' You had to have contact with other humans, he claimed, in order to get sick...'

The horrible thing about this story
is not just that in the USA
(and probably most countries in the world beyond Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland)
the police can threaten anyone - anytime for any reason or no reason - with a firearm,
but that this marvellous man was simply thrown into prison
in a "one size fits all" system of injustice.

Perhaps this is how the Neanderthals died out...