Doctors Asked Officers to Unshackle a Patient. They Refused for 26 Days.
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| Original publisher | NYT > Top Stories |
| Canonical URL | https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/nyregion/nypd-shackle-mentally-ill.html |
| Publication time | Wed, 20 May 2026 12:48:28 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-20T12:53:14.800Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-20T13:57:17.717Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
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| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Supported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTDoctors Asked Officers to Unshackle a Patient. They Refused for 26 Days.A lawsuit challenges the police practice of shackling mentally ill arrestees in New York, sometimes for long periods, while they await arraignment in locked psychiatric wards.Listen · 9:02 min Share full article105A homeless man with a long history of mental illness was kept shackled to a bed by the police at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx for 26 consecutive days while awaiting arraignment, his lawyers say.Credit...Mark Vergari/The Journal News, via USA TODAY NETWORKBy Andy NewmanMay 20, 2026 !function(){var…
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