act a person who they suspect may be suffering from an mental health disorder, even if this is based on information provided by a caregiver (they should generally observe this person to subsequently complete the formality of this submission), so that they may be formally evaluated by a medical practitioner, usually in an ED. I think this case almost certainly has the hallmarks of someone who is acute and actively suffering from a mental health disorder (or potentially drug affected, as certain recreational drugs or combinations thereof can also produce such a state) so it would be unfair to cast any aspersions on this person, not matter who they were as a person before this change in their mental state. Their reality appears completely decoupled from the common one that others in their environment share AND they do not have the insight to recognise this. The officers responding and their actions should be investigated. If they are found to have correctly administered their duties, then there is greater culpability on the systems in place to manage these situations (it clearly and evidently failed and is likely to do so again in the future in a similar situation) and the liability should fall here.

Dumb cops were just too lazy to do their job and searched for an excuse to go shove donuts in their faces while fantasizing about being able to buy a super sports car. 😡

Several friends and family members are now deceased at a young age because of apathy. A family member was in the Santa Fe shooting and almost didn't survive. Apathy!

Police can't arrest somebody because they thought some stupid shit.

@@Rapture582 Did you miss the entire section about PERT holds and that he was obviously qualified to be detained on those grounds, and that he had admitted to breaking the law by going 100 the wrong way in a 25? The police just couldn't be bothered.

@@Rapture582 It's not an arrest, it's detention under PERT (psychiatric emergency response team). The police handling of this situation is unforgivable.

@@Rapture582 I mean they've arrested people for much less, so what stopped them this time?

@@user-us9mk1de9m "I mean they've arrested people for much less, so what stopped them this time?" Smaller arrests are less paperwork and hustle.

Maybe the cops need to be evaluated? Hmmmm.....

"he didn't break any laws" driving 120 mph in a 30 zone the wrong way is no crime?

I don't think they should feel guilty at all. Nonsense!! If the police forced him to go somewhere, without any legal reason, they can face lawsuits. The family's friend who was a doctor, wasn't Trevor's own doctor. I literally can't blame the police knowing about the hundreds of lawsuits they faced when they acted and did what the family was asking them to do. Sorry!!

You understand the cops LITERALLY can not do anything. By the law- which they enforce, they can not arrest someone because someone else thinks they need to be detained… and tbh, thank God for that… In this case it turned out to be tragic, but the fact remains… And this is not coming from some cop bootlicker… I very rarely agree with police action. But lets be honest… if the cops decided to take a strong arm approach w this kid and ended up putting a bullet in his head cuz he lunged at them- they’d be on the stand defending their lives… and if the law says you cant detain someone that hasn’t done anything yet- they’d be going to jail…

@@hus390 It's literally the law where they are that they can do that. That's why they kept referring to 5150. And she does not *have* to be his actual physician, she was on site and qualified and they were required to respond to her concerns with significantly more seriousness than they did. But hey, guess they've got a lawsuit now, eh?

what job were the police called for at that incident that they could've helped? they cannot arrest him. he needed a psychiatrist. the parents and family failed him

@@flipnap2112 they couldn’t force their son into mental help, so they called the police in hopes that they could detain him and take him in and he would be FORCED to receive help, the police dropped the ball on this one.

@@flipnap2112 I see you didn't watch the actual video, where in the police are literally who get called to involuntarily commit people for psychological issues. They're literally who get called for wellness checks. Now should they be? Nope, but that's what the US has tasked them with.

Like the other reply said, the police can involuntarily admit someone to psychiatric care, at least in CA. That was their job, Dr. Rusher even called it out by code.

@@flipnap2112 the cops are legally allowed to detain a person pending investigation, which doesnt require a crime since it's not an arrest and no charges are filed. It's a different kind of law enforcement, which is still public safety. The law here is CA 5150, which allows the cops to detain and escort any person to a hospital for a professional evaluation by a doctor, for up to and including 72 hours maximum. After that time, they are legally required to be committed to hospital by a clinician for further treatment, or released. Since it's not an arrest, there doesnt need to be a crime yet, just the concern of threat to self or others, which they had. The cops dropped the ball from the jump by not even interviewing trevor and observing him with their own eyes, instead assuming a lot and giving the bare minimum non answer of how to obtain a TRO / eviction. They didnt do their *one job* of law enforcement to ensure public safety hands down period imo

No wonder some of them are tagged as pigs! Smh

Fucking ACAB

I totally agree

They not only failed the people who were killed, but they also failed Trevor who was clearly very mentally ill and not accountable for his own actions. Even in his state of psychosis he tried asking for help and the police didn’t do anything. His parents and neighbour even did everything they could to prevent the situation

they where probably scared of being sued by an angry teenager with his own money or something? like when they where questioning the psychiatrist, trying to find any loophole out of doing their jobs.

