White Support For BLM Falls, And A Key Police Reform Effort Is Coming Up Short
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🗓️ 22 September 2020
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Calls like that make up an estimated 20% of police calls. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports that efforts to reform how police respond — with crisis intervention teams — have fallen short.
And as protests for racial justice have continued, public support for the Black Lives Matter movement has fallen — especially among white Americans. NPR's Brian Mann and Elizabeth Baker explain why activists say they need more support from white protesters.
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| 0:00.0 | On March 23, Joe Prude was worried about his brother, Daniel. Daniel had a history of mental illness, |
| 0:06.8 | so Joe sent him to a psychiatric hospital for help. They released him hours later, |
| 0:12.1 | and Joe says there wasn't a proper evaluation. Later that night, the two brothers were talking |
| 0:17.8 | together in Joe's home. Joe then left the room for a moment, and when he returned, his brother, |
| 0:27.0 | Daniel was gone. Because of Daniel's mental health issues, Joe called 911. |
| 0:32.3 | For a person like that that you love so much that just disappearing thing now, it's like wow, |
| 0:39.6 | how did I lose sight of him that quick when I had my whole eye on him the whole time? |
| 0:44.1 | And in the process, like me trying to figure out which way he went, you immediately got on the phone |
| 0:50.4 | with 911. Get on the ground, put your hands behind your back. Behind your back. Don't move. |
| 0:57.2 | Don't move. Chill out man, don't move, alright man? Just don't move. |
| 1:02.0 | The video was shot from a police body cam just after 3am, as a light snow was falling in Rochester. |
| 1:09.1 | Police approached Daniel Prude, who'd been running through the streets naked and coherent. |
| 1:17.4 | Officers put a hood over Prude's head, it's called a spit hood actually, it's supposed to |
| 1:22.0 | protect the officers. And here's what followed. The three officers pinned him to the ground, |
| 1:28.4 | pressing his face into the pavement for two minutes. And Daniel Prude stopped breathing. |
| 1:34.5 | One week later, he was taken off life support at a local hospital. |
| 1:38.1 | This is what the outcome I called him for to list my brother. I didn't call him to come help my |
| 1:44.0 | brother die. I called him to come help me get my brother some help. Consider this, when you call 911 |
| 1:52.1 | who shows up. And what are they trained to do? A lot of police departments are asking those |
| 1:57.5 | questions right now, but many of them are failing to come up with any new answers. |
| 2:02.7 | From NPR, I'm Audit Cornish. It's Tuesday, September 22nd. |
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