A 13-year-old boy with autism is recovering after being shot by police in Glendale, Utah on Friday night, CBS affiliate KUTV reports. The boy, Linden Cameron, is still in the hospital after suffering injuries to his shoulder, both ankles, intestine, and bladder, his mother told KUTV in an interview Sunday.
Golda Barton said she called police and asked for a crisis intervention team because her son was having a mental breakdown.
The mother said she told officers that her son, who has Asperger’s, needed to be transported to the hospital for treatment. “This is how to deal with people with mental health issues. So, you call them, and they’re supposed to come out and be able to deescalate a situation using the most minimal force possible,” Barton told KUTV…. Read More Here!
A 13-year-old boy with autism is recovering after being shot by police in Glendale, Utah on Friday night, CBS affiliate KUTV reports. The boy, Linden Cameron, is still in the hospital after suffering injuries to his shoulder, both ankles, intestine, and bladder, his mother told KUTV in an interview Sunday.
Golda Barton said she called police and asked for a crisis intervention team because her son was having a mental breakdown.
The mother said she told officers that her son, who has Asperger’s, needed to be transported to the hospital for treatment. “This is how to deal with people with mental health issues. So, you call them, and they’re supposed to come out and be able to deescalate a situation using the most minimal force possible,” Barton told KUTV…. Read More Here!
