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0:02[Music]
0:04ambulance you just shot somebody
0:07unconscious not breathing no PA this is
0:10the third time that someone has died at
0:11the hands of police in the last 6 months
0:13in the midst of a mental health
0:16crisis Michael needed help he needed
0:18Medical Care he didn't need two bullets
0:20through his
0:22chest it was clear that my son was shot
0:24in the head when he was on his hands and
0:28knees the stage of through all over
0:30again to see these juries make
0:32recommendations about deescalation and
0:35then we see videotapes there's no
0:37deescalation and why after the first
0:39three
0:41shots when you can see your team falling
0:43to the ground did forcillo keep shooting
0:47it's really quite astonishing it has to
0:57change we want just
1:00we want Justice we want Justice
1:0418-year-old Samy yatim's death on a
1:06Toronto street car in the summer of 2013
1:10ignited public outrage over police
1:12shootings that are mentally ill or
1:14emotionally disturbed you answered his
1:16call for help with nine
1:19[Applause]
1:20bullets yatim was a student from a
1:23middle class family he had no criminal
1:26record no History of Violence our youth
1:29for our future we have a right to live
1:31in Safety and
1:34[Music]
1:37Security according to his family Sami
1:39yatim wasn't mentally ill but as he rode
1:42the Dundas line late that July night
1:45yatim was acting very strange even
1:48threatening fellow passengers with a
1:50knife for many people that still wasn't
1:53enough to justify what happened next
1:56yatim was alone on the street car when
1:59police arrived
2:01they fired nine
2:07times and then they tasered
2:13him Canada keeps no reliable Nationwide
2:16record of police shootings but an
2:19extremely conservative analysis of
2:21inquest records from 2004 to 2014
2:25reveals 72 people in crisis shoted by
2:29police almost 40% of all police
2:33shootings from time to time the focus
2:36shifts onto the disproportionate number
2:38of non-white victims but always at the
2:40core what seems to be excessive use of
2:43force against people in
2:45crisis until the system starts to hold
2:49the officers who do these things
2:51responsible it's going to keep happening
2:53again and
2:58again little about br Brian he was the
3:00life of the
3:01party he had a smile that would light up
3:05any room um would make the girl's Hearts
3:09melt he a very good-looking
3:12boy Jackie Christopher's son O'Brien was
3:15on a break from seconde chemical
3:17engineering at Ryerson University in
3:19Toronto when he began suffering paranoid
3:22delusions at one point we were talking
3:24and he said to me
3:26um I was watching TV and they know my
3:29name
3:30they know everything about me you know
3:31and I think it's when I went to the
3:33dentist and they put something in my one
3:35of my tooth and and it's like a
3:37microphone so I need to go get it out
3:39and stuff like that and then I knew it
3:42was something was
3:44totally
3:47off by 2004 O'Brien has been in and out
3:52of hospital but is still managing
3:54somehow to hold down a job one June day
3:57he heads into Edward's Garden for some
4:00reason he's carrying a knife looked odd
4:05and potentially dangerous police came it
4:07was appropriate they don't see a knife
4:09at that point this is all according to
4:11their own evidence but one of the
4:13officers yells at him get down on the
4:16ground he says what
4:18for very sensible question the officer
4:22doesn't answer him the two officers try
4:25and wrestle him to the ground he breaks
4:28away you your sh at somebody who's
4:30already in a crisis it's
4:33worse he runs you run after
4:37him okay I says do you think maybe he
4:40ran because of the way you spoke to him
4:42initially but why didn't they answer his
4:45question what for he wasn't even
4:47agitated at that point according to
4:49their own description so I asked the
4:52officer that in cross-examination and he
4:54says first we get control then I answer
4:58questions and um
5:00they shot
5:05him within 3 minutes of come into
5:09contact with him if that
5:17much after the 2007 inquest into her
5:20son's death a corer dropped off a
5:23package for Jackie Christopher
5:25undoubtedly it contains the clothes
5:28O'Brien was wearing that day
5:30she can't throw it out or bear to open
5:36it Peter Rosenthal became a familiar
5:39figure acting for bereaved families as
5:42inquest followed inquest into police
5:44shootings of the emotionally disturbed
5:46My Hope Is that this inquest really
5:49underlines the fact that police officers
