Alfred Olango: US police kill mentally ill black man

[Lee-Lee]

46. I've actually has the most extensive version offered to LE in my state

When I was an officer.

And it still is no magic bullet. Yes it helped me be able to identify people in crisis and better communicate with them and understand them- but it doesn't do squat to help with a person not following commands from a distance who then pulls an object from his pocket and aims it like a gun.

Training is good. Training isn't a manic cure-all that means in a situation like this the cops gain some sort of psychic ability to know what's going on in his mind and that he's absolutely not a danger when he is behaving in a way that indicates he may be.

No level of training will allow you to know within moments of arriving on scene if that person is suffering a mental health crisis and is of no danger to you or if he is a danger, mental health crisis or not, when he refuses to take his hands out of his pockets and when he does he raises an object up just like a gun.

I could take a psychiatrist with decades of experience and put them through the police academy and out in a uniform and they couldn't do that.