Robert Gehrke: Training, department policy and common sense failed as officers used unnecessary force on a woman who posed no threat. It’s up to Sim Gill to seek justice.
Training, department policy and common sense failed as officers used unnecessary force on a woman who posed no threat. It’s up to Sim Gill to seek justice.Her name was Megan Joyce Mohn.
Around 3 a.m. on Jan. 11, dispatchers got a call that, based on what one officer is heard saying in the, Mohn was trying to get into the Marathon Petroleum refinery and running in circles in traffic while swinging two sticks at cars. At that point, any threat this roughly 120-pound woman posed was neutralized. It should have been the end, but it wasn’t.
She was taken to Salt Lake Regional Hospital in critical condition. Seventeen days later she was transferred to intensive care where she died on Jan. 30.You might ask: How, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers, did it get to this point?Police are trained — over and over — to de-escalate encounters, but these officers did not. In fact, they escalated, provoking a woman who was already handcuffed and unstable.
Officers’ actions are often excused because they are expected to make split-second decisions. This was not a split-second decision. It unfolded over eight minutes.
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