Well I had a totally different spin on the photo... I was casting the
cop on horse as a delivery guy
given the juxtaposition of the signs with him...
I didn't even think of the cop doing anything but riding by. My glass
half full view of life i guess
ann
frank theriault wrote:
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:56 AM, eckinator <eckina...@gmail.com> wrote:
what did buddy need backup for??? go get a life...
I think those saddles don't have room for an arrested person; I'm
guessing the cop car was to cart Mohan off.
I just wonder why the officer needed to deal with him at all. Like I
said, he's a regular beggar in this neighbourhood, but I've never seen
him belligerent or nasty. He certainly seemed compliant last week.
Didn't look like he was fleeing and I saw no sign that anything on the
street had been broken into.
In fact, it looked like he was pretty strung out and maybe even
non-responsive, whether it was from substances or mental health issues
I don't know. Might have been taking him off to detox or holding him
on a mental health warrant for his own safety.
This was about 4 or 5 blocks from 1001 Queen West, which is Toronto's
largest and oldest mental health facility (used to be called The
Toronto Insane Asylum, now called the more PC Centre for Addiction and
Mental Health - CAMH) and there a many psychiatric outpatients living
in the numerous rooming houses and halfway houses in the 'hood. Maybe
Mohan's one of them and was having "an episode".
The police don't tend to hassle these poor folk from what I've seen -
I'd like to think that whatever was happening last week was for
Mohan's own protection.
Thanks for looking!
cheers,
frank
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