The Amsterdam News gathered experts to discuss contributing factors, including race and mental health, that may play a role in why people commit these random acts of violence en masse and how we can help prevent more from occurring.
gathered experts to discuss contributing factors, including race and mental health, that may play a role in why people commit these random acts of violence en masse and how we can help prevent more from occurring.
“When you call something gang violence, I think people’s empathy goes down to zero because they think those people are killing themselves,” said Powell. “You know, it’s their problem. Nevermind the victims.” At the time of the attack, the cameras were out at three stations due to a technical issue, said police. For about 30 hours after the shooting he had blended in with commuters on the bus and trains. By Wednesday afternoon, thanks to James and others calling the tip line, he was taken into custody in Lower Manhattan and then to a federal court in Brooklyn.
Powell said that the emotionality or interior lives of Black men are always spoken about with an undue amount of concentrated attention on their anger. She strives to deconstruct the stereotype of the ‘angry Black male.’ She said that there is a prevailing presumption that anger is somehow bad or pathological when it’s actually a legitimate response to emotional suffering and injustice.
Dr. Joel Dvoskin is a clinical psychologist based in Tucson, Arizona who studies mass homicides as well as people with serious mental illnesses and substance use disorders. He compared mass shooters to someone who commits suicide, as in they want to give up on life as they’re living it because of psychological pain and a loss of hope.
“There’s some common themes in people who commit mass shootings,” said Dvoskin. “They are often angry, often depressed, they often feel insignificant, and have grievances. But there are a lot of people who have those and don’t shoot anybody.” “We would be missing a critical moment,”said Powell, “for us to look at the systems that we have set up and ask ourselves, are we serving every person who has a mental health need well, and if we’re not, what are we going to do about it?”
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