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Lancet Study: Police Killings of Black Americans Harms Mental Health of Black Population

HeadlineJun 22, 2018

In related news, a new study in The Lancet medical journal has found that police killings of unarmed black Americans directly harms the mental health of the wider black population. One of the report’s authors said, “It’s really about all the kinds of insidious ways that structural racism can make people sick.”

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