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DESCRIPTION:PEOPLE’S INVESTIGATION REPORT FINDS BERKELEY POLICE AND INADEQUATE 
 POLICIES RESPONSIBLE FOR IN-CUSTODY DEATH\n\nPress Conference and 
 Rally\nDemand that Police Review Commission to hold Special Hearing into 
 the Death Of Kayla Moore\n\nWHERE: Veterans Memorial Building, 1947 Center 
 Street, Berkeley, CA.\nWHEN:  Wednesday October 16th , 2013 
 4pm\n\nAccording to a detailed report just released by a People’s 
 Investigation, the in-custody death of Xavier Christopher Moore never 
 should have happened.  A coalition of groups and individuals will convene 
 in front of the Police Review Commission offices on Wednesday October 16th 
 at 4pm to submit the necessary signatures to administratively compel the 
 Police Review  Commission to hold a special hearing. Our goal is to present 
 the report to the Commission and allow members of the public to express 
 their concerns.\n\n“I think the report is eye opening and extremely 
 accurate in terms of what is going on with mental health services in 
 Berkeley. The lack of those services means that police are the first 
 responders to people in mental health crisis and they are not trained for 
 these situations,” said Maria Moore, sister to Kayla Moore. “Our family 
 is completely in the dark regarding what  the city intends to do about  
 this situation. We hope that the report and special hearing will act as a 
 catalyst for the PRC and the City Council to take action.”\n\nAlthough 
 the PRC maintains that it began an investigation in March, no findings have 
 been released or updates on their investigation made public. Berkeley  
 Copwatch convened a variety of individuals and sources to find out what 
 actually happened to Xavier Moore, also known as Kayla, when police entered 
 her home on February 13th 2013. The People’s Investigation directly 
 interviews witnesses and reviews documents in order to make a honest 
 appraisal of a particular event and provide findings to the 
 community.\n\nAfter a thorough examination of witness statements, police 
 policies, mental health budgets, police reports, after interviewing Moore's 
 neighbors and family members, the People’s Investigation has reason to 
 believe that, in addition to poor judgment and insufficient training of 
 individual officers, there is a lack of city services, funding and policies 
 about how to humanely provide emergency mental health services to the 
 people of Berkeley. The reports identifies these as factors that 
 contributed to her death.\n\n“The city of Berkeley has slashed the budget 
 for mental health ‘Crisis and Assessment’ in half since 2011. People in 
 crisis are treated like criminals instead of patients. The Berkeley Police 
 Association repeated their calls for tasers in response to a recent episode 
 involving a mentally ill man. Are tasers really going to be the way that 
 Berkeley provides mental health care? It is time that our city comes to 
 terms with the fact that people are dying because we don’t provide 
 adequate mental health services,” said Andrea Prichett of Berkeley 
 Copwatch.\n\nPLEASE JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY OCT 16th!!!\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/13/18744856.php
SUMMARY:Support Justice for Kayla Moore! Copwatch to Release Findings of People’s Investigation
LOCATION:Veterans Memorial Building, 1947 Center Street, Berkeley.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/10/13/18744856.php
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