‘You Look Like a Thug’: Texas Army Veteran Went to Gas Station to Seek Help for a Mental Health Episode, He Ended Up Handcuffed and Dead In the Back of Patrol Car After Cops Beat Him
Michael Thompson had broken no law when he entered a 7-Eleven convenience store and asked the clerk to call 911 on his behalf because he was suffering a mental episode. But El Paso police arrived and killed the 36-year-old Black father of two children and U.S. Army veteran. Now Thompson’s mother, Barbara Thompson, has filed…
