Kelly Thomas. Ricky Ard. Bradley King. Jason Harrison. Keith Vidal. Thomas Orchard. Jonathan Salcido; I've heard and seen protesters and activists for Black Lives Matter, Muslim Lives Matter, Native Lives Matter, Immigrant Lives Matter, but do schizophrenics lives matter to the people or communities who is not personally affected by the disease?
Kelly Thomas:
Kelly Thomas, May 2002
Kelly Thomas was born April 5, 1974, to Ron Thomas, a former Orange County Sheriff's deputy, and Cathy Thomas. Kelly, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, was a "fixture" among Fullerton's homeless population. Between 1990 and 2011, Thomas had 92 encounters with the police. These encounters are common among the mentally ill, his ranged from minor infractions such as trespassing to a guilty plea in an assault with a deadly weapon case sixteen years prior.
On July 5, 2011, at about 8:30 PM, officers of the Fullerton Police Department responded to a call from the management of the Slidebar that someone was vandalizing cars near the Fullerton Transportation Centre. While investigating, they encountered the shirtless and disheveled Thomas and attempted to search him. According to statements given by the officers, Thomas was uncooperative and resisted when they attempted to search him, so backup was called. "Now you see my fists?" Fullerton police officer Manuel Ramos asked Thomas while slipping on a pair of latex gloves. "Yeah, what about them?" Thomas responded. "They are getting ready to f*** you up," said Ramos, to which Thomas replied, "Start punching, dude".
Kelly Thomas clinging to life after lethal beating by 6 officers
A video of the event surfaced. Thomas can be seen being generally uncooperative with the officers, but sitting and being non-aggressive. After the officers grab Thomas to arrest him for stolen mail they apparently found, Thomas can be heard repeatedly screaming in pain while officers are heard repeatedly asking him to place his arms behind his back. He audibly responds "Okay, I'm sorry!" and "I'm trying!" while the officers stretch his arm back. The police officers claim that, unable to get Thomas to comply with the requests, they used a taser on him (up to five times according to a witness statement, and the video footage), and in the video Thomas can be heard screaming for his father.
Here are some of his lasts words:
Dad, help me!...They're killing me!
said 31 times
Sir, please!...Okay!...Okay!
said 30 times
Help me!...Help me G-d!
said 26 times
I'm sorry!
said 15 times
Six officers were involved in subduing Thomas, who was unarmed and had a history of mental illness. Thomas was initially taken to St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton but was transferred immediately to the UC Irvine Medical Center with severe injuries to his head, face, and neck.
Manny Ramos displaying his "injury"
One of the paramedics testified that he was first instructed to attend to a police officer's minor injury and then noticed Thomas lying unconscious in a pool of blood.
Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackaukas gave a detailed account of the events during a press conference on September 21, 2011. Using digital audio recording devices carried by the officers, surveillance video from a pole camera at the Fullerton Transportation Center, and other evidence, Rackauckas provided evidence that Thomas did comply with orders from Ramos, who had put on latex gloves and asked Thomas "Now see my fists? They are getting ready to fuck you up." Rackauckas went on to describe how Thomas begged for his life, before being struck repeatedly by the officers.
On September 21, 2011, Orange County district attorney Tony Rackaukas held a press conference to announce the results of the investigation. Rackaukas announced that according to the Orange County coroner, the cause of death was "asphyxia caused by mechanical chest compression with blunt cranial-facial injuries sustained during physical altercation with law enforcement." Rackaukas said Thomas died because of the force of the officers on his chest, which made it impossible for him to breathe, causing Thomas to become unconscious. He then became comatose, and died when taken off life support five days later.
According to Rackaukas, the coroner stated that the injuries to Thomas' face and head contributed to his death. Also contributing to his death were brain injuries, facial and rib fractures, and the extensive bruising and abrasions he suffered during the beating, which left him lying in a "growing pool of blood", Rackaukas said. The toxicology report shows that Thomas had no illicit drugs or alcohol in his system. Thomas was severely bleeding and struggled and pleaded, "I can't breathe," "Dad, help me." The DA stated that the officers never reduced their level of force during the nearly 10-minute assault.
