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New Jersey scholar-activist discusses police violence as a public health issue
Scholar-activist Liza Chowdhury, executive director of Reimagining Justice Inc./the Paterson Healing Collective in Paterson, New Jersey, visited Assistant Professor Ijeoma Opara’s Community-Based Participatory Research in Public Health class on April 4 to talk about community-based public safety. One of her team's members, Najee Seabrooks, called 911 on March 3 to say he was having a mental health crisis, and after a four-hour standoff, was shot to death by Paterson police when he lunged at them with a knife.