“I kind of trusted the fact that he was OK because he was at the police station,” she told KFF Health News. James McMillen, the city’s police chief, told KFF Health News in 2021 that he had plans to improve policing before Taylor died. McMillen declined to comment on KFF Health News’ questions about Gilmore’s case and the community’s concerns about the department. He said hearing about other Black Sikeston residents being harassed by the police department had started to affect his mental health. This article first appeared on KFF Health News and is republished here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.