The student, who’d expressed suicidal intent, had a wariness of police based on past experiences and said that they would run away if officers arrived on the scene. So Elizabeth called Penn’s psychiatric emergency center instead, walked the student over for an evaluation, and filed an incident report requesting no police follow-up… The next morning, police showed up at the student’s dorm anyway, escorting them out of the apartment and through Hill. Robert described the ordeal as a “perp walk,” adding that while the officers were in plain clothes, that did little to reduce the visibility of the encounter.
