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Oct 20, 2016, 10:37 PM
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On Tuesday, Ms. Danner, 66, was fatally shot by a police sergeant in her Bronx apartment in a confrontation that was condemned in swift and striking terms by Mayor Bill de Blasioand Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill.
Both the mayor and the commissioner said the officer had failed to follow the Police Department’s protocol for dealing with an emotionally disturbed person. The confrontation that left Ms. Danner dead began with a 911 call at 6:05 p.m. on Tuesday from a neighbor, who reported that Ms. Danner was acting erratically. It was not the first time the police had been summoned to the building at 630 Pugsley Avenue to deal with her, and initially it appeared that the episode inside her seventh-floor apartment would end peacefully. Sergeant Barry persuaded her to put down a pair of scissors she was holding in her bedroom, according to initial police accounts. But then, according to those same accounts, Ms. Danner picked up a baseball bat and tried to swing at Sergeant Barry. He fired twice, fatally wounding her, the police said. Several other officers were at the scene, but none of them, except Sergeant Barry, were in the bedroom. In faulting the officer’s actions, Mr. de Blasio said Sergeant Barry should have waited for more specialized officers, from the department’s elite Emergency Service Unit, to arrive. The mayor also noted that Sergeant Barry was equipped with a stun gunthat he could have used to try to subdue Ms. Danner. “There was an opportunity to slow things down here and wait to get everything set up the right way,” Mr. de Blasio said. New York City has begun providing its rank-and-file officers with more advanced training on dealing with people with mental illness. But the training, begun last year, has reached only about 4,400 of the Police Department’s roughly 36,000 officers, and Sergeant Barry had not yet done the four-day training regimen. Known as Crisis Intervention Training, the program has been used for years in many other police departments in the United States. According to the mayor, Ms. Danner’s behavior had drawn the attention of the police before, one of the more than 100,000 calls about emotionally disturbed people that the department responds to every year. The police have responded to more than 128,000 such calls in 2016. Ed Mullins, the president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, the union that represents Sergeant Barry, said he opened fire only after Ms. Danner swung the bat at his head, “fearing for his own life, as well as the lives of others.”
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Oct 20, 2016, 10:51 PM
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Beyond tragic and way too common I'm afraid.
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#3
Oct 21, 2016, 12:17 AM
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It's 2016 and still all officers have not been trained. In some states the training is optional.
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Oct 21, 2016, 12:22 AM
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I've had my experience with untrained police officers....one female cop wanted to beat me with her club...if you could have seen the evil look in her eye, it was beyond imagination. More training and ongoing training should be mandatory.
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Oct 21, 2016, 01:06 AM
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God. And the cases on the news are the ones we hear about.
I am sure there are many, less lethal, altercations ever day. When they talk about the rate of mental ill in the population of homeless people. It is heartbreaking. |
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Oct 21, 2016, 05:16 AM
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Yes that and putting MI right in jail instead of taking them to the hospital
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Oct 21, 2016, 10:29 AM
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I couldn't help crack a smile at the mention of the name of where she lived.
Pugsley Avenue wow it's certainly sad about the shooting though |
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Oct 21, 2016, 10:58 AM
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If the healthcare system was better....available to all. MI people would not be in certain distress situations. I read one story of hospitals discharging patients. Then putting them on a Greyhound bus out of state....not to family or friends...just any selected state!
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Oct 21, 2016, 12:27 PM
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That is terrifying Coco! I just cannot even imagine.
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