The mental health effects of police brutality on whole communities needs to be something we talk about and reckon with https://interc.pt/2NgsxTo by @ShaunKing
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Replying to @theintercept @shaunking
Solutions? Not only creating access to
#mentalhealth resources for communities of color that experience this#trauma, but also treating#policing as a#publichealth crisis!https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/policing/spotlight/2018/09/14/police-brutality-damaging-black-communitys-mental-health/1218566002/ …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Just last week
@DrAlthaStewart, Pres. of@APAPsychiatric, explained at@CBCFInc the dire need for#mentalhealth resources & providers and "the impact of community stressors" like "violence and trauma, racism, implicit bias, poverty" etc. on Black Americanshttp://alert.psychnews.org/2018/09/mental-health-needs-of-blacks-are-not.html …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
She's absolutely right.
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