30
Jul
2015

Police Shoot and Kill Mentally Ill Native American Man

s.e. smith, Care2: Earlier this month, Denver police shot and killed Paul Castaway, a Lakota Sioux man living with mental illness. His case illustrates two issues that are flying under the radar: that more than half of fatal shootings involve mentally ill people, and that Native Americans are statistically more at risk of dying in police shootings than other racial groups.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32120-police-shoot-and-kill-mentally-ill-native-american-man



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