How America treats returning soldiers - UK Column News - 21st November 2022

US Army Times: “She was just doing her job”: Homeless vet loses service dog during arrest for panhandling (October 2021, Gastonia, North Carolina)
The Malinois dog that Charlotte police allowed to die, Sunshine Rae, was homeless veteran Joshua Rohrer’s government-prescribed PTSD treatment
Rohrer: “I lost my ability to believe in and function in society”
Clip: Bodycam footage of Rohrer’s callous 2021 arrest—police guffaw at Rohrer when he reminds them they are obliged by statute to let his dog come to the station with him
Update by Charlotte Observer: What happened to the officers?—Very little
Gaston Gazette: Gaston [County, North Carolina] starting veterans treatment court—pioneer concept to help traumatised soldiers out of crime
GoFundMe: Justice for Homeless Vet Joshua and Sunshine Rae—nearly at its $50,000 target
Mark Anderson commentary: These veteran abuses happen fundamentally because America now pins all its national pride on the military, having lost faith in any other strand of identity
Mark: ”It just shows you that supporting the police unconditionally is a very wrong-headed thing to do”
Recommended author (old colleague of Mark Anderson’s): William Norman Grigg, Against the Police State
Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-21st-november-2022