Having mental health issues should not increase your chances of dying a violent death at the hands of police. But the statistics show that it does.
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Neither did Ezell Ford, Tanesha Anderson, Natasha McKenna, or countless others. #BlackLivesMatter
Over half of people killed by police suffer from mental illness. Yet most police officers receive NO mental health training. We’ve highlighted alternatives that show how people with mental illness can be better helped during police encounters (and also during and after incarceration).
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