March 28, 2012Media Contact: Pastor Kenneth Glasgow

Mom Called Police To Help

Mentally Ill Son, Not Kill Him

5 Major Alabama Mental Health Institutions Closing Down – Police Kill Unarmed Mentally Ill Man

Dr. Kenneth Glasgow, founder of The Ordinary People Society, Inc. (TOPS), working with his brother, NationalPeople are dying! Proper training, accountability and transparency is the urgent call!” In addition to the delugeth in Headland, Alabama concerning the insensitive, senseless

– Email: Topssociety@Yahoo.Com

Action Network Founder, Rev. Al Sharpton on the Trayvon Martin case, also met with Dr. Martin Luther King, III,

Rev. Jesse Jackson, NAACP Chair, Ben Jealous, Judge Greg Mathis, Michael Eric Dyson and Mark Thompson of Sirius

Radio, after attending the funeral of his mother, Mrs. Ada Sharpton, has asked several legislators such as Sen.

Harrianne Smith, Rep. Dexter Grimsley, Dr. Yvonne Kennedy of Mobile, Alabama and many other elected officials

and representatives to sponsor a bill requiring mandatory use of deadly force yearly recertification training for

police officers in Alabama. “We also need better standards for the Open Records Act in Alabama. Glasgow states,

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of support received by Dr. Glasgow, Rev. Al Sharpton, after eulogizing his mother, told the father, mother and sister

of the victim that he is backing is brother 100%.

O’Patrick Humphrey, an unarmed mentally ill man was a victim of excessive force when he was gunned down by

police officers several weeks ago. Had the officers been properly trained there would have been no reason for

O’Patick Humphrey to die. A police officer should not have a firearm as his/her one and only option in dealing

with any citizen, especially the mentally challenged. Had the other options available to officers who are proper

training been used, a resolution may have been achieved without the loss of O’Patrick Humphrey’s life.

5 major Alabama mental health institutions are closing down leaving the patients with nowhere to go for help.

Police officers may have to interact with these patients as they transition into mainstream life with family and

friends, while some may even be left to live on the street. Alabama correction officers work without firearms and

are required to attend mandatory excessive force training in addition to training in dealing with and restraining

mental health patients who are incarcerated in jails and prisons. However, Alabama police officers, who perform

their work with firearms/guns, and are called to resolve issues involving the mentally ill, under current Alabama

legislation, are not required to have any mandatory training in use of deadly force.

A march and rally scheduled for Friday, April 14 was very successful with hundreds attending of all races.

death of O’Patrick Humphrey, to address the issue and introduce a bill that will put some mechanisms in place to

assist police with handling excessive force situations in general and with the mentally ill. The O’Patrick Humphrey

bill package will bring about accountability, transparency and public safety for all.

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