on April 25. Whitfield was tased and handcuffed face-down by Indianapolis Metropolitan Police inside his parent’s home while suffering from an apparent mental health episode. By the time medics arrived, he was unresponsive.
The exact composition of the clinician-led teams, how many people the program will staff and what emergency calls they’d respond to are still being determined. The team would not replace the police department’s Mobile Crisis Assistant Teams , which consist of an officer trained on crisis intervention and a clinician who respond to certain situations.
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