Tuesday, August 22, 2017

A New York Daily News Op-Ed: When Insanity Can Get You Killed

 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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