A video showing police pinning and handcuffing a homeless woman on Friday prompted responses on social media and from city government and mental health professionals.
, the police were trying to bring the woman to the hospital for"evaluation" in accordance with a New York State law that permits mental health professionals to forcefully take someone to the hospital if they appear to be mentally ill.about the incident. She explained the outrage was sparked by a"misunderstanding," and that the police method seen in the video is only used"when someone is a danger to themselves or to others.".
One person at the scene of the incident was Dr. Mitchell Katz, the president and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals, a public health care system. In a tweet Friday, Katz wrote that the woman in the video was not charged with a crime, and provided an explanation as to why the woman may have been apprehended as she was in the video.
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