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me to me: look right past him as if he doesn’t exist

It’s so sad that when I come across a victim of police brutality who is a black woman I can almost guarantee her death wasn’t paid attention to. That’s freaking sad that has become a trend, and no matter how many black women talk about it black people, or people period still don’t care. 

A mentally ill elderly woman with a baseball bat having a breakdown.

A mentally ill elderly woman with a baseball bat having a breakdown should be taken to the hospital for a medical intervention and treated with care and compassion.

Deborah Danner was shot and killed by police on Tuesday in the Bronx.

This is common sense.

If I saw a 66-year-old woman having a mental healthCRISIS AND SHE picked up a bat, I would not shoot and kill her. I wouldn’t shoot her in the leg. I damn sure wouldn’t shoot her repeatedly until she died.

That’s exactly what NYPD Sgt. Hugh Barry did on Tuesday evening when he shot and killed Deborah Danner, a 66-year-old Bronx woman with a long history of mental illness and breakdownsREQUIRING interventions.

Her neighbors knew she was unstable. The police had visited her home on many prior calls.

That a cop shotAND KILLED THIS woman is absolutely preposterous. While I am encouraged that NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill suggested it was a bad shooting when he said, “We do have policies and procedures for emotionally disturbed people and it appears those procedures weren’tFOLLOWED,” I also know that Officer Daniel Pantaleo applied a banned chokehold on Eric Garner before killing him.

Police Commissioner James O`Neill has said he thinks the incident was a bad shooting.

Pantaleo is an NYPD officer to this very day.

Barry was armed with a Taser, but didn’t use it. Any availableOPTIONwould’ve been better than what he did.

He didn’t think the baseball batWAS AN assault rifle.

He didn’t think her purse was a bomb.

He didn’t think her cell phone was a gun.

Officer Daniel Pantaleo faced no consequences for placing Eric Garner is a deadly chokehold.

He shot and killed Deborah Danner because that’s what police seem to have been taught they should do the moment they get scared.

In 2015, at least 1,207 people were killed by police in this country and not aSINGLE OFFICER was convicted the entire year. Zero.

So, of course Barry must have thought he couldGET AWAY WITH this shooting. What in the world would make him think otherwise?

And, of course, not a single NYPD officer has a body camera. In a city which prides itself on innovation, everything about the killing of Deborah Danner looks and feels like an old fashion firing squad.

This is not OK — not at all.