Deaths and injuries involving police during so-called wellness checks coupled with recent protests against police brutality are generating scrutiny over how officers respond to people struggling with mental health challenges.
Should police respond to mental health calls?
WARNING: Disturbing content. Security footage has surfaced of an RCMP officer dragging a young B.C. woman named Mona Wang down a hallway, and later stepping on her head at Wang's apartment building in Kelowna on January 20. The video is the latest example of a wellness check by police under scrutiny. Abigail Bimman looks at what wellness checks are supposed to be, and whether who responds to them needs to change.
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