Her Former Colleagues Called in a "Wellness Check." Then Police Shot Her to Death.

[Nevilledog]

https://theintercept.com/2020/08/22/police-shooting-wellness-check-sandy-guardiola/

NEUROLOGIST EUGENE TOLOMEO documented an appointment with his patient Sandy Guardiola that took place on October 3, 2017. “She smiles often,” he wrote. She was in “good spirits.”

Guardiola, a parole officer in upstate New York, was scheduled to start work at a new office location following a four-week medical leave after a car accident. She asked the doctor to sign paperwork allowing her to return to her job. She was, he noted, “excited about going back to work.”

When Guardiola’s two adult children spoke to her that week, they said she seemed well. To this day, they do not understand why a police officer was sent to their mother’s apartment in Canandaigua, New York, to carry out a wellness check on October 4. Neither of them had been called, although they were listed as her emergency contacts at work. All they know is that Scott Kadien of the Canandaigua Police Department entered Guardiola’s home without her permission and shot her three times while she was in her bed. She died in the hospital that afternoon.

The police shooting of a Latina woman in a small upstate New York town, with a population that is 96 percent white, did not make national news. Even local coverage was scant. A grand jury declined to charge Kadien, who claimed that Guardiola shot at him first (she legally owned a gun, owing to her job).

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[Faux pas]

1. Kickin' with disgust!

And extreme

[wendyb-NC]

2. WTF

What insanity?

[soothsayer]

3. Horrifying

[PatSeg]

4. What the hell?!?!

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Very strange story with a tragic ending. And no answers.

[BComplex]

6. THIS is why we have to rewrite the laws that give one class of unqualified Americans the right

to murder anyone they please with no consequences.

This has to stop. It could happen to you, to your child, to your spouse, to your parents and siblings. It's insane that there is this loophole.

Many police officers have very little training...usually about 4 months, nationally. What is it that is supposed to make them such great judges of life and death in 4 months? It appears that all their training is designed to make them paranoid that every person on the street is out to kill them, and they have to act first.

[mr_lebowski]

8. I reject the entire notion that the lives of police officers are considered to have greater value

than everyone else's.

Which is kind of a basic premise underlying everything they do and put into policies and procedures.

I think it's pretty much bullshit and at the root of most of the problems.

[BComplex]

9. Or that they have better judgment. I totally agree.

[Maraya1969]

7. The "wellness check" call was made by co-workers from a previous place where she said she was

treated with racial discrimination.

And THIS:

"Other troubling details haunt the scene. Why, for example, did the officer call for police backup after the shooting, before calling for the emergency medical technicians who were on standby across the street? There was a 10-minute gap, while Guardiola was still alive yet bleeding to death, between the shots firing and the medics being summoned. Why was Guardiola put in handcuffs? “They were supposed to be there for her wellness, not to apprehend a criminal,” her 24-year-old daughter, Alysa, told me."