Police shootings of unarmed black people linked to health problems for black infants
Police shootings of unarmed black people linked to health problems for black infants
- December 5, 2019
- Kristin Turney, sociology, Los Angeles Times, Dec. 5, 2019
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“We often think about police violence as having these individual-level consequences,” said Kristin Turney, a sociologist at UC Irvine who was not involved in the new research. “But this paper is really innovative because it shows that police violence has spillover effects. … It can affect people even in utero.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2019-12-05/police-shootings-black-people-babies-health.
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