More TRUTH Comes Out On Sledge Hammer

NL- Another well done story, that brings up how wrongly this situation was handled is written by Christina Page. Here’s a bit-

"As both a therapist and a sex-worker advocate, I am disgusting by how this case was handled. What Marland actually needed was an ambulance to bring him to a hospital so that he could receive the care that he needed. A person with mental illness should be treated with respect and care, just as any other individual with an illness would be treated.

It breaks my heart to think of what Marland must have been thinking in those moments. I have struggled with horrible bouts of insomnia in the past, and after being awake for 4 days, I thought I was losing my mind. This is not a fun place to be, and I was fortunate enough to receive proper medical care. Shouldn’t everyone be able to receive the same? He told the police that he was “very tired and scared.” This doesn’t sound like a man who was out to hurt anyone, except for perhaps himself. This was a man who needed help."

Read the whole story here http://legalizetoprotect.blogspot.com/2012/04/marland-anderson-sledge-hammer-tazed-to.html

NL-Christina also mentions Monica Foster & Shelly Lubben

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The San Jose Mercury news reports:

Porn actor dies after struggle with LA police
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LOS ANGELES—A porn actor known as Sledge Hammer on screen has died several days after being shocked with a stun gun during a struggle with Los Angeles police officers.
The Los Angeles Times reports that Marland Anderson died at a hospital Friday morning.

Lt. Andrew Neiman said Anderson’s girlfriend called police last Sunday and said that he tried to hurt himself with a knife.

Neiman said he had suffered a knife injury.

Paramedics and officers who responded to the attempted suicide call handcuffed him to a gurney and took him into an ambulance.

Neiman said that once inside the ambulance, Anderson broke from the handcuff and gurney and had to be restrained by a stun gun.

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Here’s the L.A. Times version (check out link comments section at the bottom):
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/04/porn-actor-dead-after-clash-with-lapd-officers.html

Porn actor dead after clash with LAPD officers

The porn star known as Sledge Hammer died early Friday, five days after he became violent with paramedics and was stunned with a Taser and restrained by Los Angeles police officers, authorities said.

The incident began Sunday when authorities responded to a call of an attempted suicide in the Reseda area. When paramedics and officers arrived they found Marland Anderson, known as Sledge Hammer on screen, with his girlfriend. Anderson had suffered a knife injury, said Lt. Andrew Neiman.

The girlfriend told officers Anderson tried to hurt himself with the knife and she pried it away from him, Neiman said.

He was then handcuffed to a gurney by police for transportation in an ambulance. Once inside the ambulance, Neiman said, Anderson tried to stand up, but acted with such force that he broke the gurney free from a floor lock and broke the handcuff.

To restrain Anderson, an officer then used a Taser but it failed to stop the agitated actor, Neiman said. Several officers eventually managed to restrain Anderson, Neiman said. He was taken to a hospital, where he died Friday morning, Neiman said.