It’s not just the numbers that are disturbing. It’s also encounters, captured on video, that show shocking confrontations.
Thompson Nguyen, 27, marched toward San Jose Police officers while demanding they “shoot him” and holding an ax and metal pipe at Metcalf Energy Center in San Jose, California on January 9, 2018. Officers shot and killed Nguyen moments later.Thompson “Tommy” Nguyen was undergoing a psychotic break holding an ax and a metal pipe as he walked the grounds of a San Jose power plant. He never raised his arms or overtly menaced police with the weapons.
In 2017, San Jose became the first big-city police department in the country to mandate crisis-intervention training for its officers. The training was a condition of the city’s legal settlement with the family of a 19-year-old woman shot dead by police during a psychiatric breakdown. To be sure, there are some bright spots in the data, most notably that the total number of cases that involved lethal force declined over time. But there continues to be a troubling number of cases of police violence involving the mentally impaired.Editorial: California should exercise caution on self-driving trucks
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