milwaukee police said dontre had a prior history of arrests and they claimed the arrests were directly connected to dontre's mental health issue. >> was any of that -- >> none of it's true. dontre hadn't robbed nobody. but dontre in 2016 was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic. and dontre never tried to hurt anybody -- >> there's an assumption that everybody with mental health issues can turn violent. >> right. >> that's not the case overwhelmingly. >> no, it's not. >> the bigger question here is why are the cops the first responders to so many things that don't involve crime? too often the presence of police criminalizes people who may just be hanging out on a park bench or just having a bad day or may just be in crisis. in 2017 mental illness was a factor in 25% of police shootings. >> this was a couple of weeks before he died. >> wow. you know, the thing i noticed in all these pictures, he's smiling. >> that was his uniqueness.
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