Family of Tennessee teen calls for mental health help, gets cops instead, so the man dies in custody, and weeks later, cops haven't released the video
https://web.archive.org/web/20230827153447/https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/local/2023/08/25/family-of-courntey-ross-teen-that-died-in-memphis-police-custody-needed-mental-health-help/70679553007/
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JoYo@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 3y
I don't even think hospitals should get involved with mental health issues.
they have no idea what to do.
DougHolland@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
I used to think that, in some distant, better future, people would chuckle at our primitive 21st century mental health care — the difficulty of obtaining it, and the startlingly limited efficacy of any of it.
Just looking around, though, realistically, I no longer think that distant, better future is attainable.
Stay strong, though. Let's survive it alive as long as we can.
kdj770@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
This would happen in most southern states (GA resident here). There is almost no decent/real mental health resources here.