VIDEO: Sarasota Police Officer Talks Down Man in Mental Health Crisis About to Jump Off 6-Story Parkade

The officers arrived in silence—no lights, no sirens, no jarring footsteps. They parked discretely and approached the young man in a mental health crisis about to jump from the sixth floor of a parkade in Sarasota, Florida. And there was Officer Michal Banasiak, already present on the scene, putting his crisis intervention training to good use. […]