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June 22, 2018

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