Disability Advocates: Appeal Over S.F. Police Shooting Puts ADA at Risk

[KamaAina]

We will be having a rally at City Hall's North Light Court at 9 on Thursday morning to protest this.

http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/09/disability-advocates-appeal-over-s-f-police-shooting-puts-ada-at-risk

The ACLU and 42 other organizations are calling on the city of San Francisco to drop its appeal pending before the U.S. Supreme Court regarding a 2008 officer-involved shooting of a woman with a diagnosed mental illness.

The groups wrote an open letter (read below) to Mayor Ed Lee and City Attorney Dennis Herrera on Jan. 8. Each member of the Board of Supervisors received a copy, as did San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr and Police Commission President Suzy Loftus....

The holding that the ADA applies to arrests is law in the 9th Circuit, but Sheehan’s civil trial is on hold while the city’s appeal is before the Supreme Court. Oral arguments in the case are expected to be scheduled for late March or early April.

There are two questions before the Supreme Court: whether the ADA “requires law enforcement officers to provide accommodations to an armed, violent, and mentally ill suspect in the course of bringing the suspect into custody,” and whether the officers’ second entry into Sheehan’s apartment was unreasonable under the Forth (sic) Amendment “by reason of the anticipated resistance of an armed and violent suspect within.”