Tag: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Black Boy Suffering From PTSD After Doorbell Shooting Incident, Trial Looms

Ralph Yarl, the 17-year-old Black teen who was shot and injured after ringing a white man’s doorbell by accident, spoke out a year after the incident. As his shooter’s trial slowly approaches, the teen described how he still lives with the trauma of that awful night. Small Town Horror Story: The “Suicide” of Sandra Bland […]

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A Secret War, Strange New Wounds and Silence From the Pentagon

When Javier Ortiz came home from a secret mission in Syria, the ghost of a dead girl appeared to him in his kitchen. She was pale and covered in chalky dust, as if hit by an explosion, and her eyes stared at him with a glare as dark and heavy as oil. The 21-year-old Marine […]

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