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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,290 posts)
Fri May 22, 2020, 06:09 AM May 2020

Online video shows 20-year-old beating elderly nursing home patient

Source: FOX 2 Detroit

Online video shows 20-year-old beating elderly nursing home patient
Published 7 hours ago Crime and Public Safety FOX 2 Detroit

DETROIT (FOX 2) - Heartbreaking and disturbing - that is how people describe a video were told was taken inside the Westwood Nursing Center on Detroit's west side.

It shows a 20-year-old patient relentlessly punching an elderly patient. The video is making rounds on social media and we do want to warn you its graphic.

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In this hard to watch viral video- a Westwood Nursing Center patient throws punch after punch while a helpless elderly patient covers his head.

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Detroit police then arrested the 20-year-old while the elderly man went to a hospital for non-life threatening injuries. Ann Arbor police say when they called the nursing home and staff there already knew about it.

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Detroit police believe the video was taken on May 15th while nursing homes remain on lockdown because of COVID-19 concerns.

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Read more: https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/online-video-shows-20-year-old-beating-elderly-nursing-home-patient



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https://fox2detroit.com/news/online-video-shows-20-year-old-beating-elderly-nursing-home-patient


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Online video shows 20-year-old beating elderly nursing home patient (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 2020 OP
That's very disturbing. Buckeye_Democrat May 2020 #1
Video showing man beating 75-year-old until he bleeds leads to arrest mahatmakanejeeves May 2020 #2
Who taped this? marble falls May 2020 #3
I don't know. It looks as if the camera were carefully hidden behind the paper towels. mahatmakanejeeves May 2020 #4
Family members are not allowed into nursing homes right now. LisaL May 2020 #6
I hope there was good intent, but if this was a 'trophy' footage or taken because this ... marble falls May 2020 #11
Oh, it was absolutely trophy footage obamanut2012 May 2020 #17
That's my thought. Totally premeditated. marble falls May 2020 #23
Looks like the trophe footage. 3Hotdogs May 2020 #19
The abuser seems to be handling the camera at the end, as though he wants to be seen tblue37 May 2020 #21
Statement from the nursing home: dalton99a May 2020 #5
Seems bizarre that apparently physically able 20 year old LisaL May 2020 #7
Perhaps a step down care placement following a hospital stay Devil Child May 2020 #9
Well it clearly was a wrong place for a 20 year old to be placed among LisaL May 2020 #10
One of our local nursing homes has a very bad reputation because it takes DURHAM D May 2020 #13
Yeah, my first thought was that this si what it was obamanut2012 May 2020 #16
Those who beat the elderly are no better than rabid animals and deserve the same fate Devil Child May 2020 #8
Please edit to show statistics of recent increase in assaults on seniors. Maggiemayhem May 2020 #12
hope he is on charges and will never work in a nursing home again. i wont watch vid. AllaN01Bear May 2020 #14
Understandably. I couldn't take more than a few seconds. NT mahatmakanejeeves May 2020 #15
He was not an employee, but a patient n/t obamanut2012 May 2020 #18
he doesn't work there. barbtries May 2020 #20
What the actual fuck!? n/t SpankMe May 2020 #22
I hope he gets the most severe sentence possible. EllieBC May 2020 #24
Cowardly shitstain should be charged w/hate crime. radius777 May 2020 #25
WTF? jcmaine72 May 2020 #26

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,290 posts)
2. Video showing man beating 75-year-old until he bleeds leads to arrest
Fri May 22, 2020, 06:23 AM
May 2020
Video showing man beating 75-year-old until he bleeds leads to arrest

Meredith Spelbring, Detroit Free Press Published 8:49 p.m. ET May 21, 2020

Police arrested a man in connection with the attack of a 75-year-old at a Detroit nursing home Thursday.

Detroit Police arrested a 20-year-old male suspect after a video circulated social media showing several minutes of the suspect repeatedly punching the man at Westwood Rehabilitation Nursing Center on Detroit's west side.

DPD believe both the suspect and the 75-year-old are patients in the nursing home. The victim was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

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The suspect was taken to the Detroit Detention Center. An investigation into the incident is ongoing, according to police.

