"Police Shootings of Mentally Ill Individuals Spark Legal Action and Lawsuits in Tennessee"

A Tennessee man with mental health issues was shot and killed by Nashville police in a confrontation captured on an officer's body camera. The man's family claims he was needlessly shot while on his back. The police were responding to a call that the man was holding another man at knifepoint. The family says their loved one had severe mental issues and was drunk. The police did not dispatch their Crisis Intervention Team, which was established to respond to mental health crises. The officer involved remains on administrative assignment, and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is leading the probe. Legal action is expected to be taken by the family.