Rubber bullets spark debate as protests surge worldwide
Police use of rubber bullets and other crowd control weapons raises injuries and fatalities amid George Floyd protests. Experts warn of permanent harm from 40 mm bystanders and close range firing, while officials defend efforts to restore order.
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George Floyd
Minneapolis
BMJ
Brian Higgins
Bergen County
N.J
Douglas Lazzaro
NYU Langone Health
la Mesa
Calif
Kendrick Sampson
Los Angeles
Washington
D.C
National Guard
Donald Trump
William Barr
John Elder
Rohini Haar
University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health
Physicians For Human Rights
Higgins
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
New York
Lazzaro
Robert Glatter
New York City
American College of Emergency Physicians
Northern Ireland
United Kingdom
Haar
Boston
Howie Mell
Mell
Black youth suicide rates rise faster than whites in pandemic era
The piece spotlights Victo ria Waltz and Gabrielle Spear two black teens who survived suicide attempts detailing how bullying early life stress and the COVID pandemic fuel distress. Health experts and lawmakers cite a 73 percent rise in black adolescent death by own action attempts from 1991 to 2017 and call for expanded mental health access and trauma awareness.
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Washington
Victoria Waltz
Waltz
Prince George’s County
Maryland
U.S
Gabrielle Spear
Spear
Charlayne Hayling- Williams
Hayling-Willliams
Community Wellness Ventures
Hayling- Williams
Congressional Black Caucus
Michael Lindsey
New York University
McSilver Institute For Poverty Policy and Research
Black Caucus
COVID
Bonnie Watson Coleman
D-N.j
House
Appropriations Committee
Taraji P. Henson
Boris Lawrence Henson
Henson
Joycelyn Elders
Bill Clinton
Joe Massa
Kenny Serrano
Massa
West Haven
Connecticut
Serrano
Philip Galbert
Melanie Warner
Bill
Dawn York
Josh
Warner
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