{"id":5515,"date":"2023-07-10T15:11:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T20:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/07\/10\/family-of-san-antonio-woman-shot-by-police-during-mental-health-episode-sues-city\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T15:11:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T20:11:25","slug":"family-of-san-antonio-woman-shot-by-police-during-mental-health-episode-sues-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/07\/10\/family-of-san-antonio-woman-shot-by-police-during-mental-health-episode-sues-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of San Antonio woman shot by police during mental-health episode sues city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>         The four children of Melissa Perez \u2014 the 46-year-old woman shot and killed by a trio of San Antonio police officers last month during a mental health crisis \u2014 have sued the city and the officers involved. SAPD&#8217;s &#8220;formal and informal&#8221; policies and the policymakers&#8217; past failures to hold cops accountable have created a culture in which officers &#8220;engage in excessive, unreasonable and unconstitutional use of force,&#8221; according to the family&#8217;s petition, filed in federal court in San Antonio. &#8220;SAPD has a culture that is rampant throughout the department such that uniformed officers regularly do not call on the mental health team to respond when a person is experiencing a mental health crisis,&#8221; the plaintiffs maintain in the filing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The four children of Melissa Perez \u2014 the 46-year-old woman shot and killed by a trio of San Antonio police officers last month during a mental health crisis \u2014 have sued the city and the officers involved. SAPD&#8217;s &#8220;formal and informal&#8221; policies and the policymakers&#8217; past failures to hold cops accountable have created a culture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}