From Michael Brown to Sonya Massey, a decade of police antiblack violence causes grief, worry and coping for Black parents

By Seanna Leath, Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
Sheretta T. Butler-Barnes, Professor, Dean's Distinguished Professioral Scholar, Washington University in St. Louis

A decade ago, Michael Brown Jr., an unarmed Black 18-year-old, was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.

The fatal incident began when the officer, Darren Wilson, saw Brown and a friend walking down the middle of a street. Wilson claimed that Brown…

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