5:51should try deescalation in all these
5:54situations way before they use weapons
6:00in February 2012 a mentally ill man
6:03walks away from Toronto East General
6:06Hospital from the evidence at the
6:08inquest Michael eligon left the hospital
6:11wearing just a hospital gown socks and
6:13underwear and a toque I think it must
6:16have been
6:18cold eligon wanders into a convenience
6:21store grabs two pairs of scissors and
6:24gets into a tussle with the owner over
6:26payment resulting in a cut to the man's
6:28hand
6:30hi it's C Radio K 154 for stabbing as
6:34police respond to numerous 911 calls
6:37eligon walks on trying to get into cars
6:40and houses for the most part
6:42eyewitnesses say he isn't aggressive but
6:45Strang the out of it was he waving the
6:48scissors around uh slightly like
6:50menacingly or like confused confused it
6:55was just tunnel vision Straight Ahead
6:57walking towards a line of police
6:59officers he wasn't running at them or
7:01going to attack them he just didn't
7:04stop
7:07now imagine being Michael eligard
7:10shuffling along and whatever confused
7:13thoughts he had and all of a sudden he's
7:15[Music]
7:21dead Tonto ambulance where do you need
7:23us hi 3 room hi can you meet us at 546
7:26Milverton we have just shot somebody oh
7:30okay we numerous units on scene is he
7:32conscious and breathing do we know is
7:33conscious and breathing unconscious not
7:35breathing no paa okay okay this is the
7:39third time that someone has died at the
7:41hands of police in the last 6 months in
7:43the midst of a mental health crisis you
7:45know I look back at all the inquests
7:47that happened before O'Brien's
7:50death O'Brien's inquest that I spent
7:53many days in and all the recommendations
7:56that came out of that inquest
8:00and again nothing was
8:04done from the police perspective Lots is
8:07being done in 2014 Toronto police
8:10handled 20,000 interactions with people
8:13in crisis when possible sending a
8:16special team that includes a nurse hi
8:19here what's bothered you today it's my
8:23son I feel him okay so what do you think
8:26the police can do to help you today oh
8:30you have the false officer how could you
8:32threw your medication
8:34outside it was a good call in the fact
8:36that the police officers backed off
8:38because she was so agitated and she's
8:40very delusional so it was all just about
8:42de-escalating her and getting her to the
8:43hospital the easiest way the camera
8:46inside the
8:52car Toronto the good is not always so
8:56good to the mentally ill especially if
8:58they're sick and and homeless whichever
9:01came
9:02first we're in a an economic crisis
9:04people are losing jobs they're losing
9:07housing uh they can end up on the street
9:10and once you're on the street you're
9:11quite likely to end up in some kind of
9:12mental emotional
9:15crisis Toronto isn't the only city where
9:18Community Mental Health Services aren't
9:20keeping up with increasing
9:21[Music]
9:23demand so this year we're on track for
9:2510,500 visits to our emergency for
9:27mental health and addiction and problems
9:29I call it the $2,500 office visit cuz
9:31it's $800 for the police and the
9:33ambulance each and then about $900 for a
9:36short stay in a merge and that's a lot
9:38of wasted Health Resources we should try
9:40and treat them before the
9:44crisis that is only a toy I know but you
9:47can't be walking around with that right
9:48you're going to generate you're going to
9:50generate calls for us Vancouver Police
9:53estimate 30% of their calls involve
9:56mental health
9:57issues I talk to you for an hour about
10:01what happens to people I used to work at
10:04that hospital in the operating room and
10:07here I am St Paul's as a registered
10:11nurse and here I am on the
10:15gutter how'd you get here bipolar
10:23condition it comes creeps up behind you
10:27and you know it's coming it's like a a
10:29bear it grabs you in a bear hug and
10:32there's nothing you can
10:33do police are kept hopping with chronic
10:36and growing inner city
10:40problems but those problems have little
10:43to do with what happened to Paul
10:45Boyd August 13th 2007 Boyd was
10:50struggling with bipolar disorder when he
10:52was fatally shot by Vancouver
10:55Police except for his illness
10:5739-year-old Boyd was a member of any
11:00atrisk
11:03Community Paul was born in Southern
11:06California I was there teaching at
11:07Caltech for four years and uh he was a
11:10really bright little kid from the very
11:12beginning just full of life and joy and
11:16and also very
