re: Off-duty cop shot and killed a non-verbal, intellectually disabled man in a Cali Costco

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If the argument is “sorry, my kid has autism and can be aggressive”, and was escalated by the cop saying “you need to control your fricking son”, then this is murder, in my opinion.

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Haven’t seen anything new on this, but just because someone has autism or another mental disability does not mean they are otherwise a nice person. People with mental disabilities have personalities, flaws, strengths, etc. Their disability does not encompass their entire being. There’s people with autism that are very smart, given one of the basic traits of the disorder is generally poor social ability and conflict de escalation.

There are some very nice people with autism. There are also aholes with autism. I’ve been around plenty of people with mental disabilities that the only reason they weren’t in jail was because of their IQ but they were otherwise horrible people. That had nothing to do with their IQ or disability.

Honestly without more to the story, simply stating an off duty cop shopping with his family shot someone with Autism is nothing but click bait. It’s a horrible headline meant to draw attention.