Mandeville parking lot knock out video - Follow Up article and PTSD claim

The viral video of the Roided up Army Captain punching out the old man was previously discussed on here. The guy has now done an interview with The Advocate and they gave him some very favorable coverage. What says the OT? Is this guys story legit or is he gaming the system to try and get out of the charges?*

LINK to WWL article with original video

*He claims to have been seeking in-patient treatment prior to the incident. If he can show evidence of that, I would think that greatly helps his case. If he can't and is caught in a lie, I would say that makes it worse than before.

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For months, Richard Suarez says he had been battling post-traumatic stress disorder that began during a nine-month combat deployment in northern Iraq and continued after he returned to Mandeville in October, where his wife and four children noticed a troubling change in the Louisiana National Guard captain.

But when Suarez woke up on Dec. 13, there was a terrifying change. "A threshold had been crossed," Suarez, who is now a patient at a mental health facility, said. "My heart was beating out of my chest, I was sweating, my hands were shaking... I just broke down, like uncontrollable weeping." But the panic attack was not the worst of what was to come that day.

Suarez said he decided to talk about what happened partly for the sake of his family, who've been subjected to a social media backlash and threats. "There's just more to this story than was being told — if not for me, for the next veteran...the 22 that commit suicide per day, I understand that now. I didn't understand before, but I do now."

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LINK

*There was a whole bunch of relevant info in the OP originally but the Admins seem to be drinking their North Korea censorship juice this morning and they came in my post and cut a bunch of shite out. That's a first. Used to be you just chose not to read something if it was too long. I guess they are paying the internet bill by the word these days.