A preliminary hearing to determine if there is sufficient evidence for a trial was held on May 9, 2012. The court ordered that two of the police officers involved will stand trial. Manuel Ramos was charged with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, and Jay Cicinelli was charged with involuntary manslaughter and felony use of excessive force. Both officers pleaded not guilty at the second arraignment on July 13, 2012. Attempts by the defendants to dismiss the charges were denied. In September 2012, Officer Joseph Wolfe was indicted on charges of involuntary manslaughter and use of excessive force.
Jay Cicinelli and Manuel Ramos, two of Kelly Thomas' killers
On May 16, 2012, press reports indicated that the Fullerton City Council had agreed to pay Thomas' mother one million dollars as a settlement of her civil complaints against the city. This did not impact the ongoing civil actions by Thomas' father or the criminal trial. Trials for Cicinelli and Ramos were scheduled to begin October 18, 2013, but actually began on December 2, 2013. Proceedings concluded on January 13, 2014 with both Ramos and Cicinelli being found not guilty of any criminal charges. After the verdicts, the District Attorney's office announced that it would not proceed with Wolfe's trial.
The protests picked up again after the acquittals. On January 18, 2014, 14 people were arrested for protesting after ignoring a dispersal order from the police.
On January 23, 2017, federal prosecutors announced that they would not bring charges against former officers Ramos, Cicinelli and Wolfe for violating Thomas' civil rights.
Ricky Ard:
Text from the following article:
Man killed by police had schizophrenic episode: Coroner
Zach Evans, Courier & Press
"....An Evansville police officer shot and killed Ard Tuesday morning outside the Winfield K. Denton Federal Building in a situation that escalated in an instant. Upset with the government, Ard busted out windows at the federal building with a wooden bat. After an officer tried to use a Taser on Ard, Ard swung the bat at the officer and moved toward him. Within seconds the officer fired several shots into Ard's body, killing him. He was 55.
Ard was suffering from a schizophrenic episode when he came Downtown that day, Vanderburgh County Coroner Steve Lockyear said. Ard was fixated on the unsolved murder of Ray Ryan, Lockyear said. Ryan, an Evansville businessman, was assassinated by a car bomb in 1977. Bullets may have killed Ard, but Lockyear considers schizophrenia one of the official causes of his death.
“This wasn’t a suicide by cop,” he said. The Evansville Police Department's preliminary investigation into the shooting indicates the officer who shot and killed Ard was justified. Police released body camera and surveillance footage of the shooting to the public Wednesday.
Officer seconds away from killing mentally ill Ricky Ard
..."The Ard family statement in full:
The Ard family would like to express our deepest gratitude to the community for the heartfelt outpouring of sympathy. We are very much appreciative of all the expressions of support. As anyone can imagine, losing a loved one unexpectedly is incredibly difficult, and even more so under the circumstances that we lost our brother, son, uncle and friend, Ricky.
Ricky had a long, documented history of mental illness. As we grieve and continue to process the events of Ricky’s death, we cannot help but to consider how his mental illness impacted the events as they unfolded. We know that to the officers and bystanders Ricky was seemingly violent, but to us he was in dire need of medical attention. Regrettably, we cannot change the events and the outcome of what transpired on Tuesday. Ricky had never (been) charged with a crime of violence, which adds to our grief.
We as a family sought help for Ricky, but were restricted from doing so due to the current mental health laws for adults. In conclusion, we pray that this tragic situation will encourage everyone to get educated on mental health. Learn how to identify the signs and symptoms; lean how to provide care to those who need it. We can only hope other Evansville citizens, and citizens nationwide, will have access to prompt continuous and comprehensive mental health treatment throughout their lifetime.
We will miss his smile, his laughter, and his spirit. Please continue to pray for the Ard family and all those who loved Ricky. Please consider our family during this time and respect our privacy as we continue to grieve.
With deep sadness, the Ard family"
Bradley King:
Bradley King was a 29 year old schizophrenic man from Indiana who called the police on himself to help him with a mental episode, he was fatally shot by Hendrix County police at the scene.
Bradley King (right), with brothers Brandon (left) and Trevor.
