Deputies kick down bathroom door, fatally shoot armed teen in midst of mental health crisis
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Deputies kick down bathroom door, fatally shoot armed teen in midst of mental health crisis

LA Times  

Video released by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department shows deputies struggling with a 17-year-old who was armed with a knife. San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department deputies on Tuesday shot and killed a 17-year-old boy authorities say was experiencing a mental health crisis — the second teen killed by the law enforcement agency in less than a month. Body cam footage released by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department shows deputies struggling with a 17-year-old who was armed with a knif. He had been taken to a hospital days before the shooting for “harming himself,” San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus said at a Wednesday news conference.

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Letters to the Editor: Why have San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies shot so many youth?
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: Why have San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies shot so many youth?

LA Times  

To the editor: I am horrified by recent reports of law enforcement shooting and killing young people in crisis. Last week, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department deputies shot and killed a 17-year-old who locked himself in his sister’s bathroom with a knife threatening suicide. Last month, deputies in the same department shot and killed 15-year-old Ryan Gainer, an autistic boy, …

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