“[Yanira] wanted to be normal. She wanted to stop taking her medication, and I get it. Sometimes when my feet hurt I just want to be normal. I don’t want to take pills. I get her…all we want is justice,” said a friend of Yanira’s during a community march. “Sadly, they mistook her for something she didn’t do, and a cop decided to get his gun out when he could have gotten out his taser, his pepper spray,” she said.
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Friends of the family have referred to Yanira as being a person with "special needs" who had issues taking her medication.
"She wanted to be normal. She wanted to stop taking her medication, and I get it.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/09/18757142.php
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