Gershun Freeman died inside a Memphis, Tennessee, jail in October. “I don’t know what’s going on in America where law enforcement treats mental health issues like criminal issues,” civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump said during a press conference. The idea that law enforcement should not be involved in handling people experiencing a mental health crisis has grown following similar high-profile …
By all accounts, in the early morning hours of March 23 last year, Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Rochester, New York, man, was having a psychotic break. Over the past year, the use of 911 calls to dispatch police in psychiatric emergencies is coming under long-overdue scrutiny, and momentum is building to divert these calls to mental health crisis teams. Justice …
CNN — “Spit socks” are under a spotlight after the death of Daniel Prude in March while in police custody in Rochester, New York. Spit hoods are items that some corrections officers, police officers and paramedics could place on a detainee’s head in certain circumstances to make it harder for that person to spit at, or bite, those officers or …
