text: AT:  I am not in some contest, to "lose" or "win."  I am expressing my opinions based on my knowledge of this incident.  Do I condemn the police actions......indeed I do.  I stated at the time and continue to believe that a lack of training regarding dealing with PTSD veterans led to their handling this confrontation in precisely the wrong fashion.  Instead of de-escalating the situation, they escalated it.  You dismiss the quotation from a third-party expert on working with PTSD individuals as ""Hogwash."  
  
  I hope the police have learned from this case and will have a better understanding of PTSD issues and how to deal with them without escalating the level of confrontation.  However, the reaction of the EPD has been to defend their every action and not acknowledge any mistakes.  In today's litiguous world, that's the approach virtually everyone takes....Deny, defend.....  Ironically enough, it is an approach which also promotes lawsuits.  
  Gary Crum