And it's so challenging because you mention something about, ‘Follow the rules,’ ‘Put your hands on the wheel,' say, ‘Yes sir, no sir.’ All of those things we are taught to do, which means then we’re not living in a free space. Kevin Washington: 'I think one of the things that's very important for us to do is to be able to clearly articulate what are some of the challenges that we're having to talk about, and they're microaggressions - some call it bigotry, some call it they psychological duress of the enslavement legacy.

Interview Highlights: Kevin Washington & Camille Cooper Here & Now’s Robin Young speaks with Kevin Washington, president of the Association of Black Psychologists, and Camille Cooper from the Yale University Child Study Center, about talking to young people about police-related violence. What do you tell children and young people about what they are seeing and hearing? Footage of the shootings is everywhere on social media and TV. In Dallas, a gunman killed five officers, and wounded seven others plus two civilians during a protest.

The shooting deaths of two black men by police officers last week in Baton Rouge and Minnesota led to protests across the country. (Laura Buckman/AFP/Getty Images) This article is more than 6 years old. A young boy sitting in the section reserved for family of the police officers killed in Dallas lights a candle during a 'Dallas Strong' event on Jin Dallas, Texas.

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