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In November 2022, Abdullah Darwich, a nonverbal autistic 19-year-old left his home in Mississauga, Ont. He made his way to a pile of leaves, which h

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In November 2022, Abdullah Darwich, a nonverbal autistic 19-year-old left his home in Mississauga, Ont. He made his way to a pile of leaves, which he began playing in, dressed only in his underwear. A worried neighbor made a phone call to the police. Despite Darwich being registered to the Peel Police Vulnerable Persons Registry, Darwichs father arrived soon after to find his son bleeding, terrified and surrounded by police.

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office will pay part of a $1.25 million settlement in the case of Eric Parsa and an undisclosed sum to the family of Tre’mall McGee.

The term has been used to explain why a severely agitated person suddenly dies after an aggressive, often violent and hyperactive episode.

“He didn't have those kind of words to say, I can't breathe. That's such an abstract thing, you know, breathing,” Eric's mother said.

Officers sat on the autistic teen’s back for nine minutes before he died. They claim they needed to do so because he posed a threat.

Eric Parsa died after police put him in a chokehold. Now, the DOJ says that the officers' actions likely violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Eric Parsa’s family disputes a coroner's ruling that his death was accidental, saying it should be classified as a homicide.