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To stop police shootings of people with mental health disabilities, I asked them what cops – and everyone – could do to help

  • Written by Jennifer Sarrett, Lecturer, Center for Study of Human Health, Emory University
To stop police shootings of people with mental health disabilities, I asked them what cops – and everyone – could do to helpDarren Spencer at a memorial for his childhood friend Saheed Vassell, a 34-year-old father of a teenage son, fatally shot by police in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, April 5, 2018. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews

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