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spiritually and psychologically is little incidents of violence that have this ripple effect that you sort of traced in that piece. i think in the big picture there is this black suffering in america. we suffered every step along the way. it seems normal. people try to go about their everyday lives. industry to go to school, try to go to church, be with your families. but piece by piece it s taken from folks and the burden spread across the entire community of black death, and black pain. losing a mother, losing a son. you see that young man with tears running down his cheeks. when you traumatize you create other trauma. you respond by carrying weapons or self-medicating. or like in that household, like that family every corner there is hurt, depression and sadness. what do you do with that? here s what pisses me off about this, chris. we have the national blueprint to fix this problem. after 15 years of are continuous war and engagement, one thing the country has done right, is re
what they can do is a port support organizations that are going out, as we have seen in tremayne s piece that are focused on fixing these efforts in the community. and there are some who are in chicago working specifically on mental health, on dealing with trauma specifically. there are so many folks on the front lines who are responding in the immediacy of the crisis and the trauma. when the gun shots ring out and when pain starts to ripple immediately there folks were sitting with the children, the mothers. unfortunately so much weight ends up being on the shoulders of the matriarchs and patriarchs of these families who lose one, two sons, a grandson. but they re also when you go door to door, neighbor to neighbor, they re all experiencing that. thankfully in a city like in chicago, philadelphia, and a camden and a detroit, people are out there every single day trying to not only bring attention to it, but trying to heal it. when we come back, how the shocking number of shootin
her brother was murdered in 2008. now a family support specialist, she helps others heal. when you go into knees communities, is there a sense that everyone is trauma stitize some way? it s hard to say they are not. because it s not it s not like every time i do an assessment with someone that they don t express positive to me that they ve experienced some level of trauma. it may not have been directly in the immediate family, but they know a friend, they know a neighbor. they know someone who is closely connected. they may have been at their church. post-traumatic stress disorder is through the fabric of the urban community. more than 600 people were shot and killed in chicago this year, mostly on the south and west sides. it feels like everyone here has lost someone. do you feel like you re traumatized? absolutely. it takes a toll on a person when things like that happen. especially when your kids wasn t bad kids. you know? and something like that happened.
you got to talk about the economics. not police. the trauma that folks are seeing inside the home, but also the repeated exposure to violence on the streets. people are wound up and traumatized. i know i have ptsd. it s just off the charts there is no help for us in the city. the people in this room feel like they have ptsd. they personally feel trauma. raise your hand if you feel like you have trauma. let me talk to you. you re wearing the button of someone on there. yeah. he was two of two people i lost within a week s span. i have to acknowledge why there is so much tension in this room is because people are hurting. i m joined now by msnbc national reporter trymaine lee who has been reporting on chicago for us all year. laura washington, jamal green founded majesty all stars. he joined us in the town hall in february. you saw him in the clip there, as did dimitri roberts, a former police officer who was also at the town hall and grew up on the