Hendricks County Sheriff's Capt. Amanda Goings said dispatchers received two calls, believed to be from the same person, from a residence in the 1200 block of Sheffield Drive in Avon. In the first call, at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, King called and asked to speak to an officer before telling dispatchers to disregard the call. The second, at 2:24 p.m., came in as an incomplete call. When dispatchers called back, King said the call was an accident. Both times, Goings said, officers were sent to the home to check on the caller. The first time, officers couldn't make contact with anyone inside. The second time, two reserve deputies found King in the backyard.
They asked him to identify himself, to take his hands out of his pockets. When he did, he revealed a kitchen knife, Goings said. When told to drop the knife, King "rapidly approached" one of the officers, Goings said. That officer fired a single shot, hitting King in the torso. He was pronounced dead at the scene. King's family says he never would have lunged at an officer. He was sweet, non-confrontational, kind. King's father, Matt King, said his son was diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was 20, but he had never been a violent person. "Brad was the most kindhearted personality you ever met in your life," Matt King said. "He put a smile on everyone’s face." Because of the $900 cost, not every reserve deputy is issued a Taser but Goings said the officer involved was carrying one.
Quotes from Sheila Robertson, Bradley's aunt:
"All he wanted was peace in his mind. That’s all he wanted."
"He struggled so bad. He fought, though, every day."
"He was alone, and he was already afraid. The people that he called to ask them for help took him out of this world"
"Does it cost money (to educate police on how to deal with the mentally ill)? Of course it costs money. Is a life worth saving?"
Jason Harrison:
Jason Harrison
Jason Harrison was a schizophrenic, bipolar man who was shot and killed by two Dallas police officers in his own doorway, the entire incident was recorded on the bodycam of one of the officers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aALArJP4rw
It begins with Jason Harrison's mother, Shirley Marshall Harrison, answering the door for police and nonchalantly walking out the door. "Oh, he's just off the chain," she says in the video. "You can hear him, talking about chopping up people." An officer asks who she's talking about, and she replies, "My son, bipolar, schizo," as Jason Harrison appears you can see him calmly walking behind her. Shirley had earlier requested assistance getting her son to the hospital, a fairly routine occurrence, according to the lawsuit.
"The police had been to the Harrison home a hundred times or more without incident, as it was well-known in the home and community that Jason was nonviolent," according to the wrongful death suit Harrison's family later filed.
Though Rogers and Hutchins had Tasers and batons, they quickly drew their firearms when Jason Harrison "had made no threat against either officer," according to the lawsuit. Whether that last allegation is true is unclear, judging from the video, because the body camera pans away from Jason Harrison for 4 seconds before the officers open fire. Two shots hit Jason Harrison in the chest, another goes through his forearm and into his chest and the two more bullets land in his back, the medical examiner's autopsy report said.
The police incident report says Rogers and Hutchins responded to a "major disturbance" involving a mentally ill person. Jason Harrison not only posed a threat, he "lunged at one officer," it said. Rogers and Hutchins, who both had about six years of experience at the time of the shooting, according to the incident report, gave similar accounts in their June affidavits. The pair received a call that a bipolar, schizophrenic man was off his medications, Rogers wrote. His mother said he was being argumentative and needed to go to Parkland Memorial Hospital, he wrote. Rogers arrived wearing a department-issue body camera that was not working, according to the affidavit.
Jason Harrison dying on the ground after shooting
Excerpt from John Roger's affidavit:
"I told the suspect to put down the screwdriver so we could talk, but he refused to comply....the suspect stepped from the doorway and suddenly jabbed the screwdriver at my partner and then seemed to lock onto me and began to move toward me jabbing the screwdriver at me in fast motions....It was at that time that I realized that I was going to die if I didn't stop the threat in front of me and I pulled my service weapon and fired two times in self-defense"
Hutchins writes that he was wearing a "personally owned" body camera, said in his affidavit that he took Shirley Marshall Harrison's assertion that her son was "off the chain" to mean that he was "acting hostile." Hutchins also felt Shirley Marshall Harrison walked past him and Rogers "as if to put us between herself and her son." Hutchins' story matches Rogers' account -- which is backed up by the video -- that Jason Harrison was told repeatedly to drop the screwdriver. But Hutchins makes no mention of Jason Harrison "jabbing" the screwdriver at both officers.
