Grand Jury recommends changes to OPD Community Response Team after officers cleared in 2023 shooting [Video]

An Orange County Grand Jury has issued a list of recommendations meant to improve the Orlando Police Department’s Community Response Team after its review of a deadly officer-involved shooting.

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Two Orlando police officers trained in crisis intervention responded to an apartment building on Pioneers Way shortly before 1 p.m. on July 14, 2023, after a man called saying his girlfriend was talking about killing herself and that she was armed with a knife.

According to the police department, first responders began crisis negotiations with the woman over the phone, and at one point, she walked out of the apartment holding the phone and a knife before retreating back into the apartment.

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Police say the negotiator made additional attempts to talk to the woman before she ran out of the apartment again and charged at the …