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'We Failed' in Shooting of Mentally Ill Woman: NYPD Chief
A straitjacket! What year is it? I hope she's just sharing something she heard from an unreliable source.
This article says she was armed with a bat and a pair of scissors. The officer convinced her to drop the scissors but then she charged at the officer and he shot her twice in the chest.
NYPD kills 66-year-old schizophrenic black woman
I'm not sure how scary a 66-year-old woman with a baseball bat could be. Had she been physical with officers on previous occasions? I wonder about the difference in their sizes.
Terrence Cunningham is also mentioned in the article because on Monday he said this:
The NYPD sergeant who shot and killed an emotionally disturbed 66-year-old woman at her apartment in the Bronx Tuesday after she charged him with a bat has been placed on modified duty pending an investigation.
Police Commissioner James O'Neill said after a breakfast in the city Wednesday that it appeared some NYPD protocol as it relates to emotionally disturbed individuals was not followed in the case of Deborah Danner.
"What is clear in this one instance, we failed. I want to know why it happened," O'Neill said. "We do have policies and procedures for handling emotionally disturbed people and it looks like some of those procedures weren't followed.
Officials said there had been past 911 reports regarding Danner, who had schizophrenia. One woman who lives in the building said that recently "they brought her out in a straitjacket, she was hollering and screaming."
A straitjacket! What year is it? I hope she's just sharing something she heard from an unreliable source.
This article says she was armed with a bat and a pair of scissors. The officer convinced her to drop the scissors but then she charged at the officer and he shot her twice in the chest.
NYPD kills 66-year-old schizophrenic black woman
The NYPD admitted the excessive use of force in a statement, saying that the incident would undergo a full investigation since the officer
(Sergeant Hugh Barry) could subdue Danner by simply using his Taser.
“The sergeant was armed with a Taser. It was not deployed, and the reason it was not deployed will be part of the investigation and review,” said NYPD Assistant Chief Larry Nikunen.
I'm not sure how scary a 66-year-old woman with a baseball bat could be. Had she been physical with officers on previous occasions? I wonder about the difference in their sizes.
Terrence Cunningham is also mentioned in the article because on Monday he said this:
The president of America’s largest police management organization on Monday issued a formal apology to the nation’s minority population “for the actions of the past and the role that our profession has played in society’s historical mistreatment of communities of color.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...izes-for-historic-mistreatment-of-minorities/“Events over the past several years,” Cunningham said, “have caused many to question the actions of our officers and has tragically undermined the trust that the public must and should have in their police departments…The history of the law enforcement profession is replete with examples of bravery, self-sacrifice, and service to the community. At its core, policing is a noble profession.”
“At the same time, it is also clear that the history of policing has also had darker periods.” He cited laws enacted by state and federal governments which “have required police officers to perform many unpalatable tasks…While this is no longer the case, this dark side of our shared history has created a multigenerational — almost inherited — mistrust between many communities of color and their law enforcement agencies.”