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Officers often mentally unstable, experts say
Oh, sorry, we missed part of that. Let's try again:Officers often lack the training to approach the mentally unstable, experts say
Better, but still a stirring condemnation of the police & just about anything else that moves.Some societies have stopped burning the disturbed at the stake because they're "demon-possessed". Progress of a sort.Nationwide, police have shot and killed 124 people this year who, like Page, were in the throes of mental or emotional crisis, according to a Washington Post analysis. The dead account for a quarter of the 462 people shot to death by police in the first six months of 2015.
The vast majority were armed, but in most cases, the police officers who shot them were not responding to reports of a crime. More often, the police officers were called by relatives, neighbors or other bystanders worried that a mentally fragile person was behaving erratically, reports show. More than 50 people were explicitly suicidal.
More than half the killings involved police agencies that have not provided their officers with state-of-the-art training to deal with the mentally ill. And in many cases, officers responded with tactics that quickly made a volatile situation even more dangerous.
ADDED MOMENTS AFTER PUBLICATION:
Batts says “we’re not done! If you threw rocks and bricks at police, wr’re comjng for you next” #BaltimoreRiot
— Christie Ileto WJZ (@ChristieWJZ) July 1, 2015
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