Tanisha Anderson, a 37-year-old Cleveland mother with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, died after Cleveland police responding to a Nov. 12, 2014, call for assistance from the family to take Tanisha to the hospital for evaluation tragically mishandled their response. After Anderson panicked and resisted, she was thrown to the pavement and a police officer kneeled on her as he tried to restrain her, and she later died. Anderson’s “sudden death associated with physical restraint in a prone position” was ruled a homicide by the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office. But the officers involved were not prosecuted in her death based on findings that a heart condition and medications also contributed to her death .

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