Gladys Whitfield and Herman Whitfield Jr. have spent the last four months standing at podiums and microphones, beside friends and family and strangers, hoping what happened to their son, Herman Whitfield III, doesn t slip out of the public s consciousness.
The family of an Indianapolis man who was suffering from a mental health crisis when he died while being restrained by police is demanding answers amid a
Herman Whitfield III died after police responded to his mental health crisis. The wrongful death lawsuit alleges Whitfield, who is Black, called out “I can’t breathe” while being restrained by officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Dept.