“…While it is beyond the scope of this project to make the case that police brutality exists, is widespread and long-standing, and traumatizes those in minoritized communities, these realities have been well documented by scholars in Black studies, criminal justice, law, social work, political science, and other fields (for review, see Graham et al, 2020; Newman, 2015; Santiago & Ivery, 2020; Schroedel & Chin, 2020; Schwartz, 2020). As the 13 th largest city in the United States, Fort Worth and its residents have been part of national trends related to police brutality and calls for racial justice by Black Lives Matter and other organizations, especially after the murder of George Floyd by a White police officer in May 2020 in Minneapolis.…”