Violence in Baltimore is Rooted in Baltimore’s Invisible &

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"City leaders via policies and practices help inflict structural violence through an apartheid budget, discriminatory development in the White L, and redlining/subpriming in the Black Butterfly. This structural violence is built on a foundation of historical racial segregation and serial forced displacement that constantly undermines the health and viability of Black neighborhoods and extracts Black wealth. This structural violence includes mass lead poisoning that helps elevate violent behavior in Black neighborhoods and contributes to medical neglect after exposure to such a powerful developmental toxin and neutotoxicant.

Psychological violence is inflicted through race-based trauma and racial battle fatigue arising from police brutality or through urban PTSD related arising from high levels of community violence. In the Black Butterfly, lower income Black residents regularly see death at the hands of police and community members. Hence they often have nowhere to turn for service and protection. Public health in Baltimore does not name race-based trauma or racial battle fatigue and most Black residents don’t have access to mental health services to address their issues.

Cultural violence was clearly at play when Baltimore Whites threatened by Black people moving into their blocks during the Great Migration referred to the threat as the “Negro invasion.”

Taken together, this language of “Negro invasion,” “war room,” “packs,” and “thugs” paints a picture of a group of people worth neglecting and shunning at best and deserving of hyperpolicing and police brutality at worst. It’s this language that helps maintain racial segregation, justifies forced displacement, and condones differential hyperpolicing in “high crime areas” due to Terry v. Ohio (1968), Illinois v. Wardlow (2000), and Utah v. Strieff (2016)."