Woman's Death at Hands of SLCPD Determined Homicide
Fewer residents than ever feel secure walking the streets of downtown Salt Lake City while drug deals, drug use and loitering are occuring right on Main Street in downtown.
This is in large part due to the clearly untreated mentally disturbed, drug-addicted growing homeless population. Indicative of the severity of the problem is the case of Megan Joyce Mohn, 40, who is seen in bodycam footage released last month by SLCPD. Mohn can be heard saying, “Please don’t shoot!” and “Don’t kill me! I don’t want to die!”
Mohn was yelling and wielding an iron bar when officers were called to the scene at 1:30 AM, but her greatest offence after detained was that she did not want to provide the officers with her name. For this, officers proceeded to kneel on her body and put her in ankle irons. During this alternation Mohn fell unconscious and experienced cardiac arrest. She was in a comma for nine days before she died. The coroner's office determined that this asphyxiation lead to her cardiac arrest, which was caused by both methamphetamine and the lack of oxygen.
Robin Pendergrast is a New York Times photojournalist stationed in Salt Lake City, he says that Mohn's death is akin to the death of George Floyd at the hands of officers in Minneapolis in 2019. "This should not have happened, the police need to be heald accountable for this."
The difficulties in managing the current homeless-population problems in downtown Salt Lake City appear to be overwhelming the Salt Lake City Police Department. Salt Lake City is facing a drug epidemic, a mental health crisis, a housing crisis and as a result a burgeoning homeless population that SLC leaders are unequiped to manage.
Salt Lake City is home to the headquarters of one of the largest humanitarian-oriented religions in the world: The LDS Church has been revealed to have over $100 billion in their private securities and holdings including a private mall that cost over $2 billion.
Yet despite this wealth and the success of Utah’s tech-heavy economy, Salt Lake City is beginning to resemble our larger neighboring western cities more each day. Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, and Las Vegas suffer from homeless populations that are stifling urban populations and local business owners' abilities to go about their business and feel safe.
Watch the condensed Utah Stories podcast or the entire episode, where we discuss the extreme difficulty of effectively policing our cities that are facing so many challenges.
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