Daily News | How the Buffalo mass shooting raises the stress, trauma of Black Philadelphians
in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that when there is more than one incident in a week that is perceived as anti-Black violence and garners national interest, Black Americans report a decline in mental health, while white Americans do not.
Alexander Tsai, psychiatrist at Boston’s Mass General Hospital and an associated professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, coauthored the 2018 study on police shootings. He said there is a growing body of evidence that violent incidents harm the mental health of entire communities — and that the effect could be far reaching.
Bruce Nash, who is 38 and from North Philadelphia, saw video from the shooting and felt re-traumatized. “I seen a person laying on the ground and it took me back to 2017, when ” he recalled. “As I tried to run off, I ended up tripping over a bike and I landed on the ground and the shooter stood over me and shot.”the trauma is daily — but events like the mass shooting in Buffalo bring the injury to the front. The exposure to such violent racism also adds pain. “Ten Black people, you know, it’s hurtful,” Nash said.
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