‘Where is safe?’: gun violence takes particular toll on mental health of Black Americans

"Where is the safe place for Black people to be?" Hardy asked. "Not church, not the playground, not the supermarket, not the library, not the university, not the classroom. There's nowhere. So, there's a constant anxiety that Black people live with." LoPresti added that police violence against Black people also exacerbates safety concerns, as many of them feel that calling law enforcement could open them up to additional brutality. "The racialized violence that we've seen at the hands of police officers has led Black people in Black communities to feel as if there's no one we can call," LoPresti said. "There's no one, we can sort of trust to value us as much as we value each other."

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