Reckoning With Racial Trauma in Rehabilitation Medicine

The story of structural racism and brutality toward black and brown people is well known to the communities who endure it. While the suffocating stream of violence affecting these communities has been historically entrenched, this reality has too often been unseen or ignored by others. But as reports spread of George Floyd ’s death in police custody in late May, the United States appeared to reach a tipping point. In this latest instance of a notorious pattern, a video showed Mr Floyd in handcuffs and subdued by 3 officers, with his neck lethally pinned beneath a fourth officer’s knee.

Source: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - September 23, 2020 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Raj Telhan, Kimberly M. McNeil, BA, Angela R. Lipscomb-Hudson, Efosa L. Guobadia, Michel D. Landry Tags: Departments Source Type: research