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Monday, January 06, 2020

Will the mental illness excuse for anti-Semitic violence ever stop?

Immediately following the vicious machete attack at a Hanukkah party at a rabbi’s Monsey, New York, home, the suspect’s attorney, Michael Sussman, pointed to his alleged “long history” of “mental illness and hospitalizations,” depression, and psychosis.

Sussman claimed the attacker heard a “voice talking to him about a piece of property that he understood was in that house,” and the requisite “demons” he saw and “not terribly coherent … explanations” he provided prove this, as strategically interpreted by the lawyer.

The perpetrator’s family, in a statement provided by what many families posit in service of exculpatory rhetoric of mental illness, said, "We believe the actions of which he is accused, if committed by him, tragically reflect profound mental illness for which [he] has received episodic treatment before being released."

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why should it work for anti-semitic nut cases but not even recognized for criminals that use guns to kill?

Anonymous said...

Northwest Woodsman: Final report should state: terminated with extreme prejudice. Problem solved.

Anonymous said...

People die everyday. Jew deaths are no more worthy of special rules or considerations than any other race.

TheRealRay said...

Wow a troll...

Anonymous said...

It will never end as long as we have attorneys willing to defend these actions

Anonymous said...

NO-Excuse claiming Mental this Mental That >> Bull shhht

They are still RESPONSIBLE for their actions Period !!!!