Bodycam video shows police fatally shooting New Jersey woman whose family told 911 she was having a mental health crisis
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Body-camera footage showing the fatal police shooting of Victoria Lee, a 25-year-old Asian woman whose brother had called 911 for medical assistance during her mental health crisis, was released Friday by New Jersey authorities.
Body camera footage was released Friday showing the fatal police shooting of Victoria Lee, a 25-year-old woman whose brother had called 911 for medical help during her mental health crisis in Fort Lee, New Jersey last month. At least five Fort Lee police officers responded to the family’s apartment on July 28, according to the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office. After they were unable to get inside, one of the officers broke open the apartment door, footage of the incident released by the attorney general’s office shows. Within five seconds of forcing her front door open, one officer shot Lee in the chest, killing her, footage shows. Before her mental health crisis, Lee was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Henry Cho, an attorney for Lee’s family, said at a press conference Tuesday. Lee was “harmless,” Cho said. “Despite their efforts to prevent escalation and clearly communicating her nonviolent nature, the police responded aggressively and forcefully entered the apartment and fatally shot Victoria, who was holding a plastic water jar at the time,” Cho said. An investigation into the incident comes amid growing scrutiny around how police around the country respond to mental health crises. Just three weeks before Lee was shot, Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman in Illinois who had called 911 for help, was also shot in her home. The day before Massey was killed, her mother called 911 and said her daughter was having a mental breakdown but wasn’t dangerous.
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