He writes instead that Jason Harrison "advanced toward Officer Rogers while raising the screwdriver....I was in fear for Officer Rogers' life and I was forced to draw my service weapon and fire it at the suspect until he was no longer a threat," Hutchins wrote. The Dallas County grand jury decided Thursday that no charges were warranted against John Rogers, 40, and Andrew Hutchins, however the officers still faced a civil case brought by Harrison’s family, in which sued them and the city in federal court.
Hutchins and Roberts both remain on active duty.
Keith Vidal:
Keith Vidal was an 18 year old schizophrenic teenager from North Carolina who was shot and killed in his home by officer Byron Vassey after his mother called the police for assistance.
Keith's family called the police on the afternoon of January 5th, 2014 to help subdue the 90-pound teen who was sweeping the floor, holding a screw driver and at some point he threatened to fight his mother during a schizophrenic episode. According to the 911 call made by Vidal's stepfather "He's not doing very good. You've got to get him someplace...He wants to fight his mother... She's scared to death of him right now." The caller said that Vidal "won't take his medication" and that his family has had "to put him in before, (and) he's getting real bad again...He's just, he's not right." At 12:31 p.m., according to records, Mark Wilsey called 911. “We wanted him to put the screwdriver down because he does have schizophrenia and we didn’t know if he was gonna hurt himself,” Wilsey told the reporters.
The first officers arrived on the scene at 12:34. The first two officers responded to the family’s home and restrained Vidal, then a third officer arrived and soon thereafter shot Vidal, according to Mark Wilsey, Vidal’s step-father. As the first two officers were restraining Vidal, the third officer walked into the family’s house and reportedly said “I don’t have time for this. Tase him. Let’s get him out of here." At that point, one of the officers used a stun gun on Vidal. The young man hit the ground and “this guy shot him,” Wilsey said. When Wilsey asked why the officer had shot the teen, he said the officer replied, “Well, I’m protecting my officers.” “He reached right up, shot this kid point-blank, with all intent to kill,” Wilsey said.
“Keith was not threatening anybody, Keith did not want any part of it. He was having a bad day,” Wilsey said. “He was flat out murdered, there was no need for deadly force. No reason.” Vidal was taken to a local hospital where he was declared dead. “Why, why did this child have to die?” said Mary Wilsey, Vidal’s mother, holding a photo of the teen hugging someone in a large, furry Gumby costume at Byron Vassey's press conference after Keith's death. . “We want justice for my son’s death. This officer who shot my son needs to be behind bars, he needs to die the way my son died.” Byron Vassey was charged and indicted with voluntary manslaughter charges and was found not guilty.
Thomas Orchard:
Thomas Orchard's mugshot
taken just over an hour
before his death
Thomas Orchard was a caretaker at St Thomas Church in Exeter, England who was killed after being arrested on the morning of 3 October on suspicion of a public order offence. Just over an hour after the arrest, Thomas was taken by ambulance to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital as he was "unresponsive in his cell". The court heard that he was experiencing a mental health crisis when he was arrested, had not taken his medication for seven days and told a mental health professional he believed he was a vampire and should stay inside during the day. Thomas was dealt with by seven police officers and fully mechanically restrained - with handcuffs and straps around his legs - before being placed in a small police van. Bristol Crown Court heard that he should not have been placed in the van as it was too small for non-compliant detainees. He was driven to the 20-cell Heavitree Road custody unit, where Sgt. Jan Kingshott, and civilian detention officers Simon Tansley, and Michael Marsden were on duty.
None of the defendants claimed to recognize that Thomas was mentally ill and did not check how long he had been physically restrained for - a total of 18 minutes by that point. Thomas appeared to attempt to bite an officer as he was taken through the door into the holding area of the custody suite. He was held down while restrained at three points and controlled by three officers, with four others nearby. Tansley called for an emergency restraint belt (ERB) and wrapped it around Mr Orchard's face. Devon and Cornwall Police had authorized the US-made restraint device for use across the face to prevent spitting or biting. A risk assessment of the belt by the force was said not identify or refer to any risks to detainees when it was used around the head.
