Campus police officers on the campus of Georgia Tech are now equipped with tasers and are required to engage in 40 hours of Crisis Intervention training. Neither was required in September 2017 when Tech student Scout Schultz was shot and killed by a campus officer. They say Schultz had lunged at them with a knife.
Not only did Atlanta attorney L. Chris Stewart, along with Schultz's family, encourage Tech to make the changes, but Stewart also reached a $1 million settlement with the state. Stewart tells Audacy Atlanta's Maria Boynton that Shultz was experiencing a mental health crisis and campus police were not trained to deal with it.
Stewart, who is an attorney for Wanda Cooper-Jones the mother of Ahmaud Arbery, says the Schultz family "really wanted to see change and that happened in this situation."
Georgia Tech said in a statement:"We all continue to celebrate the impact Scout Schultz had on members of the GT community, and mourn their loss. The recent settlement between Scout’s family and the Georgia Department of Administrative Services gives us a moment to reflect again on ways Georgia Tech can better support all members of the campus community. While we’ve significantly increased campus mental health resources and well-being programs over the last four years, we are reminded today of the importance of continued work in this area."
Click below to listen to the full interview with Attorney L. Chris Stewart.