Just because you're intelligent doesn't mean you don't suffer from mental health issues... It affects anyone and everyone... such a sad and frustrating story

"The system is broken" This trashole and his family had more than enough resources to get help. Look at his actions before his "breakdown," he was a douche bag. What kind of jerk buys a car like that? And what kind of loser millionaire still lives at home? He was clearly just a shitty person. Good riddance. It's a shame others had to suffer because of this jerk.

Unfortunately there's no such thing as accountability for the people that make the most serious decisions.

HMMMMMMMMMMM i wonder what theyd say.... what a stupid comment.

Everyone keeps blaming g the cops if his joker parents would have done something sooner how bout that I guarantee the parents are going to find a way to sue

​@Leal Tire Repair and Sales Leal the parents did try an do something did you even pay attention to the video they were completely blown off by the police

If it’s not terrorizing poor people, they ain’t interested 🤷‍♂

That's upsetting. You guys have the biggest say in these things yet the authorities won't take your word for it

So sorry to hear about what happened. I can imagine your pain especially when something could be done to prevent what happened. Do you think the cities are just not willing to properly fund facilities for people with mental illness?

Heartbreaking

​@@HerveyShmervy Police are shit when it comes to mental illness as a default. Involving them, most of the time, only aggravates the person experiencing an episode -- this is why so many people having breakdowns have been killed by police. Police officers rarely, if ever, understand that their presence is threatening, and that a person can respond aggressively to what they perceive as threatening. At the same time, police know that whoever they approach is not going to comply, and that lack of compliance makes for a day that most police simply do not want to have. So negligence on the part of police is a given. They don't have the training, they don't have the self-awareness, and they don't have the motivation. This is also not just a problem in the United States. This is true pretty much everywhere. Almost all interactions between police and the mentally ill end with varying degrees of violence. With regard to sectioning itself, though, this is a complicated topic and it shouldn't be treated flippantly. On this particular occasion, having him taken in for an evaluation would have prevented this tragedy, even if they didn't wind up sectioning him. However, what the retired psychiatrist isn't going to mention is how destructive sectioning actually is for most people. Sectioning does nothing to contribute to a person's well-being except to begin the process of gradually taking away their independence. Most people who experience sectioning consider it one of the worst experiences they've ever had. The person above may feel differently, but I will take the stories of hundreds of thousands of people across the world over the opinion of one psychiatrist any day of the week.

@ KAT DRAGON, please accept my deepest sympathies for what happened to you and your patient. The system is FAILING mental health issues as we see them becoming worse as our lives are becoming much more difficult to navigate. FFS, YOU are an Board Certified Psychiatrist and your clinical diagnosis should have been the ONLY opinion to determine the necessary actions.

It's not that they're not taken seriously, they're not trained for it so they don't know what is and isn't an incident of mental distress. This is why the police need to be abolished and rebuilt from the ground-up.

Check out your mental health statutes. Normally you only need 2 sound reasonable adults who know the person to get a 5150/involuntary 72 hour hold

Definitely does. I have actually had to call the police on an online friend who was in a very bad mental state and thinking about ending his life. This was in Germany, though. (We lived about 700 km apart) They came with police, a few armed officers and a dog since he told me he had a weapon, and an ambulance. They talked to him, then brought him into the hospital where he stayed a few weeks. He was mad as hell at me first, but is doing a lot better now and I am glad I did call. I didn't go via 112 (911), but called a police station in his city. After I called I didn't hear from him or anyone for quite a while, but I was able to get the info that everything is getting taken care of from an officer I checked up with. They can't give any specific information of course, but it helped calm me down as well because I knew he was going to get help now.

@@AFDM007 I'm wrong? my brother was walking around the house with a knife.. the cops brought him to a local gas station for an hour to "cool off" and brought him back to the house right after. What's it going to take?

