Seven months ago, Detroit Police responded to a mental health call for a young Black man who had schizophrenia. 

His name was Porter Burks. 

Police shot him to death just minutes after arriving on the scene. This isn’t the first time that something like this has happened. And so we wanted to know, why was Porter Burks killed during a mental health call?

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