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Falkenberg: We expect more from our heroes than being sued by them
By Lisa Falkenberg
March 29, 2014 | Updated: March 29, 2014 11:27pm
The wife's voice quivers. Her desperation is clear. The call to 911 is her last-ditch plea to save her husband, and maybe even her family.
For days, her husband, Kemal Yazar, a 43-year-old rug importer and loving, devoted father to their three young children in Seabrook, had been acting erratically. He refused to eat or sleep. He talked of apocalypse. He talked of President Barack Obama being the anti-Christ.
"My husband is disconnected from reality," Marlene Yazar is heard telling the operator from her mother's house in Katy, just before noon on Dec. 30, 2012. "He's just talking crazy things, like the world is going to end. And he's been like this for two or three days now."
The operator pounds her with questions and she answers them. No, he doesn't have a weapon, she says, but yes he could become violent if he thinks officers are coming to attack him.
Help is on the way, the operator says. A paramedic is first on the scene, but he quickly retreats after Kemal yells and throws a Bible at his back.
Harris County Deputy Brady Pullen arrives at 12:17 p.m., followed by another deputy. From here, accounts vary, but it's clear there's a struggle between Pullen and Kemal that leads the officers to draw Tasers and guns.
Continued: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/columnists/falkenberg/article/Falkenberg-We-expect-more-from-our-heroes-than-5360359.php?t=04a8f19e6aad6264fa
By Lisa Falkenberg
March 29, 2014 | Updated: March 29, 2014 11:27pm
The wife's voice quivers. Her desperation is clear. The call to 911 is her last-ditch plea to save her husband, and maybe even her family.
For days, her husband, Kemal Yazar, a 43-year-old rug importer and loving, devoted father to their three young children in Seabrook, had been acting erratically. He refused to eat or sleep. He talked of apocalypse. He talked of President Barack Obama being the anti-Christ.
"My husband is disconnected from reality," Marlene Yazar is heard telling the operator from her mother's house in Katy, just before noon on Dec. 30, 2012. "He's just talking crazy things, like the world is going to end. And he's been like this for two or three days now."
The operator pounds her with questions and she answers them. No, he doesn't have a weapon, she says, but yes he could become violent if he thinks officers are coming to attack him.
Help is on the way, the operator says. A paramedic is first on the scene, but he quickly retreats after Kemal yells and throws a Bible at his back.
Harris County Deputy Brady Pullen arrives at 12:17 p.m., followed by another deputy. From here, accounts vary, but it's clear there's a struggle between Pullen and Kemal that leads the officers to draw Tasers and guns.
Continued: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/columnists/falkenberg/article/Falkenberg-We-expect-more-from-our-heroes-than-5360359.php?t=04a8f19e6aad6264fa