By Michael Nam
As violent and racist policing practices towards the Black community have sparked a national dialog, persons with disabilities have been pressing for that conversation to include their underrepresented communities as well.
The issue came to the forefront with a recent Supreme Court ruling that granted two officers immunity for entering the San Francisco group home where Teresa Sheehan resided and shooting her five times when she threatened them with a knife. Sheehan had been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, and while the Supreme Court concluded the police did not violate the Fourth Amendment, the question of whether or not the Americans With Disabilities Act applied to the situation was left as a question to return to the lower courts, according to ABC7 News in San Francisco.
