“Not only do we need justice for taking our dear beloved brother away, but we need justice for all of his due process that’s happened since.”
Saturday, the Jun Wang Foundation hosted a rally in his honor, marching to the North Royalton Police Department from a nearby park. The group was joined by community members, several activist groups, as well Samaria Rice, the mother of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was fatally shot by Cleveland Police in 2014.“We understand how the corruption in Cuyahoga County is so real,” Rice yelled through a megaphone during the rally.
Elaine Schleiffer, an organizer for Responding with Empathy, Access and Community Healing added, The family’s attorney claims the responding officers defied their duty to respond with medical assistance on hand and says they ignored their training when they entered the home and yelled commands at Wang, despite his sister’s request to go in first and facilitate the encounter.
According to a report from Northeast Ohio Medical University, Ohio law enforcement officers have been required to take a 16-hour crisis intervention training course through the Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy since 2007. The program trains officers to identify mental health crises and respond with de-escalation methods, rather than traditional “command and control” tactics.
“A lot of people that we see every day have struggled with mental health problems, have struggled with traumas. And so we identified with the story pretty deeply,” she said. “They were just trying to get help for him.” “There is a better future we can create for ourselves in which people with compassion and empathy and training and the right temperament are put in these situations to handle individuals who are in crisis,” said Josiah Quarles, an activist with Black Spring Cleveland.
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