Episode 4: “I Baker Act you. You Baker Acted me.”

Aftereffect | Jun 29, 2018

The day of the shooting wasn't Arnaldo's first encounter with the police. In fact, they'd loomed large in his life for years before that. Even as he bounced from one group home to another, the people that consistently showed up for him, often in the worst way, were the cops.

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In the summer of 2016, a police shooting upended the life of Arnaldo Rios Soto, a 26-year old, non-speaking, autistic man. Aftereffect tells Arnaldo’s story — a hidden world of psych wards, physical abuse and chemical restraints — and asks the question: What made Arnaldo’s life go so wrong?

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Thanks also to the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism.

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Episode 4: “I Baker Act you. You Baker Acted me.”

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