“You would think that given how many people are having this experience, society would mobilize to make people feel safer,” says Jonathan Metzl, director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University Read more:
“I do feel like our entire country right now is traumatized by the fact that it feels like a mass shooting can happen anywhere at any time,” said Jonathan Metzl, a psychiatrist and sociologist who is director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University. “So I would say there is some sort of nationalized trauma happening right now.”
The NYPD said in a statement that although someone called them to report a man with a firearm on the subway, in reality the panic began after a man strangled and punched a 35-year-old victim on a southbound E train. There were no shots fired, and a gun was not found at the scene. “People do appear to be on edge,” said Brian Higgins, a former police chief in New Jersey and a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “But that doesn’t help you in an emergency situation.”
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