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Mentally ill and homeless: Arrest highlights system’s flaws

by Janie Har
| August 7, 2021 9:03 AM

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The big brother Suzette Chaumette remembers was witty and kind, an aspiring historian at the University of California, Berkeley whose promise was derailed by mental illness. Over the decades, he struggled with bipolar disorder, cycling in and out of hospitals and halfway homes and into homelessness.

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