Woman forcibly removed from hospital lays in parking lot for 18 minutes and later dies

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12. But, but, police 'KNOW' if you are talking you -are- breathing

What the special cop knowledge did is get in the way of the fact that when a person says "I can't breath" they usually actually mean they are having difficulty with their breathing.

IMO this is one of the classic difficulties with conservative cognition. Conservative 'learns' a truthiness -talking involves breathing- and thereby the conservative has no capacity to consider that when people talk they often don't accurately convey what they mean.

That special knowledge thingy is dangerous. It's why cops 'justifiably' end up responsible for 10% of American gun homicides. And it's why a person believed by a cop to be mentally disordered is 16 times more likely to be shot by a cop than a person the cop doesn't consider mentally ill.

That conservative cognition thing is also dangerous because it places statements of 'authority' figures above common sense and subverts critical thinking. Drs/hospital admin says patient -must- leave. Conservative thinking cop accepts that as god's truth without any doubt. Consequence is woman feeling respiratory distress dies.