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") } }) ev.preventDefault(); }); 1 Denise Paley holds up a photograph of her son, Ellis Tibere, at a virtual public hearing last month. Paley is pushing for more mental health training for police officers a little over a year after Tibere randomly attacked a woman in a Westport parking lot during an apparent mental health crisis. Image capture from CT-N ) Guilford — It was the evening of Jan. 5 last year that Denise Paley walked into the Guilford Police Department (GPD) headquarters. Her 18-year-old son, Ellis Tibere, had left the house around noon, ostensibly to meet friends...

Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Victoria Mitchell wishes police would have had the full picture of her son’s struggles with mental illness and reacted differently before an officer shot and killed him last year in Ansonia, Connecticut. Her son, Michael Gregory, had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and attempted suicide several times. He was in crisis when he was shot on Jan. 2, 2020, while charging officers with a knife, after telling them they were going to have to shoot him. Mitchell, a nurse who cares for people with mental illness, supports some parts of a proposed statewi...

HARTFORD, Conn. – Victoria Mitchell wishes police would have had the full picture of her son's struggles with mental illness and reacted differe ...

Some police departments around the U.S. are expanding the use of voluntary registries of disabled people to include those with mental illness. It's part of an effort to improve how police interact with people with mental illness and avoid deadly shootings by officers.

Victoria Mitchell wishes police would have had the full picture of her son’s struggles with mental illness and reacted differently before an officer shot