I'm glad that the horrible issue of police violence against psychiatrically disabled people, whose families have called police in order to have them forced into involuntary medical treatment, is getting media attention, but please let me note:
None of this would be happening if people weren't trying to force psychiatrically disabled people into involuntary medical treatment in the first place.
Yes, people can lobby for police to be trained in "de-escalation techniques" for taking people into custody for forced medical treatment without (physically-injurious) violence... or, alternately, we can get coercion and policing out of medical treatment and abolish involuntary treatment altogether. #presumecompetence
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