Outrage builds as video shows Idaho police shooting a knife-wielding autistic teenager

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8. I have an adult autistic son who when he was young he'd have meltdowns that we had to call the police

But when the police came he calmed down immediately but we showed him this last night to remind him.

So sad seeing this. I was at a balloon interactive exhibit yesterday with my son and I saw a woman standing over a young man who was autistic who lost his toy in a ball pit at this exhibit, She couldn’t leave him to find the toy and I talked with her and him and said Moms going to get you another toy. I would have gone into that ball pit to find that toy but I had to keep an eye on my own son. I hope she was able to get him to move on. I’ve been there myself at times.

But these police all need to be fired for over reacting because there are a lot of autistic kids out there who are adults !