A man carrying a machete was tased by police in downtown Concord today.
The incident occurred near Port Chicago and Pacheco St. at about 1:30 p.m.
No major injuries were reported, and the man was taken into custody.
UPDATE: The man broke a window at the downtown Wells Fargo, according to Concord Police.
21 comments
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Foolish.
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Becton’s kin?
…. ahhhh.. another drugged out weirdo… no surprise .. he’s probably out by now.
Should have used a bullet he will be back on the streets and will kill someone next.
My sentiments exactly.
Where were the Social workers and Counselors?
Shocking news.
You turn a corner and run into this guy. Broad daylight. Busy intersection.
Yea, that can happen in Concord.
Expand and reopen Napa State Hospital for the insane and fill it up.
A little history,
Ken Kesey 1962 best seller book ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ got media’s attention. They cranked out pieces about, treatment of patients in state mental hospitals. An swamp creatures being what they are, evidently couldn’t resist a knee jerk “FIX of the problem. (Giving themselves free face time and future reelection bragging rights)
DEM controlled 88th congress 1963 passed Community Mental Health Act signed into law by JFK. The CMHA forced mental health treatment down onto local level.
‘Kennedy’s vision for mental health never realized’…
“Kennedy said when he signed the bill that the legislation to build 1,500 centers would mean the population of those living in state mental hospitals — at that time more than 500,000 people — could be cut in half. In a special message to Congress earlier that year, he said the idea was to successfully and quickly treat patients in their own communities and then return them to “a useful place in society.” ”
2013 usa today https://tinyurl.com/2w6aw2ts
Did Community Mental Health Act of 1963 seed problems we see today in our communities ? ?
2016 the atlantic https://tinyurl.com/zjamdu93
2019 ‘Breakdown: California’s mental health system, explained’
cal matters https://tinyurl.com/2p8n4pyd
Newsome isn’t smart enough to do that… and… he might get negative press from his compatriots – only does things that might make him look good in the media
@ Old timer
I second that!!
UGH play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Asshat is lucky the Taser made a completed circuit or a more permanent anti-recidivism solution would have been deployed by the peace officers on scene.
Is this where I say, “Never (only) bring a machete to a taser-fight!”?
Lemme guess … the guy was born in USA and grew up in the Bay Area and was a white middle-class fella who just had a bad day and found a machete on the sidewalk and was just taking it to the local lost and found … right … no way it could have been a person from another country here with no documents … that would be impossible given the strict immigration laws in USA … and the massive budget paid by taxpayers to fund the Department of Homeland Security … Sighhhhhhhhh
@Original G
You have completely skipped over Regan’s deinstitutionalization that began in this state 1967, and was made national when he repealed Carter’s Mental Health Systems act of 1980.
Your opinion pieces conviently left out the actual legislation that closed the institutions down and frame it as a partisan position.
Danged ineffectual
+1
Couple things happened in “1967 Ronald Reagan is elected governor of California. At this point, the number of patients in state hospitals had fallen to 22,000, and the Reagan administration uses the decline as a reason to make cuts to the Department of Mental Hygiene.”
Patient decline possibly cumulative result from DEM’ 88th congress 1963 passage of Community Mental Health Act.
“1981 President Reagan repeals Carter’s legislation with the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. This pushes the responsibility of mentally ill patients back to the states. The legislation creates block grants for the states, but federal spending on mental illness declines.”
2016 KQED put out a piece in timeline format, worth a look see.
https://tinyurl.com/362z6b4u
Worth repeating, “… pushes the responsibility of mentally ill patients back to the states. The legislation creates block grants for the states, but federal spending on mental illness declines.”
Additionally DEM’ controlled CA state legislature really complicated things in 1967 by passing Lanterman–Petris–Short Act.
https://tinyurl.com/y4bt2f7f
Bill SB-1250 to modify LPSA introduced Feb. 2020, but died in committee Nov. 2020.
‘Hard truths about deinstitutionalization, then and now’ …
“The first was the de-institutionalization of the mentally ill starting in the 1960’s. The movement, started in Europe, was supported by President Kennedy and ultimately complicated by a U.S. Supreme Court opinion and civil liberty concerns over forced treatment.”
cal matters https://tinyurl.com/7dc78xam
Regan had nothing to do with the drug addicted tweakers that have made themselves mentally ill and violent from drug abuse. Under the influence of a controlled substance while charring deadly weapon and destruction of property should get you up to a year in jail on first offence. But these days more likely just probation. Liberal laws are making our cities unsafe.
Shame on Becton.
A 40 cal. projectile traveling at 1200 FPS would have permanently solved the issue and protected honest and decent citizens from possible further altercations with said perp.
Thanks, Original G for the background.
Does our county provide enough facilities and doctors for people who seek help?
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for the love of god, did this guy before he got tazed yelll
NACHO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OEEHHHHHHH
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