Militarized Police and the Psychological Impact on the Black Community

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 6, 2017

When community members protested the death of Alton Sterling, who was shot in close range by Baton Rouge Police Department officers, they were met with brutality from the police and long lasting trauma. As police forces all over the country grow increasingly militarized many in the black community all over the country are still dealing with the psychological trauma encounters with the police have left them, reports  Collier Meyerson, contributing writer at The Nation, investigative fellow at Reveal and a Knobler Fellow at the Nation Institute.

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