The lawsuit says participation in Arrive Together is an acknowledgment by Bayonne for “the need for further training and alternative approaches to handling police encounters with emotionally disturbed individuals.'
when he came at them with a knife has filed a federal lawsuit, claiming the officers were ill-equipped to deal with someone enduring a mental health crisis.
The police body camera footage shows that Ballance and Tavares entered the home and made contact with Lee Waskiewicz, who told them he was carrying a knife, and appeared in mental distress as he yelled at the officers from the top of a stairway. Bayonne police had a “lack of, or otherwise inadequate, policies of responding to mental health crises with a disproportionate use of force and lack of otherwise necessary and appropriate training and supervision of personnel in dealing with such encounters; as well as failing to train and dispatch specialized personnel to respond to such situations and to otherwise properly and effectively administer crisis intervention training as a matter of policy, practice and procedure,” the lawsuit said.
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