A 2016 Pew poll found that 7 in 10 white people thought police usually use the right amount of force, versus just 1 in 3 black people.
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!
