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Patrick Eddington's avatar

"The state will always have an excuse for why the recipients of its force deserved it." You should put that on t-shirts, mugs, etc. I'd buy at least one of each.

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Sherry Murray's avatar

Nice thoughtful piece, as usual. And it’s true that troubled imperfect people who break the law but are otherwise non-violent do not deserve to be gunned down. Period. But the real issue is of course race. These days, the example I use to remind people about the inequitable application of “Justice” and use of force is the guy who broke into Speaker Pelosi’s home in SF. To recap this white guy breaks into the freakin Speaker of the House’s home,threatens to kill her, beats her husband with a hammer in FRONT of the police who then apprehend him without a taser being launched or a shot being fired- even though he was clearly violent. There can’t be doubt in anyone’s mind that if this were a person of color, they’d be dead. Or more recently the 84yo racist who thought it was ok to try to kill a black man for knocking on his door. Fortunately, he didn’t kill him and was arrested and hopefully will spend the rest of his years behind bars. And he will definitely deserve it.

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