Thomas being "carried" to his cell
Thomas, who was 5ft 7in, was then "carried" to cell M6 by four officers. He was placed chest-down on a blue mattress in the cell and searched while handcuffed and in restraints, with the ERB around his face. The court heard that he shouted “Let go” or “Get off” a total of seven times from 11.24am to 11.26am, struggling violently a minute later. He was then freed from the restraints and left alone in the locked cell at 11.29am. CCTV footage showed him lying motionless on the mattress for 12 minutes before officers re-entered the cell at 11.41am. By that time, Mr Orchard was not breathing and had suffered a cardiac arrest. He died in hospital on October 10. A pathologist found he died from severe hypoxic-ischemic brain damage, caused by a prolonged cardio-respiratory arrest “following a violent struggle and period of physical restraint”.
The ERB was distributed in the UK by Pro-Tect Systems Limited, the company that had its Taser licence revoked in 2010 after it was found to have supplied non-approved X-12 Tasers. These were used during the stand-off with gunman Raoul Moat in Northumberland in July 2010. A training manual for the ERB advised that it could be used to prevent a detainee from spitting or biting, claiming that this was a common scenario inside police vehicles. The manual instructs those using the device about the head to do so lightly, without pressure. After a manslaughter trial against 3 of the 7 perpetrators, they were found not guilty of killing Thomas Orchard. A number of jurors wept as the verdicts of not guilty were delivered.
Thomas suffocating on the floor
Speaking outside court, Mr Orchard's parents, Ken and Alison Orchard, said:
“Today we join a growing group of people who have lost loved ones in police custody and have found no sense of justice."
“Thomas cannot be brought back but we want his needless death to bring about change."
“The change we want most is in the attitude of the police, particularly towards those with mental health vulnerabilities."
“The pain for the past four-and-a-half years has diminished us and today is a setback but, on behalf of those vulnerable people and in memory of our Tom, our fight for truth and transparency continues.”
Jonathan Salcido:
Johnathan's obituary photo
Jonathan Salcido was a 27-year old who died at a Whittier, California hospital on May 4, 2017, shortly after the encounter with police that ended with officers wrestling him to the sidewalk. The attending emergency room physician noted “asphyxia” as the cause or contributing cause of death, along with head trauma and “traumatic” arrest, according to the lawsuit filed by his family in Los Angeles federal court. Around his 18th birthday, Johnathan was diagnosed with mental illness that was variously characterized as bipolar disorder, paranoid schizophrenia, or schizoaffective disorder, according to the family. Over the years, he’d been hospitalized on "numerous occasions" on both a voluntary and involuntary basis. His mother said even the Whittier police were aware of her son’s condition. The day of his death, her son was scheduled to see his psychiatrist to treat the mental illness that he had been living with.
According to his family, his behavior had become increasingly erratic in the days prior to May 4 and his parents concluded he needed to be hospitalized again for an adjustment to his medication. Salcido initially "reacted well" to this information but became agitated the morning of the appointment. His mother, Jasmin Salcido, said when she called police for help once again, he said he was afraid of them and ran out the door. His mother went after him, telling a 911 operator where they were as she followed him down the street. Police arrived as Salcido was trying to climb over a fence. They "descended on him … pinning him face down" on the concrete instead of waiting for paramedics or "calmly attempting to subdue him," according to the family's claim.
Jonathan being crushed
by the weight of an officer
Her son was "clearly panicked" as she heard him "scream out in terror" – his legs "frantically thrashing" back and forth under the weight of officers. "Suddenly, Jonathan stopped moving. The police got off of Jonathan … one officer stated, 'he’s not breathing,'" it says. Instead of helping transport him to the doctor’s office, numerous responding officers wrestled him to the ground, handcuffed him, piled on top of him and “smothered him to death before his mother’s eyes,” said Dan Stormer, a Los Angeles civil rights attorney who is representing the family.
He goes on to say:
"Justice demands that the Whittier Police Department train its officers how to de-escalate encounters with people with mental illness...
Justice demands that the officers who took Jonathan’s life and the department that failed his family be prosecuted...
Justice also demands reform before the Whittier police take another life.”
He also called on the district attorney to prosecute the police officers involved in the incident to be prosecuted for "their cruel, excessive and unnecessary use of force.”
