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From: Andrew Phelps <dis_course@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [cnmhc] Man dies after altercation with police
To: cnmhc@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, May 30, 2008, 10:20 AM
There is currently a ballot for Regional Project for Bay Area CNMHC, and one of the choices is "multicultural police shootings."
The multicultural police shootings group in Santa Clara Co. is called "Coalition for Justice and Accountability" CJA. They work with the "community control of police" project Silicon Valley Debug. They also work with the "Ban Tasers" project. Several of us, including myself and Jose Rangel and Phil Winn, are regular participants; others such as Delphine Brody or Michael Diehl have been presenters.
The CJA currently takes the position that the "client/survivor" people speak most authentically for "mental health." Jose is the rep. to the County MHSA Stakeholders Leadership Committee and I'm the co-chair of the "Prop. 63" subcommittee.
We need to do more work with groups like CJA and CopWatch to fight 'forced treatment'. Compliance is not the answer.
Andrew
Yyy wrote:
I can relate to what happen to the man that died, due to a Tasers, I been hit twice, and you black out fast and go down the same, with the cops trying to get you come to out of it, lucky that all they did to me, ..
Ggg wrote:
Maybe the person wouldn't have become "combative" if he had been left alone. If he was not breaking the law he should have been allowed to do as he pleased. Safe Harbor [Woodland, Yolo County] is a voluntary program. I question police procedures and tactics in general, not just the use of Tasers. I also will ask about this program's policy of calling the police when a person leaves Safe Harbor in an "agitated" state.