Black Ontarians experience double the wait times to get evidence-based mental health support than their white counterparts, and are more likely to be restrained or confined in the mental health and addictions system.
There’s also evidence to suggest Black people are not taken seriously by health-care workers when they seek out treatment for physical ailments. found that systemically, Black Americans do not receive adequate treatment for pain because of health professionals’ racial bias, including the assumptions they will abuse medications, don’t feel pain as intensely as white people and other false beliefs.
Two police officers were at the hospital that October night for an unrelated call when they heard yelling and walked up to the scene with the Jeffers, the nurse and the security guards, according to the police report. The nurse told the officers that Pamelia was being held on a Form 1, and wasn’t allowed to leave the hospital.
After the struggle, as the officers were escorting Jeffers to the hospital, Edwards said, according to the body camera video, “Why were you fighting us? What was going on? How much sense did that make?” “I not fight you guys. I just didn’t want me wife to be taken,” Jeffers responded.
Awesome! Suing the police is lawful! Rioting is not! Good for you!
So sorry this family was treated so badly after going to hospital for a stomach ache. The police escalate to violence so fast. Those with mental health illnesses get treated awful by the health care system anyway without racial bias in the mix.