Cambridge to launch external review of police department after shooting of Sayed Faisal

Review will examine the fatal encounter as well as what changes to police training, policies and protocols could prevent such incidents.

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#News #CambridgeMA #CambridgeDay #PoliceShooting #MentalHealth β€” Reporter Sue Reinert is giving you the most local look at the response to the police shooting of 20-year-old Arif #SayedFaisal. A Cambridge office, now on paid leave, shot #Faisal Jan. 4 after a neighbor saw him outside cutting himself with glass and a large knife. #Police say he didn’t to respond to non-lethal methods. #Protesters say Faisal wasn’t a threat and #LeathalForce shouldn’t have been used. Read: https://www.cambridgeday.com/2023/01/16/unarmed-response-to-mental-heath-crises-emerges-as-theme-at-a-protest-after-death/

CW: Death, Police Murder

Hundreds of people have taken to the streets over the last few days, to decry the police murder of Sayed Faisal, a 20 year old CVS employee and student in the #Boston suburb of #Cambridge, #Massachusetts.

Responding to a 911 call, police arrived on the scene to find Sayed cutting himself with a knife and claim that after asking him to disarm himself and then shooting a "less-lethal projectile," he lunged at him, leading police to open fire, killing him.

However, local media reports that "surveillance video and witness accounts suggest Faisal was running from police, trying to hurt himself," when he was shot and killed.

Community members claim that Faisal was in the midst of a mental health crisis and needed support and instead was shot and killed by law enforcement. This killing follows an ongoing pattern of police murdering people in the midst of a mental health episode.

#SayedFaisal #BlackLivesMatter

I personally don t believe #SayedFaisal threatened police. IDK, but someone who did not lunge at pigs, and was a danger to no one but himself should never have been shot and murdered!

#ACAB

#Boston

Hundreds stood in front of #Cambridge city hall in near-freezing temperatures today demanding justice for #SayedFaisal , a young Bangladeshi man recently murdered by Cambridge #police while he was experiencing a #mentalhealth crisis.

The energy was palpable and reminiscent of the 2020 uprisings.

#Boston #protest #ACAB #AbolishThePolice #PoliceBrutality

From 🐦 @/MuslimJusticeLeague regarding further action to speak out against the police murder of 20yr old #SayedFaisal last week:

β€œThere's a Cambridge City Council meeting later at 530pm. Bangladeshi community members and Cambridge residents encouraged to testify”
https://www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/citycouncil/publiccommentsignupform
#CambridgeMA #MApoli #justiceforfaisal

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WELCOME TO PUBLIC COMMENT - THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING

On Monday January 9th, a protest will be held to honor and demand justice for #SayedFaisal , a young Bangladeshi man who was recently murdered by the #cambridge #police department while experiencing a mental health crisis. The The Bangladeshi Association of New England, The Muslim Justice League and the greater #boston community is asking for support and to raise awareness.
Links for information and where to donate are below
https://businesspostbd.com/national/police-shot-dead-bangladeshi-student-in-boston

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnGb-HisGm0/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnEzif0rnkI/

#acab #abolishthepolice #policebrutality #racism #mentalhealth
Police shot dead Bangladeshi student in Boston

A 20-year-old Bangladeshi student of University of Massachusetts Amherst was fatally shot dead by police in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the US on Wednesday