Column: Watching videos of police brutality can cause mental health problems for people of color
The video of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols being brutally beaten marks another person of color being killed at the hands of police officers, and it adds to the seemingly endless stream of videos plastered on the internet and treated like theatre of people of color being killed. Exposure to such cruelty can cause mental health challenges, especially among people of color, while doing nothing to actually address the problem of police brutality.