Yes dear, we know that you believe the tooth fairy is real — psychology Professor Merushka Bisetty's inane take — on the Ma'Khia Bryant shooting

© 2021 Peter Free

 

29 April 2021

 

 

Today, some bile

 

I bring the below topic up because psychology Professor Merushka Bissetty's Vox blurb perfectly demonstrates how inexcusably foolish, insufferably inexperienced and dreamily dangerous Wokies are to the rest of us.

 

 

Remember teenager Ma'Khia Bryant's self-invited death?

 

I addressed that deadly 'incident' last week.

 

Videos of Ma'Khia's sad exit from this Earth are below. They are important to what follows:

 

 

The Hill, Columbus officials provide an update on the fatal shooting of a Black teen, YouTube (21 April 2021)

 

bodycam starts    04:24

size of knife         05:33

slow motion         06:11

 

 

Fox News,  Neighbor says officer who shot Ma'Khia Bryant 'did what he thought was best', YouTube (22 April 2021)

 

cross street view  00:34

 

 

Watch those two videos . . .

 

. . . and then consider psychology Professor Merushka Bisetty's (genuninely asinine) take — regarding what (shooting) Officer Reardon, and presumably the Columbus Police Department, could have done better:

 

 

Ma’Khia Bryant didn’t have to die. A technique called deescalation could have saved her.

 

The blame is swiftly placed on the young Black girl — or Black man, or Hispanic boy — but not the police officer who caused the fatality.

 

We do not ask ourselves if the police could have attempted any form of deescalation that didn’t involve shooting a teenager. It is worth considering whether Bryant might have still been alive today if a mental health expert — or someone else trained in nonviolent deescalation — had responded to the call.

 

My experience outlined here is not meant as clinical advice or guidance. But I do believe that psychologically informed approaches can be applied to escalated situations that so often end in aggressive police encounters.

 

Mental health experts are trained in deescalating without resorting to violence by using techniques such as building clinical rapport in any environment, compassionately engaging with individuals presenting with emotional and behavioral distress, and utilizing distractions and humor in volatile situations to mitigate aggressive blow-ups.

 

We do all of this while simultaneously evaluating danger of imminent harm to self or others.

 

© 2021 Merushka Bisetty, Ma’Khia Bryant didn’t have to die. A technique called deescalation could have saved her, Vox (29 April 2021)

 

 

Did Professor Bisetty watch . . .

 

. . . the Ma'Khia Bryant situation as it was recorded?

 

Obviously not. Why let Street Reality intrude, when one can pat oneself on the back and slam cops at the same time:

 

 

My first encounter of a teenager with a weapon was when I was a 23-year-old intern providing services at a youth foster home.

 

I received a call from a foster mother about a dispute that occurred between two teens. I could hear them yelling and cursing at each other in the background, and I told the mother to put me on speaker so that I could talk to them as I was driving over.

 

On the phone, I calmly asked the teens questions intended to distract them away from the dispute. “Did you eat today?” “Don’t you have soccer practice in a bit?” and “You’re holding a brick?! Okay, Bob the Builder, where did you find that?!”

 

As I entered the house, I concealed my badge — some people tend to distrust anyone resembling authority, and this fear often presents as anger, which is then misinterpreted as a threat. The teens were standing in the bedroom, one with a knife and the other a brick, ready to fight.

 

It was undoubtedly a scary situation, and someone could have been hurt. But I knew as a trained professional that employing nonviolent deescalation techniques was not only possible but necessary to stop an aggressive interaction from becoming violent or even fatal.

 

The goal is to provide crisis intervention services and keep kids safe — and avoid any ending up like Ma’khia Bryant, the 16-year-old Black girl who was shot by a police officer last week while wielding a knife.

 

Inside the house, I did not yell, nor did I order the teens to drop their weapons. Instead, I asked whether they wanted something to eat. Confused and suddenly distracted by me, neither responded, but when I walked over to the kitchen and started making them food, they followed me.

 

Once emotions were regulated, we talked through the initial issue and resolved it, making a plan with the foster mom and my clinical supervisor about what to do should this happen again in the future.

 

© 2021 Merushka Bisetty, Ma’Khia Bryant didn’t have to die. A technique called deescalation could have saved her, Vox (29 April 2021)

 

 

So yeah, Professor . . .

 

. . . you de-escalated a situation once — while working with quasi-cooperative people. People who were willing to listen to you on the telephone and wait for you to arrive. And who were not yet trying to stab and 'brick' each other.

 

Not only is your mentioned experience not pertinent to the instantly murderous situation that Officer Reardon was dealing with — your reference to that one situation, as if it has some bearing upon the Ma'Khia Bryant circumstances — conclusively demonstrates how observationally and analytically clueless you are:

 

 

Did you happen to notice that no one in the above videos was paying any attention at all to the arriving police officers?

 

Even when Officer Reardon shouted "Hey!" several times, just as a normal and non-threatening adult would, under similar circumstances?

 

Pretty hard to communicate, when all one has is instants and no one is listening.

 

 

Nevertheless, I am sure that someone of your truly exceptional astuteness, Professor, would have been able to calm the situation down by offering to prepare sandwiches.

 

 

You, my dear . . .

 

. . . are a perfect example of why so many Reality-stuck Americans have so little use for alleged experts.

 

 

Let me pound my point in

 

Not only does Professor Bisetty happily slam the Columbus Police Department and Officer Reardon — apparently without bothering to look at the specifics of the situation they were immediately sucked into — Vox publishes her obnoxiously inane drivel, also without bothering to look at the circumstances.

 

This is typical behavior for Wokies and, apparently, most Biden-Harris style Democrats.

 

 

No one is arguing that police de-escalation is not good

 

It is that some circumstances explode so quickly — and the people driving the 'incident' are already far beyond hearing and restraint — that De-Escalation's time has long passed.

 

 

By the way, Professor (and Vox)

 

Most cops — by choice and sometimes of survival necessity — de-escalate situations every day and sometimes several times a day.

 

 

The moral? — Wokies, they're insufferable

 

And virtually certain to die out on evolution's Planet Reality.

 

I'm just hoping that Homo sapiens does not let Homo dumbassicus take us with them.