A week ago my daughter and I came across a store owner and a homeless man.  The homeless man was mentally unstable and the store owner and her employee was threatening calling the police. She had already called and was waiting on the phone. The verbally abusive man was there all of 2 minutes. He had gone. My daughter, 16, having witnessed the whole thing, asks the woman not to call the cops but to call Cahoots. A crisis response team we have here in Eugene that are a trained group of medics, nurses, volunteers who respond to these types of crisis' INSTEAD of the cops. They are non violent and are an alternative to the cops. The woman refused.  This of course prompted my daughter to get me, which I then approached the woman and again asked her to reconsider her actions.  She still refused. When the cops arrived,  l left. I then posted a 5 minute video, you can see on Facebook now, and soon on YouTube stating the situation.  When the video reached over a few thousand views, the store owner thought sheh should state something as well. After a couple hundred comments, she reached out to me to "discuss" what happened. ...... I refused, this podcast tells you why. It wasn't until later that night, I realized what a fateful day it was, a 5 year anniversary....listen in... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ayisha-elliott/message

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