As a person with schizophrenia, one of me and my family largest fears is me being killed by the police. We've discussed that there is absolutely no reason for the police to ever be called on me unless it's a life-or-death situation, because all of us know that something as easy as a transport to the doctor can quickly turn into a murder. It's evident by the few examples I've listed here, that you don't even have to be violent or in psychosis to be killed, you don't have to impose any threat or danger to an officer to be murdered. I've had an officers gun pointed at me multiple times, I've been held on false charges multiple times, I've been handcuffed while I was having a seizure which left me with 2-inch black bruises around my wrists, I've had my clothes attempted to be taken off by a Ranger in a National Park, I've been told you literally walk out of town because I was scaring the citizens, I've been through this and G-d has blessed me with not being killed yet.
When anyone goes onto Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, any of those types of social media and puts in # Black Lives Matter, they will see it has thousands upon thousands of posts with tons of people mentioning it, and Black Lives Matter isn't just a hashtag. It is an actual organization where people hold meetings, they have "bases", plan and organize things and do things like walks and protests. In my opinion, they are not the best example and I personally wouldn't want an organization like that leading a Schizophrenic/Mentally Ill Lives Matter movement because BLM likes to pick and choose who's black lives matter enough to care about. Certain black lives matter to them and certain ones don't, and I would like it where all schizophrenics and mentally ill are cared about, whether or not they were killed by the police or killed by other people.
Native Lives Matter, Muslim Lives Matter, pretty much any other group of people with an attribute about them that isn't a disability, has some sort of movement saying how it's okay to be them. The difference for them is, it's just who they are. You just are black, you just are Muslim, you just are LGBT, you are just born that way or choose to identify as them. Schizophrenia is a disease, not a natural trait or attribute, and it is not something that people should try to romanticize or diminish the severity of. And yet, even with epidemic numbers of mentally ill being murdered by police, I have not found one # Schizophrenic Lives Matter, on any platform, anywhere.
I believe a large part of the problem of schizophrenics not being paid attention to and having great risk of being savagely murdered, is because a lot of media portrays us as extremely violent. In both journalistic and entertainment media, it doesn't really matter if a schizophrenic gets killed, because a schizophrenic is equal to a psychopath in a lot of people's minds. A schizophrenic is just a normal person with a disease, we have love, we have fear, we are empathetic people, not psychopaths. Would it be okay to go around killing cancer patients? Just because they have a disease and say they deserved it because the symptoms of cancer made them act differently?
Schizophrenics are not violent serial killers who are going to come and sneak into your house and steal your children at night. Schizophrenics have a disease and we need help, we do not to be murdered. No matter how many of us get beaten to death, shot or suffocated, schizophrenia isn't going to go away. It is not a viral plague that won't come back just because you kill the sick. Until a cure is found, it will always be here. Instead of ignoring people or killing them, it's time to notice us and figure out how to help us better. Urge your state representatives to advocate for the (re)opening of humane long-term psychiatric hospitals instead of forcing people who need hospitalization or long-term treatment into jails, where they may be unknowingly committing more offenses inside, forcing them to live and die inside prison.
Instead of forcing the police to be the ones who have to interact with these sick people, tell them to advocate to create a task force team that is specifically trained and activated when there is a problem with the mentally ill (ie. psychosis, transportation to treatment, suicide attempts, etc.). The police are not trained to and were never meant to interact with sick people, they are meant to interact with criminals. We need another system to take care of the mentally ill, one that knows how to properly treat them and assist in what needs to be done to resolve whatever the situation is. A system in which calling the police is the last resort, but when police are necessary, train the police how to deal with these people better.
Of course there will always be psychopathic police officers who are going to kill people no matter what they look or act like, but I believe that if people put in half the effort, protests walks, organization that they put into BLM or all these people that claim to be for the advocacy of stopping police brutality but completely ignore this huge section of people that a lot of the time can't even speak for themselves, and may not have anyone to speak for them, will just open their eyes and their hearts to accept the idea of advocating for these people as well, instead of a select group of people. If there could be some sort of movement that could be made towards the systematic reform of the mental health system there would be a lot less violence very quickly, and it's really not that huge to do. It is a very simple solution, it just needs to be implemented.
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http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/police-tase-shoot-and-kill-90-poundpolice
https://www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/justice/north-carolina-teen-killed/index.html
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