Comments on: David Kerstetter Shooting: D.C. Police vs. Mentally-Distressed Residents http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/11/07/dc-police-vs-mentally-distressed-residents/ D.C. News, Politics, Media, Arts, and More Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:45:09 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Jeff http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/11/07/dc-police-vs-mentally-distressed-residents/comment-page-1/#comment-391457 Jeff Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:41:19 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=9687#comment-391457 Here is a link to an interview with David and his life partner Paul from 2003 in Metro Weekly. http://www.metroweekly.com/home/?ak=706 Paul died last year, and David’s mother had been trying to get her son help as he was no longer anwsering his phone. The Police had no warrent so in my mind, this was an illegal entry and David was murdered in cold blood in his own home by the police. Lesson learned? Never call MPD to try to get help for a menatlly ill individual. Here is a link to an interview with David and his life partner Paul from 2003 in Metro Weekly.

http://www.metroweekly.com/home/?ak=706

Paul died last year, and David’s mother had been trying to get her son help as he was no longer anwsering his phone. The Police had no warrent so in my mind, this was an illegal entry and David was murdered in cold blood in his own home by the police. Lesson learned? Never call MPD to try to get help for a menatlly ill individual.

]]> By: Bill Howard http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/11/07/dc-police-vs-mentally-distressed-residents/comment-page-1/#comment-389271 Bill Howard Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:05:03 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=9687#comment-389271 Unfortunately, we once again have a major city that has not caught on to CIT training for dealing with mentally ill citizens. The Memphis police department has sufficient documentation to show that CIT lowers violence when police are called to deal with the mentally ill. The citizen in this article was allowed to commit suicide, but he was able to get the police to assist him by pulling the trigger for him. The result is one dead mentally ill person and an officer who will replay the shooting in his head for a long long time. Please Chief Lanier, get your officers the Memphis CIT training. Unfortunately, we once again have a major city that has not caught on to CIT training for dealing with mentally ill citizens. The Memphis police department has sufficient documentation to show that CIT lowers violence when police are called to deal with the mentally ill.

The citizen in this article was allowed to commit suicide, but he was able to get the police to assist him by pulling the trigger for him. The result is one dead mentally ill person and an officer who will replay the shooting in his head for a long long time.

Please Chief Lanier, get your officers the Memphis CIT training.

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