greetings, everyone. you are watching symone, we ar following breaking news in the trump hush money case. this is a case involving storm daniels investigating by the grand jury in new york michael cohen tells msnbc an that he is been asked to b available as a rebuttal witnes tomorrow we will have more on who els could be talking in just a moment all of this comes after former president donald trump s claim that he will be arrested thi week there is zero evidence to back that up and he s also got thes calls for protests they are prompting a message for the manhattan da to hi staff. intimidation threats will no be tolerated we will talk about the forme presidents familiar tactic with congresswoman maxin waters plus, let s talk about menta health in policing in america, a quarter of people killed b police have mental illnesses why aren t we seeing major changes in how law enforcement handles calls for help i am symone sanders-townsend and i have something to say. folks, we
preserving life at what poin do we consider mental illness crime? unfortunately, it is no just the family of otieno that is dealing with this i want to give a head tip to m colleague chris jansen who pointed out some of the recent fatal police and counter dealing with mental health whe i was on her show. in new jersey, 31 year old naj seabrook was killed after he called 9-1-1 himself to report a mental health episode. in indiana, a man was shot one day after submitting himself t a mental evaluation. in oregon, a local da investigating possible crimina charges in a fatal polic shooting last month. joining me now to continue tha conversation is former dekal county, georgia, police chie cedric alexander, and vice president of advocacy an partnerships and shall remain. thank you both for being here. cedric, i want to start with you. i think that police, much like teachers, are often asked to d
too much we re asking police officers i situations that they are not trained for, even equipped t handle and i think that some may argu that if the police are called, you re going to get policing what s your response to that well, first of all, thank you, it s good seeing you, symone let me say, this for years i have been saying tha oftentimes, many of our police agencies across the country in communities really have no adequately trained our polic officers to deal with mental health issues that they will come in contact with whe they re on the street. there are significant number of people throughout the communities across this countr who are struggling with mental illness. until we are better trained to do a better job training our officers, giving them the tool they, need an addition to that incorporating some civilia mental health certifie employees who in some of these cases can respond to these things that would take polic out of these interactions. only if there is some reason
resources available wher civilians are qualified to respond to those types o crises we don t have them around th clock all the time that s certainly something we re working toward i think what s important here, we need police, we need all th support, communities need al the support that they ca muster an order to bring thi to attention we keep talking about this issue, symone, and man agencies across the country, until the training is there, one thing your other guest mentioned, she s absolutely, right no matter how much training we give polic officers, that s not going t be the area of expertise here s what can happen, we can train them, when they respon to these, and they can mak note an observation that there is a clear mental health crisi that s going on that they re trained to be able to go back. to slow things down and attemp to bring to those situations she s absolutely correct
believe that there could b someone seriously injured. i think one of the first thing that would happen, adequat trade officers, and be able to get people inside across the country to be able to assess o the scene. i want to put this data o the screen from the american psychological association, the point this out, since 2015 close to a quarter of people killed by police absence and the united states had unknow mental health condition. in november 2016, and th american journal o preventative medicine, 20 to 50% of law enforcement fatalities involved in individual with a mental illness. you hear these numbers, insha. you heard what cedric wa saying how can we get these numbers down the first problem is that w are sending police unwinnabl situations that no matter ho much training they get, they