"With disabled people in particular, police aren't trained to deal with us, they shoot first and ask questions later instead of taking the time to try and understand what we want to get across during interactions with them. Because everything is considered a threat first, we are more likely to die first. I absolutely don't think that the police are trained properly to handle calls when disability and mental illness are at play. If they did Alfred would still be alive."
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Keah Brown; as qtd. in Brittney McNamara, “Up to Half of People Killed by Police Are Disabled”, Teen Vogue, (September 29, 2016).
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