> People with severe mental illnesses still have Constitutional rights, including one not to get their head bashed in.

Yes, I wasn't trying to imply that. But according to court records he got hurt because he was being combative during the execution of an arrest warrant.

> Running a Tor exit node is also not a crime

Probably correct, and the original headline seemed to try to imply that it was in fact what they got in trouble for (it has since been changed), but there's way more to this story than OP lets on... by a mile.