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Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 03:33 PM Feb 2016

anti-suicide smock







O'Kroley's bond was set at $1million on Friday after he was pushed into the courtroom in a wheelchair while wearing a suicide-prevention smock, according to WKOW. An anti-suicide smock is a tear-resistant noose-proof form of clothing that officials put detainees in if they are on suicide watch.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3434586/Man-shot-dead-worker-says-killing-woman-easy-appears-court-wearing-suicide-prevention-vest.html#ixzz3zPytJYmU
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anti-suicide smock (Original Post) Liberal_in_LA Feb 2016 OP
Not feeling a lot of sympathy for him. But for her family. MH1 Feb 2016 #1
I'm not sure why they are bothering. smirkymonkey Feb 2016 #2

MH1

(19,263 posts)
1. Not feeling a lot of sympathy for him. But for her family.
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 03:38 PM
Feb 2016

From the article it sounds like he was mentally ill, but not enough to stop him from legally buying a gun when someone pissed him off and he decided the appropriate response was to kill that person.

Sheesh, what a society we live in.

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