CNN Reporter arrested by state police while on air.

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If you need a good review article on this topic, I recommend, The Story Has Gotten Away from Us: Six months of life and death in America.  The thesis here is that the coronavirus and the racial injustice are the same story, and that for months, journalists had lost track of the rising violence committed by police.

What Black America Means to Europe is arguably good news for Americans, proving that we still are the world's largest exporter of culture.

And now we have a lynching

The city initially believed it to be suicide but - well - you know that's going to be hard for anyone to believe anymore.

They're claiming it was suicide, probably.  But in the meantime, this man's brother was shot and killed by the police a week later.  At least they missed the 7 year old in the car, but they shot her mother too.  At least she was out of the hospital in a few hours.  Police claim he was firing on them, and we have to take their word for it because there were no cameras.  Two dead in one family; just another day in America.

Meanwhile, closer to home, it looks like they're going to remove the statue of our city founder, Fra Junípero Serra, from the front of City Hall. You know, about that thing over enslaving (kinda) the local Indians and introducing a system of savage beatings to suppress their original culture. Father Serra was made a saint by the Catholic church, but it was so long ago, the culture was so different when he was canonized way back in 2015. Honestly this is a really complicated case where a man put himself at great risk to do what he thought was the right thing. In the process of saving souls, he brought along Spanish ideas of discipline and torture and inquisition. How I judge him depends on whether I'm looking at if from a deontological or a utilitarian ethical perspective.