11:19intelligent his mental illness first
11:21showed up during University mostly
11:24delusions of persecution of people
11:27watching and uh well even secret agent
11:30kind of
11:32things still Paul made his way into an
11:35animation program and out into a very
11:37successful
11:39career hey chess his last job was at
11:43Vancouver's Global mechanic Paul's
11:45caring personality showed up in his
11:48animation in that he take time to do
11:50things well like the rabbit that he
11:52animated in at the quiny hotel film that
11:55uh we worked on together it was
11:56frustrating um how long it took him to
11:58do it but I also loved that he cared
12:00that much about
12:02it that's definitely one of my favorite
12:04pieces of motion that he did and drawing
12:07that he did CU whenever I look at that
12:09part of the film that Rabbit running is
12:11Paul how he would turn a problem over on
12:14its head was always just
12:16really really incredible to watch I
12:18remember just thinking wow okay yeah
12:21that completely solves our problem and
12:24and I just didn't think that would come
12:25out of him because he was so quiet and
12:27shy and he was
12:30often strangely like a little kid when
12:33he was happy and also when he was
12:36scared early in 2007 Paul's mother was
12:40diagnosed with ALS he was
12:43devastated his cycle started to get
12:46closer together and he you know he was
12:48having a harder and harder time I think
12:50he wasn't sleeping as
12:53well by August 13th Paul is in serious
12:57trouble the day that happened he called
13:00us to meet with him he wasn't Paul and
13:03there was kind of the light was out or
13:05something I don't know I hadn't seen him
13:07like that before anyway I hadn't seen
13:08him that far
13:09[Music]
13:11gone from his Westside Vancouver
13:14apartment Paul calls his dad three times
13:16that day the last call at around 7:30
13:20p.m. he now sounded much more psychotic
13:23than he had earlier on in the day he
13:25didn't want to go to the hospital he
13:27said it was just like being in jail
13:28there and and uh uh he didn't want to
13:31start from Square
13:32[Music]
13:34zero it's the last time they'll
13:40speak police say a man wielding a chain
13:43with a padlock struck two officers and
13:45within seconds he was dead shot several
13:48times police will report being called to
13:51an assault in progress 2 and 1/2 minutes
13:54after they arrive on scene Paul Boyd is
13:56dead one officer later testifies that he
13:59fired nine times in self-defense as voyd
14:02attacked him with a chain our officers
14:05uh are trained quite well and they took
14:08what option they had to take his story
14:10was so at odds with the witnesses they
14:12had no act to grind it was clear that my
14:14son was shock in the head when he was on
14:16his hands and
14:19knees the inquest was over and police
14:22cleared when out of the blue a video
14:25surfaced taken by a tourist visiting
14:28Vancouver
14:35what it reveals is shocking Boyd was
14:38unarmed and crawling before the Fatal
14:40shot was
14:54fired a special prosecutor concluded
14:57that the officer who fired on Boyd
14:59believed he was under threat but there
15:01was no assault in progress on police
15:03recall Paul wasn't initially hostile to
15:06police and he was unarmed by the time
15:08the ninth and final shot was
15:11fired I didn't see much assessment of
15:13the situation they just were in it and
15:17suddenly reacting to it and then Paul
15:19was reacting to their reaction and it
15:22just went downhill from
15:24there the police were the cause of the
15:27violence that night
15:338 years later St Paul's emergency is
15:36bursting with mental health patients
15:39thanks in large part to positive if
15:41expensive changes in policing fewer
15:44people in crisis jailed more taken to
15:47hospital and so that kind of
15:50understanding it really is Landmark
15:52because it's far easier for somebody to
15:54be arrested taken to jail booked in and
15:56then the policeman get back on his on
15:58his shift it's a more difficult
16:00complicated process to do what they're
16:01doing
16:04now these kinds of improvements to
16:06policing across the country definitely
16:08improve lives but they don't always stop
16:11the
16:14[Music]
16:16gunfire what was that who yeah yeah they
16:20shot him there seems to be a disconnect
16:24between Progressive police policy around
16:26people in crisis and the average cops
16:29inability sometimes to hold their
16:33fire even when the person's
16:35vulnerability couldn't be more
16:43obvious in response to the increase in
