Citation

Boyd RW. Lancet 2018; 392(10144): 258-259.

Affiliation

Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA. Electronic address: rheaboydmd@gmail.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31374-6

PMID

29937191

Abstract

Police killing black Americans is one of the oldest forms of structural racism in the USA. The act traces its roots to slavery. Yet it remains a tool for social control that violates black bodily autonomy, engenders racial inequality in access to public services, and re-inscribes the predominant racial order any time police indiscriminately and extrajudicially take a black life ...

Language: en