As a medical professional, he was struck by the officers’ refusal to call in medical services for a man in obvious distress. The Medical Civil Rights Initiative, as their group is known, is going state by state across the country and directly to Congress in an effort to pass the Medical Civil Rights Act, which would give anyone experiencing an emergency medical condition during contact with law enforcement officers—from a traffic stop to arrest or incarceration—the right to emergency medical care. Law enforcement officers will have a clear duty to address anyone facing a medical crisis: once they summon emergency medical care, it will be up to emergency medical personnel to determine the next steps. The initiative says cases like these—where enormous costs to individual life and to taxpayers result from lack of medical care in law enforcement interactions—should serve as a clear reason for support. And in a recent verdict, a jury awarded a historic $82 million to the family of Gwendolyn Young, a black woman who died in jail after failing to receive needed medical care.