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From Michael Brown to Sonya Massey, a decade of police antiblack violence causes grief, worry and coping for Black parents

  • Written by Seanna Leath, Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
From Michael Brown to Sonya Massey, a decade of police antiblack violence causes grief, worry and coping for Black parentsDemonstrators protest the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., in August 2014. Joshua Lott/AFP/Getty Images

A decade ago, Michael Brown Jr., an unarmed Black 18-year-old, was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.

The fatal incident began when the officer, Darren Wilson, saw Brown...

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