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Publicizing Police Killings of Unarmed Black People Causes Emotional Trauma, Rutgers Study Finds
July 17, 2020
NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, July 17 -- Rutgers University issued the following news:

A majority of college students of color show symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder after watching social media videos of unarmed Black men being killed by police, a Rutgers study finds.

The study, published in the Journal of Black Studies (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0021934720935600), surveyed 134 college students in the United States, between the ages of 18 and 24 . . .

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