Meredith Spelbring is a news intern with the Detroit Free Press. Reach her at mspelbring@freepress.com or on Twitter @mere0415.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,290 posts)
4. I don't know. It looks as if the camera were carefully hidden behind the paper towels.
Fri May 22, 2020, 07:52 AM
May 2020

Someone seems to have suspected something. Family member? Someone on the staff?

marble falls

(57,010 posts)
11. I hope there was good intent, but if this was a 'trophy' footage or taken because this ...
Fri May 22, 2020, 08:21 AM
May 2020

was not the first time, I hope the kid gets what he deserves. Whatever it is.

3Hotdogs

(12,324 posts)
19. Looks like the trophe footage.
Fri May 22, 2020, 11:07 AM
May 2020

It is still during the first part. Then it shakes when he moves the victim and is repositioning it.

tblue37

(65,218 posts)
21. The abuser seems to be handling the camera at the end, as though he wants to be seen
Fri May 22, 2020, 11:54 AM
May 2020

on it, so maybe he is taping it himself.

dalton99a

(81,392 posts)
5. Statement from the nursing home:
Fri May 22, 2020, 08:02 AM
May 2020
The nursing home and its administrators are still gathering information, conducting their own investigation, and cooperating fully with the police in their own investigation. We will issue another statement once we have gathered more facts regarding the incident. One thing we want to make clear, on the record, is that this incident did not involve a nurse or any other employee of the nursing home. The individuals involved were residents. The attacker in the video was turned over to the police around 11:30 a.m. this morning by the staff at the nursing home. He is not a long-term resident of Westwood, but he was recently admitted for recovery and rehabilitation purposes on a temporary stay. Westwood has been cooperating with the police and will continue to do so. The safety, health, and well-being of our residents remains a top priority of Westwood. We will continue to monitor the situation.

Until we receive more information, we will not be able to comment further on the matter at this time.

https://www.wxyz.com/news/video-captures-brutal-nursing-home-beating-involving-20-year-old-suspect-also-living-in-the-home

LisaL

(44,972 posts)
7. Seems bizarre that apparently physically able 20 year old
Fri May 22, 2020, 08:03 AM
May 2020

was placed in a nursing home to begin with.

 

Devil Child

(2,728 posts)
9. Perhaps a step down care placement following a hospital stay
Fri May 22, 2020, 08:15 AM
May 2020

But yes, bizarre and concerning the lack of staff presence.

LisaL

(44,972 posts)
10. Well it clearly was a wrong place for a 20 year old to be placed among
Fri May 22, 2020, 08:17 AM
May 2020

elderly. I am assuming 20 year old has mental issues.

DURHAM D

(32,606 posts)
13. One of our local nursing homes has a very bad reputation because it takes
Fri May 22, 2020, 08:28 AM
May 2020

patients in for drug rehab. I have a friend who is a police officer and he says they spend a lot of time there because the rehab patients are visited by their dealers, they fight among themselves all the time and steal from each other, attack the staff, and also attack the other (older) residents. You can imagine the staff turnover.

 

Devil Child

(2,728 posts)
8. Those who beat the elderly are no better than rabid animals and deserve the same fate
Fri May 22, 2020, 08:14 AM
May 2020

This is so infuriating to see the elderly being preyed upon.

Maggiemayhem

(807 posts)
12. Please edit to show statistics of recent increase in assaults on seniors.
Fri May 22, 2020, 08:22 AM
May 2020

These assaults are happening in a variety of places. Seniors have been made targets of hate.

EllieBC

(2,990 posts)
24. I hope he gets the most severe sentence possible.
Fri May 22, 2020, 05:50 PM
May 2020

Total garbage human to beat on someone elderly. Oh and I hope the family sues.

radius777

(3,635 posts)
25. Cowardly shitstain should be charged w/hate crime.
Sat May 23, 2020, 01:35 AM
May 2020

We need much stronger laws to protect senior citizens.

When I was growing up (gen-x'er) even the gangbanger types considered it weak/cowardly to harm the elderly.

Anyone who did something like this would've probably been beaten to a pulp.

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