After the May 24 school shooting, mental health help is now pouring into Uvalde, where a fourth of residents are uninsured and counseling options are few and far between.
Jails should be equipped to prevent what happened to Marvin Scott
Police custody should be where homicides are prevented, not committed
Renee White presses a photo of Marvin Scott III on the windows of the Collin County Courthouse while demanding the officers present arrest the officers involved in Marvin s in-custody death after a press conference on April 28, 2021. (Shelby Tauber/Special Contributor)(Shelby Tauber / Special Contributor)
After learning what caused Marvin Scott III’s death, we are neither comforted nor confident that the case is being handled well. In fact, judging by Collin County Medical Examiner Dr. William Rohr’s report, things have been badly mishandled from the start.
Martinez had been working on other national task forces, including with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and with the secretary of health and human services. He also has been working with the chair of the task force, Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine, on how to increase the number of minorities working in health care.
Martinez will continue to be the executive director of the Hogg Foundation while working on the COVID-19 health equity task force, which he s been told could last for a few weeks or up to two years. He will use vacation time and personal time to for task force work.