Black woman held in mental hospital because police didn't believe BMW was hers - woman is suing New York City after she claims she was forced to spend eight days in a mental hospital and given a $13,000 (£8,500) bill because a police officer didn’t believe the BMW she was driving was hers.

You really do live in a 'just world' fantasy don't you? You just stated 'if someone is calm and collected', as if that is a perfectly reasonable thing to expect! (after being arrested and dragged to a forced drugging nightmare psych facility, which is a superhuman thing to do, be calm and collected in the face of such terror), you also said 'and not a threat to themselves or others' as if strangers in ERs who are acting as government agents, who don't try evidence, test facts, who DO admit hearsay, have made some kind of magical power to make a so-called 'factual' determination of 'threat to self or others'. It is endlessly amazing how comfortable people like you are with the government having 'medical' agents who will quickly label someone a 'threat' unworthy of rights, you're comfortable with this, I'm sure, until it is your rights being treated like such an easily revocable thing. So long as it is happening to someone else, your 'just world' bubble won't be broken. Basically what you're saying is, that if you're 'calm and collected' after being terrorized with potential forced psychiatry, if you don't have any beliefs others label bizarre, and if you're 'not a threat' (they apparently in your mind have accurate tools to predict the future of someone's behavior just be talking to them when they are terrorized and terrified), then all is just in the world. The entire idea that anyone believes the government should be arbitrarily, extra-judicially declaring citizens a 'threat' behind closed doors in an ER somewhere, believes this abhorrent lack of due process is somehow an exercise in a 'fact' being determined, is truly terrifying and saddens me for the future of humanity. It's not almost, it is exactly like, you live in a version of the world where a Nero-like quack gives the thumbs up or thumbs down, to a harried, terrified detainee, after a brief forced interrogation you laughably call an 'eval', declaring them a 'threat' or 'not a threat', and you actually think this is an acceptable government activity, an acceptable way to treat citizens' human and civil rights. You're a reminder to me that we truly do live in an age of soulless bureaucrats.

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