Dont say that. Of course there will be good police officers who will care about your mental health. Police officers represent all groups of society... you have all kinds of people who are police officers... they arent a "special kind"...

One was to busy trying to get rich then to care

Yes! Mental Health Specialist need to be an active unit in every law enforcement agency across the country.

I get the manic episodes too.. meds, music, weed (legal) & keeping away from people except one or two max. Most importantly: knowing not to make any important decisions, deal with money in any way, nor drive. But it takes a lot to get the help you need in this country... unfortunately.

What a nightmare. I called the police twice to help when my teenage daughter was behaving irrationally. They were great, which in my city, is not to be assumed. They took everything I said seriously, they weren't rough with her, but they did take her (actually us, I rode with her) to the childrens hospital and they waited outside the examination room until she had been transported safely to the psychiatric location. I literally don't know how it may have ended without their professionalism and support. She was a tiny thing, but she had already left my brother with bruised ribs as he attempted to restrain her. They literally just traded blows. He had her boxed in in a hallway. She would kick him in the ribs and he would throw her against the wall, harder every time. She would hit the wall, crumple to the floor, then get up and deliver another devastating kick. He would answer by throwing her ever more violently into the wall. I finally yelled at my brother that I told him to restrain her, not hurt her. He turned to me and kind of wheezed "she's killing me." I couldn't believe it- she was actually winning the fight. That's when I called 911. She is a well adjusted 24 yr old now and it has actually become a source of family amusement, the time she beat up her uncle when she was 15. Even more impressive than the bruised ribs was the bruise that appeared on his back in the shape of her foot- like she had actually kicked THRU his chest clean to the other side. It's still a mystery- but I saw it. It was there for at least a week. We laugh about it now, but I haven't lost sight of how differently it could have turned out if the police here had responded like the ones in this story.

I read a comment previously that if you call an ambulance, or take the person to hospital, they are much more likely to get help than calling the police. The hospital will do checks and have specialists to assist, especially in child cases, the hospital has a duty to test and care for the individual, the police will just walk away if there is no crime being committed. But of course that requires the person to be willing to go. Glad you had help and are still here today

I'm bipolar 2 and have had only hypomanic episodes and even those are scary enough! People have no idea how much privilege they have when there blaming him and his parents after they clearly reached out for help, cause really this could happen to anyone... One mental snap is all it takes...

Yeah this guy’s storytelling is amazing.

What gets me is they completely brushed off an actual psychiatrist as if she didn't know what she was talking about, then go "whoopsiedoodle you should've told us sooner" when shit hit the fan literally minutes later.

There's a reason there's nationwide unrest about police lately. People feel they're inept, and constantly fail to take matters seriously when they should and taking matters that shouldn't be serious way more serious than they need to be. And it's true. I can count far too many cases where this exact scenario happened, all across the USA, and it's honestly sad.

@@WildWombats If they walked in to his room and took him away, you would be in these comments saying they're corrupt and had no right infringing on the rights of an innocent man. You're not here in earnest, you're here to spread an ignorant anti-police narrative. You're the worst kind of person.

@@WildWombats Nonsense!! If the police forced him to go somewhere, without any legal reason, they can face lawsuits. The family's friend who was a doctor, wasn't Trevor's own doctor. I literally can't blame the police knowing about the hundreds of lawsuits they faced when they acted and did what the family was asking them to do. Sorry!!

@@TonyGearSolid She wasn't his doctor. So while her input is good, they can't shield themselves from liability had he sued them for unlawful seizure. Nonsense!! If the police forced him to go somewhere, without any legal reason, they can face lawsuits. The family's friend who was a doctor, wasn't Trevor's own doctor. I literally can't blame the police knowing about the hundreds of lawsuits they faced when they acted and did what the family was asking them to do. Sorry!!

This. The parents can't even stop the very issue that is his mental health.

Absolutely agree!! So unbelievable.... those cops did nothing!

So you would rather have the gestapo breaking down your door because Karen said so?

@@ipissed a psychiatrist is not a 'karen'.

@@Cheapphilosophysale Do you have a list of jobs that "karens" can do please? How often is this list updated and can I submit some jobs?

It's like the cops thought that a kid who could make $4 million in such a short time couldn't possibly have mental illness. Wrong.

