Victoria Lee was fatally shot by a New Jersey police officer while she was suffering a mental health crisis.
It took two minutes and 33 seconds for Fort Lee police to go from not wanting to hurt Victoria Lee to fatally shooting her.Disturbing body camera footage released by the New Jersey Attorney General's Office on Friday shows officers responding to the apartment of the 26-year-old woman having a mental health crisis.Her family, who had called 911, watched as police broke into the apartment and shot Lee who had been threatening to stab them.
''I really just felt for her brother and her mom, because I know there's a common theme of folks blaming themselves because they didn't have options calling the police,' Boykin said.When law enforcement officials respond to a mental health call, Boykin said they often perceive the person experiencing the emergency as harmful.
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