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Council Member Schulmann addresses the case of Win Rozario and systemic failures in mental health crisis response
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Council Member Lynn Schulmann discusses the case of Win Rozario, a constituent who was killed during a mental health crisis response. She emphasizes the failures in the mental health system, including both the emergency response and the prior attempts to get treatment.
- Schulmann states that the system failed Rosario, who called 911 during a mental health crisis and was subsequently killed.
- She highlights that Rozario family had previously tried to get him treatment in the hospital system, which also failed him.
- Schulmann expresses her commitment to addressing the broken mental health system.
Lynn Schulmann
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K.
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Thank you.
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Thank you very much.
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And I wanna I wanna thank council member Batya for a seat for trading with me because I I have a hearing I wanna go to.
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But it was very important for me to speak today.
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I have a a little bit of a statement, and I have some questions.
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So my state so when Rosario was a constituent of mine, and the system failed him.
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I said that on March 27th when he was killed, and I'm seeing it again today.
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He this is an individual who knew he was going through a mental health crisis, whose family knew he was going through a mental health crisis, called 911, and he and he got killed as a result of that.
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That should not have happened.
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And, you know, the mental health system is broken.
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And separate from that, his his family had indicated that they had tried to get him treatment prior to that call.
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In this in in our hospital system, and that failed him as well.
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So this a separate from the be heard and everything else.
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We have to really take hold of that, and I'm somebody that's very committed to that.
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So but I have some questions about the whole be heard system and the response and everything else.
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So one is, I heard previously that there is a difference between the definition between FDNY and NYPD of an emotionally disturbed person.
