He died after a violent altercation with Ottawa police. 10 years later there are still calls for change

Abdi was a 38-year-old Somali Canadian whose mental health unraveled in the six months leading to his arrest. In its first year, the city-funded ANCHOR program dispatched crisis response workers to 1,874 calls, over 90 per cent of which were handled with no police involvement. The first officer said the call details indicated mental health was a factor but that he approached the incident as "a criminal call." (Guy Quenneville/CBC)'The ultimate goal is less crisis'One of the other groups to form in the years after Abdi's death was the Ottawa Black Mental Health Coalition. After Abdi's death, Alolo of the Ottawa Guiding Council for Mental Health and Addictions interviewed members of the city's Somali community.