The Trauma of Police Killings

May 24, 2021

Protest march marking the anniversary of George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis, Minn., May 23, 2021.Denise Herd, ISSI faculty affiliate, authored a new article in The Conversation that shares her findings on the widespread pain and grief that police killings foster. "Evidence shows that many Black Americans across the U.S. experience police killings of other Black people as traumatic events, and that this trauma diminishes the ability of Black communities to thrive."