16:46interactions with people in crisis
16:48several Canadian police forces now use
16:51mobile crisis teams a mental health
16:54professional partnered with a police
16:56officer but nowhere are there enough
16:59team and they're never authorized as
17:01First Responders except in
17:05Hamilton I think what what makes us so
17:07unique is the fact that we are a 911
17:10responder so in a person's in a mental
17:12health crisis and a 9 911 is called
17:15we're able to be there and to be there
17:17within generally within
17:20minutes late in this evening shift a
17:22call about a young man who may be
17:25suicidal and is thinking of hurting his
17:27mother temp for thank you
17:29the mobile team moves carefully based on
17:32information from the 911 caller they
17:34even contact the young man's cell phone
17:38first hi U my name is Sarah I work with
17:41the rapper response team with Hamilton
17:42Police Service um we just got a call
17:45from somebody who's a bit concerned
17:47about you we're just a couple minutes
17:50away Sarah and police partner Terry have
17:53agreed to a meet outside the house
17:56difficult to imagine this low-key
17:58approach from many regular police
18:02[Music]
18:04units a lot of attention in the house
18:07with my mother she's very emotionally
18:10abusive I have had thoughts you know of
18:14taking a baseball bat and hitting her in
18:16the back of the head with it but it's
18:18something I always tell myself you know
18:20is it worth going to prison over and the
18:21answer is always no do you feel you need
18:24to go anywhere tonight like do you feel
18:26you need to be out of the house tonight
18:27to keep everybody safe no
18:30no Sarah is able to get the young man
18:33thinking about Solutions including
18:35counseling but if you need anybody to
18:37talk to give us a call all right and if
18:39you feel any frustration give us a call
18:41any time all right all right take care
18:43bye
18:44now we diverted this young man uh away
18:47from the criminal justice system we
18:49diverted him away from the hospital and
18:51now he's going to be getting some
18:53counseling which is exactly what he
18:54needs
18:56tonight but with budget con straints not
18:59even in Hamilton are you guaranteed to
19:01get a special team when you call 911
19:04because of a family member in
19:07crisis the reality is a lot of these
19:09things unfold very quickly so it's one
19:11of the reasons I think I have tended to
19:13go more for training because the reality
19:15is it's going to be the uniformed
19:18officer who the vast majority of the
19:19time is going to be the one dealing with
19:21the person in
19:24crisis an hour's Drive Northeast of
19:27Toronto in Ajax Ontario it's nearing the
19:30first anniversary of Michael mik's death
19:33in a police shooting his family gathers
19:36to remember a husband brother and
19:38favorite
19:39uncle he'd be downstairs just him and
19:42the kids hours playing all these silly
19:45little kid
19:47games 47-year-old Michael mizik suffered
19:51from seizures the result of a childhood
19:53brain injury he's in bed recovering from
19:56an episode on Monday morning December
19:58second
20:00[Music]
20:012013 I just heard Michael come out of
20:03the room I could hear his footsteps and
20:06he walked past me and when he walked
20:08past me I realized he was completely
20:10naked I was very unlike Michael Michael
20:12was very
20:15modest Michael Bolts out the door into Z
20:18degree weather pushing past his wife and
20:22sister-in-law and he was running very
20:24very fast something I had never seen
20:25before in my life it was basically
20:27delirium
20:29I was just in
20:32[Music]
20:35shock my sister called 911 there was
20:38many many calls to 911 you know man is
20:40naked in the street he's running
20:43naked Michael tells one motorist that
20:46he's running to his mother's in Miss
20:48Saga but that's 70 km away the man asks
20:52if Michael realizes he has no clothes on
20:56and he said uh Michael he said your
20:58brother was shaking he said and he said
21:00yeah thanks man I'm kind of cold I guess
21:03I am and that's when he started to come
21:07north not a block from home Michael
21:10begins banging on vehicle Windows
21:12perhaps looking for
21:14help so I
21:16immediately I knew something was off
21:20from down the street a neighbor calls
21:22911 and pulls into her driveway he came
21:26up on the driveway and banged on my
21:30window Shelly doesn't open the window
21:33and backs out of the driveway when
21:34Michael picks up a rock from her garden
21:37he picked it up and dropped it a couple
