Friday, September 30, 2016

An Issue Rarely Talked About In The Police Shootings of Blacks

"Charlotte has erupted in anger over another black man being killed by police. But what the media, protesters and community members aren’t discussing is that Keith Lamont Scott is yet another disabled man killed by police and that the intersection of his disability and race likely played a part in his death.

"Over the past few years, Black Lives Matter formed in solidarity against the killing of unarmed black men by police. This organization and many protests fail to recognize that 50 percent of police killings are of people with disabilities, typically those with mental illness or intellectual disabilities, according to the Ruderman Family Foundation. This often happens because people with these types of disabilities lack executive function, meaning they struggle to follow a detailed list of instructions."

Keith Lamont Scott’s disability may have played a role

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article104985181.html#storylink=cpy

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