Don't Taze my Granny!

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by Kevin

From what I'm hearing, the caller was a known entity.

Still, I think a lot has to happen before the police department's behavior is understandable.

Hey, most of my clients are known entities too

But, I agree I just hope that they are forced to fully explain their actions, preferably in front of a judge at this point.

However, while the police can take you to the ER to be evaluated, I don't know of any place in the US where the police can admit someone to a psych ward or hospital and then require someone to stay. Those decisions are made by a doctor and there are standards that have to be met to involuntarily admit someone even just for an observation period.

Unless the cops and docs have some sort of (unethical) deal where they auto-admit anyone the cops bring in, or the cops lied, she probably needed to be in the hospital and grandson should stop whining about that. (Hello, suicidal.)