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Resident urges mental‑health crisis response after fatal officer‑involved shooting
Summary
A Fargo resident used public comment to call for mental‑health responders and accountability after a November officer‑involved fatal shooting of a veteran, saying officers shot a man who posed more danger to himself than others and that the city should invest in nonviolent crisis response.
During public comment at Monday’s Fargo City Commission meeting, resident Olivia Fisher urged the city to change how it responds to mental‑health crises and called for accountability following an officer‑involved shooting in November that killed a 65‑year‑old veteran, identified by the speaker as Peter Greco.
Fisher said Greco called police that day for help during suicidal ideation; she alleged officers shot him four times on his property and later determined the firearm he had pointed was a BB gun. "So to me, it doesn't take police training to put 2 and 2 together. This man clearly wanted the cops to harm him, and he was more of a threat to himself than anyone else," Fisher said. She said the officers returned to duty after the shooting.
Fisher called for the city to deploy mental‑health professionals and nonviolent conflict mediators for crises and to redirect some funding from police to those services. She cited national studies and said people with mental‑health struggles face higher risk during police encounters.
No formal action was taken as a result of the comment; the commission did not make a public response during the meeting record. The city’s formal process for reviewing officer‑involved shootings or for implementing mental‑health response teams was not discussed in detail during the meeting transcript.
