As we get more and more reports of the followings...will it take generations for the UMBRELLA of 'mental ill '

irma here is more on the story >>>A 24-year-old Anderson man was arrested Saturday after he went into Mercy Medical Center's emergency room with a handgun and threatened to shoot himself and others, police said.

Redding police went to the Redding hospital after getting a report at 4:35 p.m. that a suicidal man was armed with a handgun in the emergency room, Cpl. Bart Langley said in a news release.

Officers arrested Jesse M. Whitlow and recovered a loaded .22-caliber revolver from his vehicle and numerous .22-caliber bullets that were in his pants pocket, Langley said.

Whitlow told police that he used the gun to get the attention of hospital staff so he could get mental health treatment.

Police determined that Whitlow brought the handgun into the emergency room waiting area and that he eventually gave the gun to someone who was with him, who then put the gun in the vehicle, Langley said.

Whitlow was arrested on suspicion of possessing a concealed loaded weapon, being an ex-felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, possessing a concealed loaded weapon in a vehicle, and resisting arrest, Langley said.

Whitlow was being held in the Shasta County jail Sunday in lieu of $25,000 bail.

IS THIS THE 21ST CENTURY NEW IMPROVED AMERICAN DREAM / AMERICAN LIVING NIGHTMARE...

YOU BE TEH JUDGE...(SMILE)

tHANKS DAVID...WE NEED TO POST THINGS LIKE THESE, example about the soldier who killed him self in Chico. Ca. and will not have to keep saying he does not want to do yet one more tour of duty in teh middle-east...since the same thing happened in Viet Nam except they were killing not themselves but the officers sending them into battle...


because if we are not willing to report on abuses like these on main street America out side of teh Black community...we deserve to be used and abused as we are...

again David, thank you endlessly (smile)