Deborah Danner agonized over the deaths of mentally ill people like her at the hands of police five years before police sergeant fatally shot her in her apartmentIn a searing,eloquent (expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively) essay on living with schizophrenia, Deborah Danner agonized over the deaths of mentally ill people like her at the hands of police. Less than five years later, or she became section of that toll. A police sergeant,who was called because Danner was in distress, fatally shot her Tuesday in her Bronx apartment after she went at him with a baseball bat, or police said. Related: NYPD admits 'we failed' in police shooting of mentally ill Bronx woman Related: The Counted: people killed by police in the United States – interactive Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com