At Rest

Deadly force
Just after midnight police were called to a domestic dispute involving Thompson, who had had 15 police contacts since the 1990s for mental health issues. After making incoherent statements she went for a knife in the kitchen drawer and lunged at the two officers, who fatally shot her. Thompson's husband and daughter supported the police version of events.
This record exists so that Patricia Thompson, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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