7 Rochester Police Officers Suspended in Death of Black Man Whom They Hooded

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I remember seeing a thread where the raw video had been posted after it had been released.

And this whole incident happened 5 months ago.

One of the issues of the so-called "defund the police" effort was to actually rethink how police are being utilized. I.e., instead of having them be required to deal with psychotic (whether drug-induced or chronically mentally ill) individuals, a whole different group needs to be brought in to handle it. The police have little or no training on dealing with these types of individuals.

And that idea expands to handling those who are autistic or otherwise mentally challenged, who will often not "follow commands" just because a cop barks them, assuming they are being obstinate when they get no response. So they end up beaten to a pulp or killed, with the excuse that they "didn't cooperate" or "weren't follow orders" or were "resisting arrest".