21:39of times and that oddly is a symptom of
21:42complex partial seizure picking things
21:44up and dropping them next Michael picks
21:46up a piece of patio furniture and pounds
21:49on Shell's door apparently trying to get
21:51in he's still holding a piece of it when
21:54police arrive the officers were out of
21:57the car guns dra on he was coming
21:59towards them I heard the shot or shots
22:03from the time the police officers pulled
22:05up uh we were told by the SIU that the
22:07GPS in the subject officer's car was
22:1110233 Michael was shot by 1023 42 twice
22:17the video we have of Michael sitting in
22:18the street crying and rocking is
22:2210234 it was 12
22:27seconds no one wants to see an officer
22:29hurt or killed most definitely but the
22:33morning of December 2nd that was not the
22:35case Michael needed help he needed an
22:37ambulance he needed Medical Care he
22:40didn't need two bullets through his
22:47[Music]
22:50chest police officers are so reluctant
22:53to back up I was one I understand that
22:57but sometimes
22:59back
23:01up hold the fort if you want till help
23:04comes former police chief Terry Coleman
23:07is a voice police listened to his 2014
23:11report on training for interactions with
23:13people in crisis was released at the
23:15national chief's conference Coleman
23:18would make deescalation skills a
23:20compulsory qualification for all police
23:23officers you have to complete it every 3
23:25years and you have to go through a
23:27testing proced procedure and if you do
23:30not pass that and meet the criteria then
23:35that would be like not qualifying with
23:36your handgun you'd have remedial
23:39training have a chance to retest and
23:43re-qualify or
23:45you wouldn't be on the
23:47[Music]
23:49street Coleman says killings of police
23:52like in Monon and Mayer Thorp may have
23:55swung the pendulum away from Public
23:57Safety toward towards officer Safety
23:59First real fear Amplified by aggressive
24:03police culture and training imported
24:06from South of the
24:13Border on the hill above Albuquerque
24:16Town Center striking proof of the
24:18economic crisis driving more and more
24:21people towards the edge
24:28Albuquerque is not the first place you
24:31choose to be homeless or mentally ill in
24:342014 the police department was put under
24:37Federal Department of Justice
24:39supervision after 26 shootings of
24:42civilians in 4
24:44years the most notorious a homeless
24:47mentally ill man camping above the city
24:50do
24:53it on the ground captured on police body
24:56cam the shooting would ricochet around
24:58the
25:03world the justification for shooting the
25:07man is holding two small camping knives
25:10still got the knives in his hand got the
25:11knives in his hand still got his knives
25:13in his
25:15hands exactly a year later Illinois
25:18based police training giant caliber
25:20press comes to
25:22Albuquerque they train 20,000 people a
25:25year including several hundred Canadian
25:28cops
25:29owner and chief trainer Jim Glennon is
25:32well aware of today's audience I was
25:35asked by a national news source said you
25:37know Albuquerque they're out of control
25:39they've shot all these people and
25:40nobody's been indicted any reason why I
25:42go yeah CU all the shoots were
25:45good well 25 are dead what does that
25:48tell you 12 of them
25:54missed and I'm not trying to be a
25:56smartass about it but if you're going to
25:57start shooting at somebody your goal is
25:59to stop that threat right well done it
26:01we take these sort of independent
26:03organizations particularly out of the
26:05United States that specialize in
26:08delivering officer safety survival
26:11schools weekends and what have you I
26:14think has heightened the sort of the
26:15whole attention to officer safety say
26:18what you'd say in real life ready
26:21go your hand drop your gun okay what do
26:24you want hands gun what what do you want
26:25me to do drop the gun I'm dropping it
26:27bang bang okay
26:29it's dangerously close to being a sort
26:31of a Fear Factor and and and very often
26:33an irrational Fear
26:36Factor produced before Glennon took over
26:38the company a caliber press video of a
26:41training exercise unintentionally helped
26:44spread what became a faulty piece of
26:46training Doctrine this was never
26:49intended as more than a demonstration of
26:51how quickly someone can move in ideal
26:53circumstances but the exercise somehow
26:56morphed into the now infamous 21t rule
27:00it would come up repeatedly in inquests
27:02as one reason an officer had to fire a
