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   From: jump@coons.com   
      
   Because the mentally ill have rights.   
      
   He was desperate to die — and city health workers did little to   
   stop him.   
      
   A suicidal man whom cops had talked off a rooftop Monday was   
   able to get back on a ledge two days later — and jump to his   
   death this time — thanks to a Bronx hospital’s revolving-door   
   policy with mental patients, sources told The Post.   
      
   Kareem Cooley, 25, died Wednesday at Lincoln Hospital after his   
   21-story plunge from 680 Trinton Ave. at the Adams Houses in   
   Mott Haven at 9:30 a.m.   
      
   Sources said he never should have been on the streets following   
   his first attempt.   
      
   Cops on Monday found Cooley atop a building on East 152nd   
   Street, in the same public housing complex, and spent two hours   
   trying to keep him from jumping. He was finally grabbed by   
   officers and taken to Lincoln Hospital, which is operated by the   
   city Health and Hospitals Corp.   
      
   Cooley got a psychiatric evaluation and was released.   
      
   The HHC hid behind patient privacy laws when asked why he was   
   allowed to go free without a more thorough examination.   
      
   A source at the agency said there is no mandated minimum or   
   maximum period of time required for evaluation or   
   hospitalization because each case is different.   
      
   “At HHC patient safety is paramount. This is a tragic event and   
   our hearts go out to the family. Unfortunately, due to patient   
   privacy we are unable to provide any information at this time,”   
   said HHC spokesman Ian Michaels.   
      
   Law enforcement sources said Lincoln Hospital is notorious for   
   its lax policies with emotionally disturbed patients — with some   
   released “within hours.”   
      
   “There have been cases where patients got out quicker than the   
   cop who brought him in,” a source said. “In one case, they asked   
   the person, ‘Do you want to kill yourself,’ and then when the   
   person said no, they let him go.”   
      
   Another police source said, “If the on-call doctor deems a   
   patient a nonthreat to himself or others, they will give them   
   medication and release them.”   
      
   Cooley was so determined to die Wednesday, he fought off cops   
   with a stick. “He was more prepared this time,” said a witness,   
   Jonathan Esteva, 31.   
      
   On Sunday, Cooley posted a Facebook rant proclaiming he would   
   not “die in vain.”   
      
   “This is my last video. These are my last words,” said the   
   aspiring rapper. “Family take care. Everybody take care .?.?.   
   It’s not like I got family. I’m really by ­myself, and you know   
   this will be the last time you see me.”   
      
   http://nypost.com/2015/06/24/suicidal-jumper-leaps-to-death-two-   
   days-after-first-attempt/   
       
      
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