(ThyBlackMan.com) “Mental illness should not be your ticket to death.” This was what one grieving parent told a phalanx of reporters a year ago in Virginia. Her son had serious mental health challenges. Yet he died at the hands of law enforcement. We’ve seen endless variations of this tragic pattern of death in Los Angeles almost always as in Virginia at the hands of the LAPD or the L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputies. The tragedy happened yet again with the slaying by LAPD officers of a young woman in Panorama City. Officers claimed the woman had a knife and threatened them and family
