Stephen Palmer

How they died

Less-than-lethal force

Palmer was a patient at a state-run mental health center. Police were called in when he became "unruly". Initially cooperative, Palmer resisted arrest, was pepper-sprayed without result, and somehow managed to wound five officers before being fatally tasered. Police were well aware of Palmer's history of mental illness.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Stephen Palmer, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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