Washington County (Oregon) sued for sending law enforcement to respond to mental health emergencies instead of mental-health providers
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/washington-county/lawsuit-washington-county-mental-illness-emergency-response-services/283-a8a8df0c-51e1-4966-88e7-629cb926ddd7
> The lawsuit details cases in the county where law enforcement was sent to #MentalHealth emergencies, resulting in trauma or arrests for people in crisis
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"He was having a psychiatric crisis. He asked that they not send law enforcement, and that's not what happened. They sent the law enforcement response," said Dave Boyer, managing attorney for Disability Rights Oregon. "You know, he's very agitated. They took him to the emergency room and in the emergency room, he made a decision that he wanted to end his life; the quickest way possible for that to happen was to grab at the deputy's firearm and the deputy stabbed him with a knife." Wesley is now named as the plaintiff in the lawsuit, which details other cases in the county where deputies or officers responded to mental health emergencies, which ended in trauma, arrests, or criminal charges for the people in crisis