This is Crazy: Criminalizing Mental Health • TRAILER • BRAVE NEW FILMS

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They all knew that I was suffering from a mental health problem. If I had been divertedto a mental hospital, I wouldn't have a felony on my record.So whether we like it or not, police officers have become the first responders to mentalhealth crises in the neighborhood.So, we're seeing people living with mental illness are being locked up because of theirmental illness.Please, sir! Please, don't do this! (screams)If you were um, fighting back, they maybe try to get you upside down -any way to restrainyou. And sometimes people will have a fractured arm by it, if they was real rough and you'regoing off and you're having a manic moment and you hit one of them, they might snuffyou, kick you.Not that we need to excuse crime or exc...