Talk:Death of Natasha McKenna

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Relevance of mental illness[edit]

Schizophrenia is not established as contributing to her death. Many people with no history of mental illness have fought the police, and many have died in police custody. Her illness is circumstantial, not germane. The article now makes it appear her mental illness led directly to her death, which no one has claimed. Imagine this opening sentence: "Natasha McKenna (January 9, 1978 – February 8, 2015) was an African-American woman with mental health issues who died while in the custody of police, one of whom had previously been treated for depression." She may have had issues, and the police officers may have as well in their personal lives, but it has not been established that these issues led to her death so they are not germane. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.158.188.209 (talk) 23:43, 19 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think McKenna's mental condition contributed significantly to her death, and it is one of the factors in why they were trying to relocate her -- because she needed to be evaluated because her mental state was not good. Also, as just a purely productive thing, it seems like this is a really important illustration of the inability of the police to deal with someone who is having problems. If you read the documentation, press, and even her family's comments, the issue of mental health is part of this tragedy. I think by removing this from the lede it is a bit misleading and is not as informative. Thoughts of other editors? -- BrillLyle (talk) 00:43, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 7 June 2020[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: page moved. (non-admin closure) ~SS49~ {talk} 02:21, 15 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Natasha McKenna → Death of Natasha McKenna – In line with the majority of other similar articles (namely, the vast majority of those those outlined in Template:Black Lives Matter, such as Death of Adama Traoré, Death of Eric Garner, Shooting of Trayvon Martin, etc.), this article should be renamed for the sake of consistency and accuracy; the article at present, at least, focuses overwhelmingly on her death as opposed to her life (which, in its own right, is very tragic). WhinyTheYounger (talk) 22:23, 7 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nomination. This is not a biographical entry, however, if consensus were to skew towards the contention that the tasering of Natasha McKenna did, in fact, kill her and therefore this article's main title header should be Killing of Natasha McKenna, I would join in support of such a revision. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 23:58, 7 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support. This article is about her death.--Mvqr (talk) 10:38, 14 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Mention of disturbing details[edit]

When they were extracting her from her cell she said "You promised you wouldn't hurt me this time" while the officers slapped her around... I think this should be mentioned in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.191.55.45 (talk) 01:02, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]