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Can Nashville Respond to Mental Health Emergencies Without Police?


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Twice now in less than two months, calls to the Metro Nashville Police Department about a person experiencing a mental health crisis have led to officers shooting the person in crisis. 
On March 12, 33-year-old Melissa Wooden called 911 and made comments to dispatchers about harming herself specifically, she said she hoped police would come and shoot her to death. Three Madison precinct officers responded to the 2800 block of Greer Road in the Goodlettsville area, where they found Wooden, a white woman, standing near the road with a pickax and a baseball bat. Footage from a body camera worn by Officer Ben Williams shows him arriving on the scene as another officer is shouting at Wooden to “Step away from my car!” Williams begins engaging with her more calmly, and as she makes repeated comments urging the officers to kill her, Williams tells her that’s not going to happen.  ....

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With two officer-involved shootings in one day, Nashville police chief vows transparency


With two officer-involved shootings in one day, Nashville police chief vows transparency
Yue Stella Yu, Nashville Tennessean
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Debris is seen in the parking lot of a Dollar General store on Brick Church Pike as police investigate the scene where an MNPD officer and 31-year-old woman were shot on Friday, Mar. 12, 2021.
Faced with two officer-involved shootings on the same day, Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake Saturday he will warn his force to use caution and de-escalate when they can.
Drake spoke with members of the media near Vanderbilt University Medical Center Saturday, where Officer Josh Baker is being treated for injuries sustained in a shooting Friday morning. ....

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