“Why didn’t they tase him? Why didn’t they shoot him with a rubber bullet? You are big police officers with massive amounts of resources. Come on. Give me a break”
Photo: PeopleImages/Getty Images When Golda Barton’s 13-year-old son, who has Asperger syndrome, was suffering a mental-health crisis last Friday night, she did what many Americans do in the face of an emergency: She called 911. Specifically, she says, she called and asked for a crisis-intervention team to escort her son to a hospital. Instead, Salt Lake City police officers arrived on the scene, and an officer repeatedly shot her son as he tried to run away.
When two Salt Lake City officers arrived on the scene, they instructed Barton to wait outside before they entered the front door of her home. Then, less than five minutes later, Barton says she heard an officer say, “get down on the ground,” followed by a flurry of gunshots. According to a GoFundMe that Barton created to raise money for her son’s medical bills, Cameron is still recovering in the hospital after sustaining serious injuries to his intestines, bladder, shoulder, and both ankles.
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