27:05minimum reactionary gap of 21 ft is
27:08required to react and deliver at least
27:11two rounds and to have enough time to
27:13move out of the attacker's
27:20path the 21t rule got into officers
27:24heads particularly problematic when
27:26running alongside another piece of
27:28common training Dogma lethal Force as an
27:32officer's only reliable defense against
27:34a knife or other edged
27:36[Music]
27:39weapon most of the time when police are
27:42exposed to a sharp edged weapon
27:43perceived or otherwise they're going to
27:45pull their gun and's advancement or not
27:47they will discharge their weapon to
27:49prevent being at risk I'm suggesting and
27:51I'd state that under oath that that's
27:52not valid suddenly Patrick comes at me
27:55and just for purposes of trains and
27:56angle one strip my hands are on the
27:57weapon like nobody touches me Steve
27:59Somerville is a Canadian private safety
28:02trainer working this day with security
28:04staff at Toronto East General Hospital I
28:07was with 24 years with the Toronto
28:09Police Service I finished off actually
28:11as a Staff Sergeant at the Intero police
28:12College you may be shocked to know that
28:15we do more here today in sharp ditch
28:16weapon defense than the entire
28:18curriculum at the current Police Academy
28:20in interial more depth more detail more
28:24options drop the weapon drop it drop it
28:27please officers are generally trained
28:29today that a sharp edge weapon doesn't
28:31always have to be a knife but anything
28:33that cut or puncture skin is probably
28:35one of the highest level of threats that
28:37you can be exposed to generally speaking
28:39you're taught that hand toand defensive
28:41options are not an option there is no
28:43negotiation there no wiggle room that's
28:44the highest level of threat that a
28:46police officer can face it's a Firearms
28:50situation we need to change the the
28:52Paradigm how police are taught so we can
28:55likely start to get some different
28:56results
29:00the point is not to make police choose
29:02between their own life and anothers but
29:04to back up from the moment of deadly
29:07force to buy more time so the Collision
29:09never happens it can be
29:14done like in this British video of a man
29:17wielding a
29:18machete do you think that man would have
29:20survived in North America
29:23no no
29:30from Rialto California the first ever
29:33evidence-based study into a
29:35technological remedy for excessive use
29:37of force body cams to record every
29:41police interaction with the public I
29:44happen to be doing some graduate work
29:45over at the University of Cambridge at
29:47The Institute of criminology and that's
29:50about the same time that the Advent of
29:52the first wave of body cameras started
29:54to come
29:56about we partnered up to do a year-long
30:00randomized control trial to really test
30:03the impacts that those body cameras
30:05would have on police
30:07officers the results for the experiment
30:09were I think far better than we actually
30:12expected
30:18well we had about an 88% decrease in
30:21complaints against police officers and
30:23about a 60% reduction in the amount of
30:25times that we used Force hey Carlos
30:28what's going on why' you hit the door
30:30cuz my all crying scream they're both
30:33scared of you there's a lot of holes I
30:35don't think that knocking or trying to
30:37get the door open requires that many
30:39holes in the door what are they saying
30:41they're stating that you you're saying
30:43that you're God or something that's not
30:45true
30:47diagnosed whether it's a mentally ill
30:49person or not I think that the general
30:51interaction with uh an officer and a
30:54citizen is going to be a lot better I
30:56think they'll increase their
30:56communication skills and be more willing
30:59to talk to the
31:01individual in Rialto they regularly use
31:04body cam video for training
31:07[Music]
31:11purposes from the UK an amazing video
31:14for edged weapon
31:18training London Police engaged with a
31:21distraught man wielding not scissors or
31:23a knife but a machete all captured on a
31:27smartphone phone from across the
31:29street his ability to move is not
31:31completely obstructed by either the
31:33officers or by the vehicles but he is
31:35more or less
31:38surrounded you'd see the man piercing
31:40around on the street or moving forwards
31:41and backwards side to side front and
31:43back each of them trying to continue to
31:46verbally deescalate the situation over a
31:48period of time you could probably say
