Opinion| Our kids are watching: What Jacob Blake's shooting reveals about police trauma

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Opinion | Dr. Rhea Boyd: Study after study has demonstrated the impact of police surveillance and violence on adult physical and mental health, but children are also affected — as victims and as witnesses. - NBCNewsTHINK

, serious bodily injury is actually a far more common outcome than death, despite the fact that it is not as often publicized by the media. In 2019, when police used force in California, the victim suffered serious bodily injury more thanWhether their exposure occurs as direct victims, direct witnesses or inadvertent consumers processing video playbacks on TV or social media.

Whether their exposure occurs as direct victims, direct witnesses or inadvertent consumers processingon TV or social media — children and youth are observing and affected by police surveillance, brutality and violence. This is particularly true for Black, Latinx and Indigenous kids who, because of the disproportionate policing of their neighborhoods and tribal lands, are at greater risk for exposure to this type of community violence.

 

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THINK Another reason to repeal qualified immunity to make bad cops personally liable for wrongdoing. If they stand to lose everything, they'll think before overreacting.

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THINK Oh and those kids watching black on black violence and disrespect of the police are good to go?

THINK Now do the rioters and looters who attack random people just for the hell of it.

THINK LOL they used the Get Out crying face guy.

THINK More troubling children viewing domestic violence, children watching parents abuse drugs ,children being victims of parental abuse.

THINK Children are more traumatized by violence committed by people who are not police, but they are vastly more likely to encounter that than hypothetical police violence. Also ,you need to at least try to understand that alot of people don't make interactions with police easy.

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