Are you actually surprised? I’m not.

If they tried their best they would have got him to a DR and seeked medical help. Not call the cops. Cops can't just arrest a kid for no reason

@@VvvnimaL you are not allowed to just... kidnap an adult and take them to a doctor

@@cadelfowl7724 police can't either

​@@VvvnimaL 🤣 police can atleast help idiot..

@@VvvnimaL well, like the video show, they could...

Pretty sure they must've cleared their conscience saying there was nothing we could do about it.

@@lean.2366yeah. But maybe a new house would help too

My understanding is it's very hard to detain ppl when they've not committed a crime. If the police felt there wasn't legally anything they could do they could either be wrong or right and if they're right then its an issue with the law rather than police not doing their job. Its frustrating. I've had ppl with psyche problems in my family and it cam feel hopeless when they won't do anything.

I am a emt ( first responder) and he does in fact meet the requirements of a 72 hour hold and would have had the help he needs and in my area the cops would be held responsible for not acting in the line of duty. All of the cops should be charged with 2 counts of manslaughter. That is what would happen in my state.

Cops once again proving they don't actually prevent anything

@@shaymorcormick8743 If we abolished all police agencies overnight, would there be the same amount of crime since they “don’t prevent anything”?

@@trevthegamedev how about we take away their qualifed immunity and replace it with maximum penalty for any crime committedl

@@shaymorcormick8743 Answer my question and I will answer yours. You said they don’t prevent any crime, if that’s true then then you must think it would be a net positive to abolish all state/local agencies.

How would you propose we change the law? The idea that police officers could arrest whomever they deemed a threat even if that person hasn't broken any laws or been evaluated as dangerous by a mental health professional is extremely dangerous.

@@jamesjameson4137 if a person themselves say they need help and the surrounding people say it, there is no random arrest, but an aimed arrest.

@@jamesjameson4137 We have things like "Baker Act" that should have been used by the police in this situation. It is one thing to randomly arrest people they don't like and another when the family and friends declare someone is a danger. The fact a licensed therapist was ignored in favor of a manic person is the insanity. There are police departments who are taking place of the therapists that we use to have responding to cases like these. They have councilors who talk to the people to evaluate. Though they can't diagnose, they can take people to mental hospitals. This is very limited to better funded cities.

@@shortandsquare Yes, using a law like the Baker act he could have been detained, however that is a Florida state law and does not apply in California, where he was. They didn't "ignore" the licensed therapist, they just didn't have an option. And yes, I agree that there are better ways to do it and better laws obviously, but given how those laws didn't apply in this situation I don't see how the police are to blame as they did everything in their legal power.

@@jamesjameson4137 The THING here is that they did have the authority to do so. The psychiatrist who was there called them to do a 5150, which is something exactly designed for this where the police are allowed to detain someone to get them to a mental health facility for evaluation if there's a concern that they're a danger to themselves or others. Considering he screamed at his psychiatrist friend and then started babbling, and they were called there by his family and a professional, AND their response was "well, evict him," they just didn't do their jobs. This is, more often than you might think, the problem. The US isn't entirely full of shitholes that refuse to make useful laws. Often times when the cops don't do something you'd think they should, or do something you think they shouldn't, the problem isn't legality. The problem is often times that they're just not doing what they're supposed to and there's no way to hold them accountable for it.

Police saw a MILLION DOLLAR CAR and knew if he can afford a car like that he can afford lawyers too

The PD needs certain criteria met to detain someone. That being said, they were given credible information that Should Have prompted them to simply ask him to stay in treatment for 72hrs.

Seriously!!!

The officers were idiots

​@rcajavus8141 not even close to a million dollars lmao it's a Mclaren 650S

To be fair - if they had to detain every lunatic on the streets, the cells would overflow within days

“He wants to harm himself and others? Pfft, we’ll see about that! Give us a call when it happens, we don’t really prevent crimes from happening; that’s a myth!”

​@@User-rka_zykx76 that really sucks. Good luck with that... Isn't there any way to get him committed to a psychiatric hospital or center or so?

Or they show up and kill the mentally ill person.

@@notDundi They were not going to detain him. They were supposed to take him to a psychiatric hospital for an evaluation. This young man was probably suffering from Schizophrenia which with the right medication can be treated and managed.