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“People of color who are mentally ill, or whose mental situation is unstable, are at greater risk of being subjected to police brutality.” & “Depending upon the racial identity of the suspect… police appear to forgo the medical modality in favor of criminal… modalities."

Racializing Disability, Disabling Race: Policing Race and Mental Status
Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law
Vol. 15 Issue 1, pp. 1–64,
2010
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