31:50they've contended him without
31:52restraining him and they keep this
31:54situation going backwards and forwards
31:55for some minutes whilst other officers
31:58are bringing uh what we would call uh
32:00public order shields uh to the to the
32:02location and in a coordinated movement
32:04they move towards him um so that there's
32:06no way he's going to be able to use that
32:07weapon to go anywhere else he's he's end
32:09up placed on the ground with the use of
32:10the shields the weapons taken from him
32:12and then he's stud up and handcuffed and
32:14DET
32:16tent the incident ends with a man taken
32:18to
32:20hospital do you think that man would
32:22have survived in North America no no he
32:24wouldn't have survived wouldn't have
32:26survived couple of minutes
32:31probably so what's to be learned from
32:36that well it is doable without firing
32:39your
32:42firearm in the UK only a small group of
32:45Specialists carry firearms so police
32:48trained to handle every situation
32:50without lethal force deescalation is at
32:54the heart of all training
32:58[Music]
33:06all right Paul Paul we're the police
33:09we're here to
33:11help
33:12Paul help
33:19ready come and talk to us
33:24P help me
33:27help
33:30okay during the next several minutes as
33:32the man keeps raging police remain calm
33:36put the hammer down and we can come and
33:38help you please help me please help me
33:41put the hammer down and I'll come and
33:43help you well done Paul I don't need to
33:45hurt you do I okay so move away from the
33:48shield for me I'm just going to keep
33:51coming toward you with the shield so
33:53that you don't make any sudden movements
33:56we're not going to put your arms out to
33:57the side I'm not going to hurt you I'm
33:59going to put this up against you just to
34:01make sure that you're not going to hurt
34:02us okay help please check thank you very
34:08much andex reform outside for a
34:14debrief it was a case for me of trying
34:16to gain his eye contact trying to speak
34:19to me rather than the other person that
34:21he could see in the room if all of us
34:23had been shouting at Paul that would
34:25have just made his condition worse
34:27because he's already hearing voices in
34:28his head you've got five or six people
34:30shouting barking commands at him that
34:33could have tipped him over the edge so
34:34the decision we made before we go in
34:36there' be one person speaking so that
34:38Paul can focus on that one
34:41person their sites are so set on
34:44deescalation in the UK that Firearms
34:47aren't even taken to an incident without
34:50formal consent from a senior
34:52Commander because once you've deployed
34:55the weapon actually are you creating a
34:58situation where you know someone being
35:00shot is what's going to
35:02happen away from the adrenaline rush of
35:05the action the command log demands pages
35:09of thoughtful assessment before Firearms
35:12are
35:13authorized by Simply Having a process
35:15where you are authorizing things it
35:18gives time it gives space to try and uh
35:22deescalate the
35:25situation imagine if the street cars
35:28Samy yatim was riding have been
35:31traveling down a British Street
35:43[Music]
35:53[Music]
36:01tased as
36:05well in that scenario a knife we
36:08probably may not even deploy Firearms to
36:11that and we would give that person space
36:14um I think we would only intervene with
36:17a firearm if that person was actually
36:19then threatening uh another person
36:22actually was holding them hostage and
36:24and was going to harm them um and even
36:27then we would as the the sort of
36:29expression goes we would play it
36:31long not to say interactions between
36:34police and the mentally ill are perfect
36:36in the UK their big issue in 2015 still
36:40too many ill people taken into custody
36:43instead of to
36:44treatment radical attempts to solve that
36:47problem could help armed officers
36:49everywhere hold their
36:54fire in leester they partner a up with a
36:58mental health professional marrying the
37:00two Information Systems female on the
37:03line say she's suicidal doesn't know
37:05what to do um apparently she's got a CPN
37:08and she's with the crisis team but she's
37:10not
37:11engaging um got a date of birth for her
37:15yeah she's open to Services didn't
37:18attend her last appointment on the 25th
37:20of
37:22February State having thoughts of taking
37:24all her medication or slitting her
37:26throat she states without her partner
37:29she would she would be dead okay there
37:32is an ongoing increased high risk of her
