Around 3 am Monday morning, deputies from the Alameda County Sheriff’s department responded to a mental health call at Anthony Anderson’s San Leandro home. According to the Sheriff’s department, the 40 year-old Anderson was holding an object the officers thought was a weapon. They shot him twice.
Cat Brooks is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Anti-Police Terror Project. She says Anderson’s killing was preventable.
“Alameda County needs to fully fund so that there’s 24/7, 365 non-carceral, non-police, non-sheriff responses to community crisis. That includes mental health, domestic violence, substance overutilization. There’s just no reason to send badges and guns to these kinds of situations,” Brooks says…