A 2017 Pew poll asked police officers if the high-profile police killings of black people were isolated incidents or part of a more systemic problem…”
Bottom line?
Looking at it another way, this says that when any black person sees, or hears about, a black male killed by police, they experience “collective trauma”.
African Americans suffer more poor mental health days from police killings of unarmed African Americans than from diabetes.
Instead, it is clear that only African Americans experience this “collective trauma” following police killings of other unarmed African Americans, only because of the shared experiences of structural racism.
What I found fascinating was that not only did the study find that the same thing didn’t when whites saw unarmed blacks (or whites) killed by police, African Americans don’t experience this collective trauma when the police killed and armed black (white) man!