37:35taking over dose of her prescribed
37:37medication as her way of self Haring
37:40okay high
37:42risk because they only leave the office
37:45for key calls bler triage can manage 40
37:48incidents a
37:50[Music]
37:53day when boyfriends come to find her
37:55she's jumping out of traffic
37:59um threatening threatening to jump in
38:01front of cars you come in grab a Pew
38:06which is so much better than her so
38:09what's happened today um stop taking my
38:12tablets I have mad mood swings and my
38:15partner can't cope with it so he was on
38:18about leaving and then I threatened to
38:21kill myself at that point in time was it
38:23that you wanted to actually die and
38:25never W up I just wanted to get out just
38:29stop yeah just do you know what your
38:32tablets are for yeah they keep me calm
38:35and to keep me straight I didn't want to
38:38be on tablets for the rest of my life
38:40basically so I tried to fight it and I
38:43just made myself worse I know what I've
38:45done and I know that I need to take my
38:47tablets and I know that it's not right
38:50and this is what happen thank you so
38:52much it's all right not a problem go
38:55home yeah let me come and SP wait to
38:57Grandma and
39:01boyfriend not a problem get in the warm
39:04yes you going to get in the warm now
39:06okay a simple but strong formula the
39:10power of information coupled with a
39:12fixed focus on
39:16deescalation and when do you guys
39:18graduate next week next week next week
39:21hopefully game's on but first Canadian
39:25police have to solve major problems with
39:31[Music]
39:35recruiting fundamentally changing police
39:38interactions with people in crisis
39:41starts with recruiting Public Safety
39:44expert Terry Coleman says police are too
39:46often in a rush to fill positions I'm
39:49not satisfied that police agencies
39:52routinely hire the right people I don't
39:55think sometimes they pay enough
39:57attention to some cautions that are put
40:00up by for example psychological
40:02screening or even polygraph Integrity uh
40:06screening um and they quote unquote take
40:09a
40:10chance after Sami yatim's death an
40:14independent review recommended major
40:16changes to recruiting including
40:19preference for higher education and
40:21experience in mental health as of autumn
40:242015 a work in progress game is on in
40:28some Canadian cities use of force
40:30training is being overhauled integrating
40:33deescalation get out of my area ma' is
40:36that a knife in your hands working
40:38towards a different trained Instinct on
40:40the street get away we want to have a
40:42conversation with you but we can't do
40:43that with a knife in your hands can you
40:45drop the knife for us so we can talk you
40:47got to do what you got to do to help
40:49people at moment are in crisis stay
40:52grounded and don't let emotion take over
40:55don't let fear take over
40:59and remember that the person in crisis
41:01could be someone you
41:04love they should have just spoke with
41:06them take the time there was no rush
41:08that morning you really don't realize
41:11the impact until it happens to you and
41:14um you definitely don't want to see
41:15another family go through what we did
41:18it's it's it's horror it's absolute
41:21horror and you just it changes you
41:24forever and I kept going over my notes
41:27and I people kept telling me to not go
41:28my Jackie Christopher's younger son
41:31still dreams about his big brother
41:33O'Brien I saw him there and I was
41:35surprised to see him he looked all
41:37Dapper and stuff and then like I said
41:38you know I'm so glad that you're here
41:40you know and then I was like in my dream
41:43I felt like I was about to cry or
41:44something and like you know I was trying
41:46to hold it in trying to hold it in and
41:48not
41:49cry I I think you've chosen a wonderful
41:52profession Paul was always extremely
41:54happy when he was working on animation
41:56three times a year at the Vancouver film
41:58school's classical animation grad David
42:01Boyd presents an award in his son's
42:05honor it's a way of reminding people
42:08that Paul was much more than what police
42:11saw If Only They had managed to hold
42:13their fire to find out he was one of the
42:16best animators in the city and had a
42:19career and was admired by everyone and
42:21was this this really wonderful guy to
42:23work
42:25with Paul was portrayed as being some
42:27kind of brute instead of actually
42:29realizing that there was a a person
42:31there a really valuable person
42:37[Music]
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