Racially Motivated Police Brutality Is a Community Public Health Issue in the United States

Ongoing global protests against police violence and racism were heightened in 2020 after the deaths of Breana Taylor George Floyd, whose made headlines worldwide raised awareness Black Lives Matter movement, which targets structural people USA abroad. There are many documented links between policing health-related outcomes, including but not limited to fatal injuries that increase population-specific mortality rates, adverse physiological responses morbidity, psychological stress, arrests, incarcerations, legal, medical, funeral bills cause socioeconomic deprivation, poor school performance, incomplete high-school education entering higher education, intersecting oppressive structures result systematic disempowerment destruction civil liberties. This paper makes case for classifying exploring brutality as a public health issue.