The killing Monday angered and saddened Passmore’s family and raised questions about whether officers could have done things differently. It came as many police departments nationwide have changed the way they respond to certain calls, including those involving mentally ill people — in response to outcries over police killings.
Police body camera videos showed part of what happened after officers arrived at Passmore’s home in Wallingford, Connecticut. The man’s girlfriend had called 911 shortly after 2:30 a.m. to report he had shot himself in the face in their bedroom.
The state inspector general’s office, which investigates all police shootings in Connecticut, said the officers spoke to Passmore for about nine minutes.
ACAB
Always.
It came as many police departments nationwide have changed the way they respond to certain calls, including those involving mentally ill people — in response to outcries over police killings.
Well, citation fucking needed.
Questions like “why do we give people with a high school education and 6 weeks of training a firearm and near-complete immunity when they inevitably kill someone for no good reason?”
Why does this keep happening?!?! If there was everything we could do!!!
Changing the way certain calls are handled? Considering the current way they are handled, there can’t be much worse than already.
The current flow chart checks to see if the suspect is dead. If they aren’t dead, it goes to “can we change that?”, and then if that doesn’t work it goes to " are you really sure you can’t change it?"
“From now on, in these ZIP codes, LAPD officers responding to mental health calls will simply launch grenades into the residence until it is flattened.”
That would be worse.
taps head Can’t traumatize a family if there is no more family.
its all in the complete lack of regulation and training. but hey, keep having multiple overlapping jurisdictional levels of barely trained, severely armed individuals policing your communities. its clearly workin for ya.
