It sucks that this person was struggling with the death of his partner but I don’t see how that justifies his drinking and driving or an award of millions in tax payer money.
He should be awarded zero dollars but gain access to mental health care.
Everybody suffers from losses and tragedy. That’s call life. Now we’re spoon feeding this guy because he was a cop. That’s some bullshit.
PTSD is awful. Really really awful, and I speak from personal experience. Now, I know every case of PTSD is different in terms of triggers and what happens when triggered… but from what I know of the mental disorder that I have, I find it hard to imagine being forced by the mental illness to drink and drive drunk. I can imagine drinking to avoid the results of triggers, but from my perspective, that still doesn’t absolve the choice of drunk driving.
Resisting arrest I can kinda see, depending on the exact form of how he manifests PTSD. My own version is more panic and pass out than get violent, but I know training can make you go the other way. But that still brings us back to drunk driving. I don’t think someone with PTSD is any different than any other normal person when it comes to not getting into the driver’s seat after imbibing.
That’s just not how ptsd works, please correct me if my limited perspective is flawed here.
Literally everyone else who gets emotional and misbehaves gets shot, or institutionalized, or at a bare minimum felonies that deprive them of certain rights for the rest of their lives.
Instead of giving him a tax payer funded handout this could have been an opportunity to fix a thing. Fuck that guy.
