Dwayne Jeune
By Errol Louis
When hundreds of
demonstrators recently took to the street to protest the police killing of
seriously mentally ill New Yorkers, my main question was: What took you so
long?
New York is long overdue for a complete
overhaul of the way we treat severely mentally ill people. And by long, I mean
at least 33 years, the length of time since a 66-year-old grandmother named
Eleanor Bumpurs was shot to death by police attempting to evict her from an
apartment in the Sedgwick Houses.
Bumpurs was four months behind on her
rent of $96.85. Less than a week before cops arrived, a city social worker and
psychiatrist had visited her. She told them that then-President Ronald Reagan
had vandalized her apartment.
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Source: The Empire Report
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