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Mental Health And Police Violence: How Crisis Intervention Teams Are Failing

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Eric Westervelt

September 18, 2020

Demonstrators march through the streets of Rochester, N.Y., earlier this month protesting the death of Daniel Prude, apparently stopped breathing as police were restraining him in March. (AP)

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