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The stupidest fucking headline since:
What Are You Gonna Do, Stab Me? - Man Stabbed
"In a separate 911 call, the man, who has been identified only as Ramiro, tells an operator that he had been stabbed in the heart by someone without feet."
I'm sorry for the family of Anthony Lowe.  But he presented a threat of great physical violence if he wasn't stopped. >

Anyone can be a threat to the untrained public. This is why we are supposed to have the police. >

it's a really sad situation for all involved. People love to vilify the police, but i'm absolutely sure they were torn on whether to use force against a knife-wielding handicapped guy. And we forget that the instigation for this was assault with a deadly weapon on a dude who's now in a hospital bed. It's like we're failing as a society to contain & care for those who're mentally unstable & disabled. And this goes for Anthony Lowe's family too. Why did they just let him wander the streets in his wheelchair? >

Caring for the mentally ill is hard. Ask care homes for elderly with dementia or Alzheimer's. All it takes is a moment for attention to be diverted and someone can slip out and things happen. And that's with paid, trained professional staff! I feel for any family that takes on this obligation. Whether through inability to pay for care or just because they believe they can handle it. It's complicated, terrible business and you are right, our country isn't handling the issue thanks to generations of angry stigma against even mentioning such things. >

Is it just just me or is the article really weirdly written? >

Yeah, I got the same feeling.  Like some A not-so-I wrote it.  "Seeing that blood gushing out of you. Yes, I did. I thought I was a doctor right there."  Maybe a mistranscription of "goner" instead of "doctor" that nobody bothered to catch?  "Doctor" makes no sense at all. >

Heavy accent, maybe?  Or maybe the reporter recorded the interview and used something like Dragon to transcribe it?  And Dragon made mistakes? >

Quite possibly.  But still, didn't anybody read it before publication and say WTF?