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Mental Health Awareness and Law Enforcement

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Mental Health Awareness and Law Enforcement

This weekend, Chicago Police fatally shot Tywon Jones, a 16-year-old alleged to have shot at pedestrians in Lawndale before firing at officers. Jones’ stepfather has confirmed that Jones was bipolar. The Afternoon Shift talks to Ashley Fontaine from the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Greater Chicago’s Crisis Intervention Team, a program that trains officers about how to recognize mental illness and defuse potentially dangerous situations.

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