Churchill: For two Daniels, two preventable deaths
Churchill: For two Daniels, two preventable deaths
The deaths of Daniel Prude and Daniel Satre show that police are often ill-equipped to deal with mental-health emergencies
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1of9Daniel Satre died in 2014 after police repeatedly used stun guns on him outside his home in Ballston Spa. His mother, Lois Christie, believes her son died wrongfully. (Contributed photo) Show MoreShow Less
2of9FILE - In this undated file photo provided by Roth and Roth LLP, shows Daniel Prude. Prude, 41, who suffocated after police in Rochester, N.Y., put a spit hood over his head while being taken into custody. On Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, Rochester mayor Lovely Warren announced that top police leaders in the city are retiring en masse amid criticism of the city s handling of Prude s death. Prude, 41, died March 30, 2020 after his family took him off life support seven days after Rochester police officers encountered
The problem with Andrew Cuomo s apology
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Listen: How Andrew Cuomo s apology could affect his political career
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Letter: Where else but nursing homes should those patients have been sent?
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FILE. Letter writer says, It seems to me the only obvious place for them to go was back to the nursing homes. Not a good choice, but the only obvious one. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg)Michael Nagle/Bloomberg News Service
I’ve been reading Chris Churchill’s columns about the nursing home deaths here in New York state and, while I m not an apologist for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, especially regarding not being truthful about the nursing home deaths, I find I have trouble accepting some other of Churchill s assertions. The one I find most troublesome is his railing about Cuomo’s order that nursing homes accept stable COVID-19 patients from hospitals. Given the situation at the time with hospital rooms at a premium, just where would Churchill have proposed those people be sent? Back home where their families were not capable of handling them? Otherwise, why were they in nursing h