United States police invade Chelsea Manning’s home with guns

This video from the USA says about itself:

Police Broke Into Chelsea Manning‘s Home With Guns Drawn — in a “Wellness Check”

5 June 2018

Shortly after Chelsea Manning posted what appeared to be two suicidal tweets on May 27, police broke into her home with
their weapons drawn as if conducting a raid, in what is known as a “wellness” or “welfare check” on a person experiencing a mental health crisis. Manning, a former Army intelligence analyst turned whistleblower and U.S. Senate candidate, was not at home, but video obtained by The Intercept shows officers pointing their guns as they searched her empty apartment.

“This is what a police state looks like”, Manning said. “Guns drawn during a ‘wellness’ check.”

Welfare checks like this, usually prompted by calls placed to 911 by concerned friends or family, too often end with police harming — or even killing — the person they were dispatched to check on.

Manning was out of the country at the time of the incident, said Janus Cassandra, a close friend who was on the phone with her that night. “If Chelsea had been home when these cops arrived with guns drawn, she would be dead.”

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