Refugee Resettlement Syndrome
June 16, 2015
ANN CORCORAN writes about the Sudanese refugee who was shot by a police officer in Louisville, Ky., after he threatened the officer with a seven-foot flag pole.
He spoke Dinka, a language of southern Sudan, according to court translation records. He struggled to communicate in English, his friends said. [He lived here since 2001 and could not speak English!—ed]
Manyuon fled war-torn Sudan in 2001 and settled in Nashville, according to Bart Weigel, communications director for Catholic Charities of Louisville, which offers resettlement services to refugees.
Imagine what it is like for someone who is mentally unstable, poor and from a primitive society to cope with life in modern America. Look at this man’s face. He looks intensely unhappy.
