
To stop police shootings of people with mental health disabilities, I asked them what cops — and everyone — could do to help
After Shukri Ali Said left her house in Georgia during a mental health crisis on April 23, 2018, her sister called 911 for help. Police found Said standing at an intersection holding a knife. Officers shot her five times in the neck and chest, killing her. That same month, in Brooklyn, officers answered a 911 call about a black man waving





