Kwasi Seitu, 62, says he doesn't have post-traumatic stress disorder. Instead, he says, he has suffered from constant traumatic stress since he was a kid.
Nearly 50 years after he experienced what he says was regular police brutality as a teen, talking about the abuse that sometimes included chokeholds makes Seitu emotional. He would be walking down the street, he explains, minding his own business and cops would roll up and demand to see identification.
"Any resistance means they’re putting their hands on me and there was never just one of them," the Washington, D.C., resident and property manager recalls, sniffling. "Police jumped me. These are grown men."
[For more of this story, written by Sierra Lewter and Jayne O'Donnell, go to https://www.usatoday.com/story...g-the-usa/578997001/]
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