'You should be covering my funeral right now': Former Fall River Mayor Will Flanagan details stabbing, urges change

'You should be covering my funeral right now': Former Fall River Mayor Will Flanagan details stabbing, urges change

FALL RIVER, Mass. (WPRI) — Former Fall River Mayor Will Flanagan says he's lucky to be alive after a brutal stabbing attack last month, but also argues his experience should serve as a wake-up call about gaps in the country's mental health and criminal justice systems. "My attacker should not have been on the streets on Oct. 20," Flanagan told Target 12 in his first sit-down television interview since the attack. "There has to be a shift in poli…