Don’t Call The Cops. Especially If Your Loved Ones Are Old, Disabled Or Have Special Needs – OpEd

They shot at him fourteen times.

Walter Wallace Jr.—a troubled 27-year-old black man with a criminal history and mental health issues—was no saint. Still, he didn’t deserve to die in a hail of bullets fired by two police officers who clearly had not been adequately trained in how to de-escalate encounters with special...