By Carla K. Johnson The Associated Press The effect of police violence on Black Americans is tracked in two new studies, with one tying police-involved deaths to sleep disturbances and the other finding a racial gap in injuries involving police use of tasers. The health effects of police violence on Black people “need to be documented […]
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France’s militarized law enforcement continues a history of anti-Black racism
By DaQuan Lawrence, AFRO International Writer, DLawrence@afro.com As the June 27 traffic stop-turned-killing of Nahel Merzouk, 17, in Nanterre, France, led to weeks of nationwide protest and social unrest, many are saying the authorities’ overtly militarized response mirrors France’s history of colonialism and anti-Black oppression. The weeks following Merzouk’s unlawful death were filled with acts […]