After the protests, lingering trauma: the scars of ‘non-lethal’ weapons

Dozens of protesters sustained serious injuries from teargas, rubber bullets and stun grenades, used by police to disperse crowds during the George Floyd protests.

Six days after George Floyd was killed by a white policeman, thousands of protesters in Minneapolis took over an on-ramp leading to the University of Minnesota. Among them was Soren Stevenson.

It was a warm evening, a few hours before the 8pm curfew set in. The crowd advanced toward a bridge leading to the university where Stevenson, 25, had recently graduated from with a Masters of...