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Slow death: Is the trauma of police violence killing black women?

  • Written by Christen Smith, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin
imageDiamond Reynolds at a rally at the governor's residence, St Paul, Minnesota on July 7, 2016.Lorie Shaull/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Diamond Reynolds’ live stream of Philando Castile bleeding to death after being shot by Officer Jeronimo Yanez has shocked and dismayed our nation.

It is difficult to imagine the pain of witnessing and archiving the death...

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