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We received 181 votes on the Thursday poll, “Would you send your child to a private school where AI does most of the teaching and there are no certified teachers?”

• 6 said Yes
• 166 said No
• 19 said, “I might if the price is right.”

New poll question at the bottom of today’s newsletter. (You can also suggest a poll question by emailing me at [email protected].)

By Garrett Yalch, The Frontier
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Justin Benner was rolling around in a flowerbed outside his next-door neighbor’s house late at night, yelling “help him” and “she’s got a gun,” when Tulsa police officers arrived. No one else was around.

When Benner did not respond to commands, an officer shot him with a pepperball gun and pinned him down with a tactical shield. Police officers dragged him to a patrol car.

Earlier in the day, the 48-year-old’s father had taken him to a psychiatric clinic after he began acting paranoid, but doctors cleared him to return home.

Tulsa Police Department policy requires officers to take people for a medical assessment when they appear to need treatment for serious mental illness. Instead, officers arrested Benner for public intoxication and resisting arrest and took him to the Tulsa Municipal Jail, a small downtown lockup with no on-site medical staff. 

There, detention officers didn’t conduct a required medical screening before wrenching Benner into a full-body restraint device as he groaned and pleaded for help. As staff closed the door to Benner’s cell, he began to writhe and shake, surveillance video shows. Less than an hour later, he was dead.

A Frontier investigation in March found Benner was one of at least seven people who have died from preventable causes at the city lockup since 2023. The reporting found that the facility, which only holds people on low-level misdemeanor charges, has repeatedly accepted medically fragile arrestees in violation of jail policies and despite repeated warnings from city and jail staff.  

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