The word “black” does not appear anywhere in the article, so we can be 100% sure the boy is not black.
The police are not emotional-health responders. They are criminal responders. In this case they were told an irrational kid with a gun had threatened to shoot the caller’s male coworker. Naturally, the cops respond to dangerous kid with a gun.
“Questions about how police deal with someone with mental health issues.” The police are unable to diagnose those problems. They were called to protect life.
As for the people who think mental health workers should be called, and not the cops, they will be proved wrong the first time the mental health worker is killed.
Actually, when the mother called, she specifically asked for a crisis handling team, and SLC actually has those.
Instead they sent hyped-up trigger-happy cops looking the blast away the fist chance they got.