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Doctors Afraid of Being Racist Release Psychopath - 40 Minutes Later He Left a Woman With Spinal Damage, 3 Years Later He Killed 3

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This may seem obvious to some, but there isn’t some thin, barely discernible line between compassion and naivete.

If anything, there’s a giant, fat, red demarcation between the two, and yet the oblivious left somehow can’t see it at all.

That may sound harsh, but it’s actually an understatement once you hear about the story of Valdo Calocane.

Calocane is a black British man from Nottingham — and a triple murderer.

According to The Guardian, Calocane killed two University of Nottingham students and a caretaker in June 2023. Students Barnaby Webber, 19, and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, 19, as well as caretaker Ian Coates, 65, weren’t the only victims. Calocane also reportedly “seriously injured” three other people.

A month prior to the killings, Calocane — a schizophrenic — had assaulted two of his factory co-workers.

In a separate May 2020 incident, Calocane angrily began kicking at a woman’s door. That woman was so scared, she jumped from her window, landing on her back and causing serious injury to her spine.

Perhaps most alarmingly, the door-kicking incident happened a mere 40 minutes following his release after being arrested for a separate door-kicking outburst, according to The Times.

Given Calocane’s mental issues and the obvious danger he presented to those around him, a sane world would’ve locked him up while attempting to work with him through his schizophrenia.

Alas, this isn’t a sane world, but one run by leftists in power, especially in Europe.

Per the Express, during a Nottingham inquiry, it was revealed that mental health professionals and doctors factored in the “over-representation” of young, black men in custody.

The British outlet further reported: “Mental health workers and doctors had been ‘leaning towards’ sectioning Calocane, who had been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage earlier that day, but ‘the team of professionals considered the research evidence that shows over-representation of young black males in detention,’ the inquiry heard.”

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This is where compassion veers — dangerously — into naivete.

What’s being described here is ideological paralysis, and a far cry from medical judgment. The job of mental health professionals and doctors is to assess risk, protect the public, and get dangerously unstable individuals the treatment they need.

It is not to balance detention statistics by race. When “over-representation” becomes a louder concern than overt violent behavior, something has gone profoundly wrong in the decision-making process.

No one disputes that disparities in the justice system are worth studying. But studies and seminars are one thing; a man with a documented pattern of aggression, delusions, and escalating conduct is another.

When officials hesitate to act because they’re worried about how detention numbers might look in a spreadsheet, they are no longer practicing compassion. They are gambling with other people’s lives.

And that gamble failed catastrophically in Nottingham. Three innocent people are dead, others are permanently scarred, and families are shattered. Whatever the intentions behind that racially conscious calculus, the outcome speaks for itself. Public safety cannot function if authorities are second-guessing obvious danger signals out of fear of appearing insensitive.

When ideology overrides common sense, the bill will always eventually come due — and it is almost always paid by the innocent.

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Bryan Chai has written news and sports for The Western Journal for more than five years and has produced more than 1,300 stories. He specializes in the NBA and NFL as well as politics.
Bryan Chai has written news and sports for The Western Journal for more than five years and has produced more than 1,300 stories. He specializes in the NBA and NFL as well as politics. He graduated with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. He is an avid fan of sports, video games, politics and debate.
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