Where did I mention mental health?
I did, in the post where I was talking about defunding the police and reforming or replacing it with specialist in the case of mental health crisis.
You made fun of this assertion here:
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There's seriously people who think you can remove the police and send in psychologists when an emergency arises lol.
And by the way even the guy yesterday has mental problems to some extent, should the Secret Service have sent a psychologist upon seeing an AK poking out from a bush?
And don't think this was a mental health crisis problem in this case but someone WITH a mental health problem who acted based on radicalization. We are not talking about the same kind of crisis here mate.
So again. Reforming the police and stop sending the police in case of mental health issue or crisis is vital for people like me or people in even worse situation than me.
The police is killing us, either directly or indirectly based on bad training and stereotypes. So we kindly ask that to stop.
You have a problem with a skizophrenic person > Send a real specialist
You have a problem with a violent person > Send the police (and a one from the community)
You have a problem with an homeless person > Send a person from the social services
In short, send people who will KNOW how to deal with the problem without bloodshed.
US police are not exactly good at deescalation
Yeah and not only in the US. We just had a case in France at the beginning of the month:
Imagine.. you are in the middle of a skizophrenic crisis. You armed yourself with a fork because you are scared, someone calls the police, the Police, untrained, panic and send you tear gaz, you panic, they shot you dead.