Comments by "" (@CYMotorsport) on "Case study of Andy B" video.

  1. Pretty despicable sentiment. You can count the number of Vietnam Purple Heart awardees put to death on one hand bc of the extent of their crime. Such a gross conflation of trauma with violence that’s well into territory of irresponsible. In the very least, the most empathetic would admit it’s just not that simple. Bc it’s not. Even what we know right this very second drawing on the creasing number of peer reviewed pieces, ptsd in and of itself would not and should not result in a stay. It has to do with the incident and the mental state at the time. Mate I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt here. There’s simply no way you did research on this case before typing this. It’s one I’ve poured over for the better part of a year. And I have plenty of blind spots on the literature. But if you truly feel this way, I encourage you to go read the dissenting words from the testifying experts from the state too. I will grant you that yes it’s possible he was in the midst of a manic or fugue state while committing the murder. However, reasonably the flip side is haunting to put it mildly. Shouting im a Vietnam combat veteran while you empty your Carbine doesn’t exactly clear him of wrong doing. Neither does approaching a downed uniform officer pleading , screaming, and slowly having to watch this man he spared plenty of times approach him after hitting him 9 separate times pause to reload, then execute him point blank. Brennan was suffering. And by most definitions he was not mentally well all the time. But mentally unwell veterans murdering police offers routine traffic stops is impossibly rare. Veterans from Vietnam did not all get the treatment they needed. And some had incidents directly related to their trauma. A jury heard the evidence including Brennan’s defense and determined at that very moment his ptsd was not gripping him to the point of him unable to cognizant control his own will. We have every single word uttered and action on video. Many experts opined on his behavior and a case was made that accepts two realities: PTSD has consequences if left untreated or progresses. A troubled man is not the same as an individual disassociating. Brennan displayed many actions and said multiple things that imo personally made that clear. If that reality is true, which courts determined so, it means you’d also graciously speak on the hundreds of thousands of veterans who came back traumatized and turned to murder. Brannan never debated his veteran status. In fact he reminded the officer as he cut him down. Now unarmed and screaming in agony, you contend brannan simply couldn’t help himself. But I think you’re wrong. The mountain of evidence and testimony points a gruesome other narrative. So i agree to disagree sir. Im not concerned with where he ended up. His anguish was indeed real and his road to recovery steep. But the deviation he took he chose to. I’m comfortable condemning cold blooded murder while recognizing the nuance of tragedy . The lines get blurred often in cases like these. Such as the other handful in the next decades served on the front lines and in tunnels. But contrast those cases. While veterans mental health has not been all successful, our ability to understand behavior in 2015 and this illness has been increasingly more successful with just as many overturned cases. He ruthlessness murdered an innocent man. His mind and spirit were here. Firmly in control and command like the tactical grip he operated his carbine with while putting an officer down sight after displaying he understood the nuance of deadly force from the officer. And in a bid to escalate the engagement, he stalked, reloaded and executed a man. His lost comrades rest peace dying in combat doing their job. If there’s a better place for him to join them, I hope he’s not sharing that honor. But I do hope the family found peace.
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