{"id":2710,"date":"2023-12-23T15:25:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T15:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2710"},"modified":"2023-12-23T15:25:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T15:25:36","slug":"police-knew-robert-cards-mental-health-was-deteriorating-but-didnt-feel-safe-confronting-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2710","title":{"rendered":"Police Knew Robert Card&#8217;s Mental Health Was Deteriorating, But Didn&#8217;t Feel Safe Confronting Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"BJU0XKdsGbM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reamer Interview\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BJU0XKdsGbM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Police who declined to confront an Army reservist in the weeks before he\u00a0killed 18 people\u00a0in Maine\u2019s\u00a0deadliest mass shooting\u00a0feared that doing so would \u201cthrow a stick of dynamite on a pool of gas,\u201d according to video released Friday by law enforcement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The video, which was\u00a0released to the Portland Press Herald\u00a0and then sent to The Associated Press, documents a Sept. 16 call between Sagadahoc County Sheriff\u2019s Sgt. Aaron Skolfield and Army Reserve Capt. Jeremy Reamer. Skolfield was following up with Reamer about the potential threat posed by Robert Card, 40, who carried out the Oct. 25 attacks at a bowling alley and a restaurant. He was found dead two days later of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Military officials alerted police in September that Card had been hospitalized in July after exhibiting erratic behavior while training, that he still had access to weapons and that he had threatened to \u201cshoot up\u201d an Army reserve center in Saco, a city in southern Maine. The sheriff\u2019s department responded by briefly staking out the Saco facility and going to Card\u2019s home in Bowdoin for what Reamer described as a \u201cwelfare check.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cThe only thing I would ask is if you could just document it,\u201d Reamer said. \u201cJust say, \u2019He was there, he was uncooperative. But we confirmed that he was alive and breathing.\u2019 And then we can go from there. That\u2019s, from my end here, all we\u2019re really looking for.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Skolfield mentioned\u00a0Maine\u2019s yellow flag law, which can be used to remove guns from potentially dangerous people, after Reamer said Card had refused medical treatment after his hospitalization.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cSo that, obviously, is a hurdle we have to deal with. But at the same time, we don\u2019t want to throw a stick of dynamite on a pool of gas, either \u2014 make things worse,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014 Patrick Whittle and Holly Ramer in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lewiston-maine-mass-shootings-footage-96ecb7b9c02f84505592b55f779be617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Authorities knew Maine shooter was a threat but felt confronting him was unsafe, video shows<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/police-knew-robert-cards-mental-health-was-deteriorating-but-didnt-feel-safe-confronting-him\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6 \u00a0 Police who declined to confront an Army reservist in the weeks before he\u00a0killed 18 people\u00a0in Maine\u2019s\u00a0deadliest mass shooting\u00a0feared that doing so would \u201cthrow a stick of dynamite on a pool of gas,\u201d according to video released Friday by law enforcement. The video, which was\u00a0released to the Portland Press Herald\u00a0and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}