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

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From Michael Brown to Sonya Massey, police antiblack ********* causes grief, worry and coping for ****** parents

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A decade ago,

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, an unarmed ****** 18-year-old, was shot and ******* by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.

The

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began when the officer, Darren Wilson, saw Brown and a friend walking down the middle of a street. Wilson claimed that Brown refused to obey his order to get off the street and a ****** ensued. The *********,

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, was in self-defense—a claim that

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have used nationwide to justify antiblack ******* *********.

Brown’s ****** on Aug. 9, 2014, occurred just eight days after his high school graduation and triggered nearly a year of protests across the country. Three months later, a grand jury in Ferguson

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the police officer, a decision that set off more protests and demands for ******* justice in policing.

Nearly 10 years later and less than 90 miles away from Ferguson,

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, an unarmed, 36-year-old ****** woman and mother of two children, called local police on July 6, 2024, to investigate mysterious sounds outside of her home near Springfield, Illinois.

Instead of helping, one of the

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, Sean Grayson, shot and ******* Massey. As her son Malachi told reporters, the officer showed little regard for her humanity during the slaying that was captured on body-camera footage. At the officer’s request, Massey had taken

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from the stove. Minutes later, she was ******* when Grayson fired three bullets, including one that hit right below her eye.

Unlike Brown’s case in Ferguson,

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from the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office and charged with first-degree *******. Similar to Darren Wilson, he claimed he acted in self-defense.

These two instances of

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highlight the

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against ****** Americans—and

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among ****** Americans for local police.

From

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, at least 179 people have been ******* by police or while in jail within four counties of the St. Louis region near where Brown *****.

These local statistics mirror

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of police ********* in the U.S. and reveal that Massey and Brown were not exceptions to the norm—but, rather, representative of the

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that pervades ********* society.

As we have learned through our research of ******* ********* in ****** communities, developing ways to cope is often a necessary reality of living in the ******* States.

What is ******* grief?

With every

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committed by a police officer, ****** people tend to experience a collective sense of ******* grief.

That

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by the U.S. National Institutes of Health as an “individuals’ cognitive, emotional, physical, and spiritual responses to loss due to racism and

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.”

In addition, many ****** parents experience a type of anticipatory grief and stress due to the

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their children may encounter in their lifetime.

For instance, in a

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, researchers found ****** pregnant women experienced feelings of *****, stress and anxiety about police brutality toward their children—before their children were born. Even mothers who reported positive experiences with police officers anticipated negative treatment toward their children based on their race.

******* grief can represent a

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that allows ****** parents to emotionally and cognitively process incidents of ******* ********* in community with others.

In

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, one mother told us:

“I can’t watch the videos anymore. It is a living nightmare, and I do not need those images, because they cannot be unseen. It takes a heavy toll on me. I cope with it in therapy. I cry. I give myself space to feel my feelings. I talk with my partner about it. It gives me a sense of pain and purpose at the same time.”

How do ****** parents respond to ******* *********

When parents think about how they can

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for the ******* discrimination they may encounter in their daily lives, many use what is known as

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to improve they and their children’s adaptive coping responses in response to ******* bias and discrimination.

******* socialization refers to the process by which parents instill race-related messages and values in their children. It is considered by psychologists to be one of the most critical

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for ****** youth and includes both

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and

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practices.

For instance, some parents monitor the content of their children’s

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and limit their exposure to ******* *********. Other parents

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on ******* discrimination with affirmations that their children are loved, worthy and valued.

Common

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include statements such as: “You should be proud to be ******.” A message on ******* bias might involve: “You may be evaluated by higher standards than your white peers.”

Overall, these messages are intended to elicit ******* and cultural pride, while also encouraging ****** youth to be cautious and aware of the ongoing realities of ******* *********.

In a forthcoming study we have on how ****** parents in Missouri talk to their adolescents about race, one mother shared:

“Like with the Sonya Massey thing, my daughter saw the video and she was like—’but she didn’t do anything wrong.” That’s usually what happens. Like I told her, she called the police for help and they end up ******** her. It happens sometimes because they act like they’re scared of ******* for some reason. I feel like we are not progressing in America with this racism thing.”

While ****** parents and their children continue to resist ******* discrimination through their everyday practices of

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, there ******** a critical need to invest in the health and well-being of ****** communities through structural policy changes in education, health care and local government.

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