Police officers in Rochester, N. In Rochester, N. Body cam footage shows her struggling with police and screaming for her dad as officers try to force her into a police car. They wanted to take her to the hospital for a mental health evaluation.
NPR's Liz Baker reports on the reaction. Ann Maurice Jones ph walked with her 8 and 9-year-old little siblings, shouting chants that are so familiar after weeks of protests over the summer. I don't care. Winter, spring, summer, fall, I'm always going to do it. I'm always going to fight for us. She says suspension of the officers is not enough. They're just not having to go to work. But this little girl is traumatized. It's not fair. BAKER: Many in the small crowd also marched night after night last September, demanding justice for Daniel Prude, police reform and more empathetic policing of those experiencing mental illness.
And the city of Rochester did create a Persons in Crisis program designed to have mental health professionals respond to mental health calls. But according to the mayor, the new program, which launched only a few weeks ago, wasn't triggered in this case because of the way the call came in, as a family distress call and not as a mental health call. Officers determined the girl was possibly a danger to herself and others only after they arrived on scene. And we see with our own eyes that it's still the same police force.
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Liz Baker. Keep your cuffs off of our kids.
