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wnylib

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20. Buffalo's NPR station has a program called What's Next? that was created
Mon May 8, 2023, 06:23 PM
May 2023

specifically for discussing violence and discrimination issues after the racist massacre a year ago in May at a supermarket. Several people have spoken on the program about witnesses who are still too traumatized to speak for themselves.

There were employees who were not physically injured, but who saw people they knew being shot just a few feet away from them. They were helpless to protect anyone and in fear for their own lives. They saw bodies being torn apart by bullets and blood splattered everywhere.
They have not been able to go back to work. Some of them have a hard time just leaving their home to go anywhere. They are not eligible for funds established for victims of the massacre because neither they nor relatives of theirs were shot. So they did not have mental health care until they applied and qualified for Medicaid. Same with unemployment, and then disability claims which were denied for some of them since they were not physically injured in the shootings and had not qualified for mental health disability.

Similar things have happened to shoppers who were in the store or parking lot at the time. A few shoppers were just a couple feet away from the door when the shooter began firing at others and they saw the shooter kill the guard at the door. They have been unable to enter a retail store since then.

Not only are those former employees of the supermarket and the customers suffering from the trauma, but so are their families whose financial status has dropped and who see their parent or sibling suffering daily from trauma.

... Drum May 2023 #1
I dont know how I would handle it. Which is why I want the gunners to have to be forced Eliot Rosewater May 2023 #2
I would be wrecked and ruined, Hamlette Leghorn21 May 2023 #3
K&R BlueWaveNeverEnd May 2023 #4
That's why combat veterans are never the same leanforward May 2023 #5
he has had lots of professional help. I can't imagine what he would be like had he not had help. Hamlette May 2023 #8
Buffalo's NPR station has a program called What's Next? that was created wnylib May 2023 #20
K n R... JoeOtterbein May 2023 #6
A friend was commenting earlier today that we should just keep the flags niyad May 2023 #7
Yep, then bring them down very publicly to... JoeOtterbein May 2023 #11
I am so very sorry. Did not mean to cause you more pain. niyad May 2023 #12
Thank you for reminding us Tumbulu May 2023 #9
I was just thinking of what a flow chart would look like if you counted the rippling effect. chowder66 May 2023 #10
yeah, this one hit me hard because of him Hamlette May 2023 #13
What disturbs me the most... DET May 2023 #14
I don't get why republicans don't freak out about their kids having to go through those drills Hamlette May 2023 #15
Perhaps there should be regular shooter drills on Capitol Hill. Delmette2.0 May 2023 #16
They had one on Jan 6th and FAILED dickthegrouch May 2023 #17
active shooter drills for kids A-OK Skittles May 2023 #18
The word is malaise May 2023 #19
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