A bill seeks to limit when police can use lethal force.
Rep. Jen Dailey-Provost, D-Salt Lake City, is sponsoring the legislation. It aims to prevent police from shooting someone having a suicidal crisis as long as they aren’t a threat to someone else.
Rae Duckworth, an activist with Black Lives Matter Utah, helped Dailey-Provost present the bill. Officer Garrett Safely killed Duckworth’s cousin, Bobby, in Carbon County in 2019. Safely was responding to a call about a suicidal man.
“If this [bill] was active prior to Sept. 10, 2019, it could have saved Bobby’s life and encouraged Officer Safely to utilize less than lethal options and take necessary steps to conserve a life,” Duckworth said.
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Zack Snyder Left ‘Justice League’ After Losing ‘The Will to Fight’ With Studio After Daughter’s Death
“Having those conversations in the middle of it really became … I was like, ‘Really? ” director tells Vanity FairBrian Welk | February 22, 2021 @ 9:21 AM Last Updated: February 22, 2021 @ 9:31 AM
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Zack Snyder has explained the real reason he left working on “Justice League,” saying that after his daughter’s death in 2017, he “lost the will to fight” any additional battles with Warner Bros. over creative control of the film.
Synder and his wife Deborah Snyder’s daughter Autumn died of suicide at 20 years old after struggling with depression. The director told Vanity Fair ahead of the release of the Snyder Cut of “Justice League” that arguing over the film didn’t feel worth it.