have a mental illness like adam, or a physical disability, or an intellectual one. 26—year—old ethan sayloryndrome, and idolised police officers. he even wanted to be one. one evening he had been at the cinema with a carer, but at the end of a film he went back to his seat, wanting to see the movie again. hearing someone was inside the next screening without a ticket, three off—duty police officers went in. ethann‘s mother takes up the story from evidence given in an investigation. by all reports one of them said to the other gentlemen, "come on fellas, it looks that we are going to have a fight on our hands." at some point it becomes "you need to leave or you will be arrested." and ethan still doesn't move, and so the officers put their arms under his arms to lift him up and to remove him from the theatre. so somehow in those next seconds or minutes, ethan ends up on the floor, face down, and is not breathing. ethan was restrained, handcuffed and had been crying out before he died — though the circumstances were not made clear to his family, who thought he had just passed away from a medic

and those killed by the police in the us each year have a disability. 26—year—old ethan saylor who hadwent back to his seat, wanting to see the movie again. hearing someone was inside the next screening without a ticket, three off—duty police officers went in. somehow in those next seconds or minutes, ethan ends up on the floor, face down and is not breathing. ethan was restrained, handcuffed and had been crying out before he died. we were called to the sheriffs department the autopsy report was back. and they told us that the medical examiner had ruled this a homicide and the death was by asphyxiation. the department whose officers were involved in ethan's death has not engaged. they agreed with a financial settlement with her, but never so much as apologised or admitted any wrongdoing. already, this year, right across the us, at least 130 people with a range of disabilities are confirmed to have been killed by police officers. these are just the ones we know about. and hundreds of court cases, it was never determined whether the person killed had a disability at all. but what of the