specifically for discussing violence and discrimination issues after the racist massacre a year ago in May at a supermarket. Several people have spoken on the program about witnesses who are still too traumatized to speak for themselves.
There were employees who were not physically injured, but who saw people they knew being shot just a few feet away from them. They were helpless to protect anyone and in fear for their own lives. They saw bodies being torn apart by bullets and blood splattered everywhere.
They have not been able to go back to work. Some of them have a hard time just leaving their home to go anywhere. They are not eligible for funds established for victims of the massacre because neither they nor relatives of theirs were shot. So they did not have mental health care until they applied and qualified for Medicaid. Same with unemployment, and then disability claims which were denied for some of them since they were not physically injured in the shootings and had not qualified for mental health disability.
Similar things have happened to shoppers who were in the store or parking lot at the time. A few shoppers were just a couple feet away from the door when the shooter began firing at others and they saw the shooter kill the guard at the door. They have been unable to enter a retail store since then.
Not only are those former employees of the supermarket and the customers suffering from the trauma, but so are their families whose financial status has dropped and who see their parent or sibling suffering daily from trauma.
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