Medical Students 'Die-in' Over Police Misconduct
Rachel Maddow discusses the national "die-in" demonstrations which took place at over 70 medical schools, including Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
More than 70 medical schools are making the case that the criminal justice problem we have in the country of police killing people is on the scale now of a public health crisis. So today at medical schools across the country hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of medical students and doctors held these die-ins, in many cases with the blessing of the school’s deans and professors. They’ve been tracking the silent protest with the hashtag whitecoats4blacklives. At Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York over a hundred deans and doctors and medical students joined the protest. What began weeks ago as a reaction to police killings in Ferguson, Missouri and New York City has become a movement now that really seems to pop up everywhere. And today, to a lot of people’s surprise, where it popped up was the nation’s most prestigious medical schools as a political statement about the mission of being a doctor. Learn more.
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