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PACEs Connection Reacts: The Derek Chauvin Trial Verdict & Police Brutality in the United States April 30th, 2021 12pm PT

 

Join us for our second episode in a new series called "PACEs Connection Reacts" where we will be viewing the world through a PACEs science and trauma-informed lens.

For this PACEs Connection Reacts, join PACEs Connection's Race & Equity Workgroup as we react to the trial of Derek Chauvin, an American former police officer who was convicted of the murder of George Floyd.  The murder of George Floyd, along with a string of other murders of Black Americans in 2020, spurred international protests of police brutality.

We will be debriefing and sharing our reactions and reflections concerning the verdict and inviting audience members to do the same.

Please join us to engage in an interactive discussion focused on the state of American policing, the relationship between police brutality, community violence and racial trauma, and the impact of the guilty verdict on our nation.

PACEs Connection Reacts: The Derek Chauvin Trial & Police Brutality in the United States

When: Apr 30th, 2021 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Register in advance: https://us02web.zoom.us/meetin...JedaXqnXKWR5UJdhheDD

Topics of discussion may include:

  • The History of Policing in the U.S.
  • The Historical Trauma of Police Brutality
  • Oversurveillance of Communities of Color
  • Trauma-Informed Policing
  • Racism & Discrimination in Policing
  • Racial Trauma
  • Implicit Bias
  • Critical Race Theory

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I believe there are those who genuinely pursue and attain their position of authority with the sole purpose of assisting their fellow human beings; however, I further believe that many law-enforcement employees β€” be they private-property security, community police, prison guards or heavily-armed rapid-response police units β€” also target such fields of employment for authority/power reasons, albeit perhaps subconsciously.

It's a profession in which they might storm into suspects’ homes, screaming, with fully-automatic machineguns or handguns drawn, at the homes’ occupants (to β€œface down!”), all of whom, including infants, can be permanently traumatized from the experience. On some occasions, these β€˜law-enforcers’ force their way into the wrong home, altogether. That’s potentially when open-fire can and does occur, followed by wrongful deaths to be β€œimpartially” investigated.

Those that do get into such a profession of (potential or actual) physical authority might do some honest soul-searching as to truly why. Meanwhile, some people who may now be in such an armed authority capacity were reared with an irrational distrust or blindly baseless dislike of other racial (etcetera) groups.

It sometimes seems to me that a large number of human beings, however precious their lives, can be considered disposable to a nation. And when the young children of those people take notice of this, they're vulnerable to begin perceiving themselves as worthless. It’s atrociously unjust and desperately needs to stop!

Although their devaluation as human beings is basically based on their race, it still reminds me of the devaluation, albeit perhaps subconsciously, of the daily civilian lives lost (a.k.a. β€œcasualties”) in protractedly devastating civil war zones and sieges. At some point, they can end up receiving just a few column inches in the First World’s daily news.

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