Progress in Maryland: Policy changes that support safety and inclusion
In early 2013, a 26-year-old man named Robert Ethan Saylor, who had Down Syndrome, died of postural asphyxiation shortly after an encounter with off-duty sheriff’s deputies moonlighting as mall security guards in Frederick County, Maryland. Saylor wound up in handcuffs and restrained on the ground, face-down, after refusing to leave a movie theater when his…