Youngkin has a justice system in Virginia that he should be focusing on, says _Jahan
, but as Christie Thompson wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post last week, that doesn’t tell the full story.[I]t was not just a lack of services that killed Otieno. A crisis team was present during his initial encounter with police, who brought him to a specialized receiving center. And he was in the care of a state hospital when he died. Yet being admitted for treatment did not protect him from what prosecutors say was a deadly use of police force.
More mental health care is no simple panacea. In my years of covering mental health care and our justice system, psychologists and disability rights advocates have told me that getting people the care they need requires not only a ramping up of mental health resources but also rethinking how those people can still be criminalized every step of the way.
Put another way, bias can play a major role in the treatment of mental health patients. If Youngkin weren’t so, perhaps he’d be better equipped to handle issues of unfair justice that lie at his own feet. This is part of the reason that the Rev. Al Sharpton name-checked the governor — and referred to his potential White House campaign — at Otieno’s funeral., “than you wearing a vest and campaign smile when you got folks being stampeded by law enforcement. ... Mr. Governor, on your way to wherever you’re going in the future, what about Irvo?”
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