If he's been combative, removal of those items is a common method of dealing with disruptive inmates. And I"ve never seen a media outlet that wouldn't lie, misquote and omit to make law enforcement look bad.

The problem with house arrest is how to enforce it. If he won't comply, a house arrest program is as good as a restraining order- neither one protects people from getting hurt, it just means that the aggressor (which he is) has been warned.

As for "nobody told me", I can forgive it until he is diagnosed. Once the doc has told him what he has, which has happened, and he has made a willful and conscious decision to NOT take measures to contain his infection, which he has, and after being reinformed makes statements to the effect that he chooses not to take those measures even though he now knows better, he can not use the "I didn't know I was loaded" excuse. He knows he can kill people with what is in him, and he does not seem to care based on the statements attributed to him. So he is making a choice to endanger others through willful negligence, thus ignoring his responsibilities to society.

If you give up your responsibilities, you give up your rights; they are two halves of the same equation.