Holly Robinson Peete Instagram – My heart is completely shattered. 💔💔💔Poor Ryan…We cannot afford to call the police when our loved ones are in mental health crisis situation…They will likely shoot to kill first and ask questions later. They’re not equipped to de-escalate and have compassion so for our young people with autism when they are in a crisis situation there needs to be some kind of trained mental health counselor that comes out on these calls to de-escalate. We simply have to find this resource. We can’t keep losing our young people and we also can’t be scared to call 911 when there’s a crisis. But we absolutely must let authorities know about the autism -not that it will necessarily change the outcome…🥺🥺🥺🥺 We simply shouldn’t have to worry that they’re going to end up dead. I’m very sure this family was scared to death and just never thought that calling 911 would result in their loved one being shot to death. Many will look at the video and say well Ryan was charging the cop with a garden tool, and the cop was scared what could’ve been done. There are many ways to de-escalate, and there are so many non-lethal weapons. Why can’t they use those?! I used to have nightmares about this EXACT thing happening to my son…prayers out to this poor family. #autism #communitypolicing #mentalhealth