When Ayana called the police on Aug. 17, she expected to get help for her brother, a resident of a low-income housing building in Seattle’s Sand Point neighborhood who was in crisis. Instead, what happened was what she later called a “nightmare.”
At around 2 a.m. that day, Ayana, 22, called 911 asking for intervention in a domestic violence situation with her brother Yeshua, who is 28. Yeshua had become increasingly violent toward Ayana and their mother, Keren, who is 56. According to his family members, Yeshua has an undiagnosed severe mental illness. ...