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Violent Cops are Health Menace
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
10 Dec 2018
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Activists of Critical Resistance won American Public Health Association endorsement of the principle that police violence is a public health issue. Jade Rivera, co-author of the report that documented a cascade of ills flowing from police mayhem, said the problem goes beyond those killed outright by cops. “We can also see that there are physical harms as well as mental health and stress associated with these interactions” between civilians and cops, said Rivera.

Police brutality

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