This is early enough to predate the COVID-19 explosion, but there're facets of it that raise some very troubling thoughts. ie: with the culture of violence so deeply-seated in the American psyche, how hard is it going to be to get a force of Brown-Shirts going - if in fact we're not already seeing it, but still unable to recognize it because its existence is being denied officially almost every day.
WaPo:
A Georgia prosecutor on Tuesday said a grand jury should review the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, who was killed in February after being chased by two armed men who told police he looked like a burglary suspect.
The lack of charges thus far has enraged advocates across the country, who have expressed deep frustration with both the shooting of the unarmed man and how the case has been handled.
News around Arbery’s killing reverberated Tuesday after a graphic video that appeared to depict the shooting went viral on social media. Lee Merritt, the family’s attorney, shared the video Tuesday afternoon and said Arbery’s family was forced to watch for the first time online.
“Mr. Arbery had not committed any crime and there was no reason for these men to believe they had the right to stop him with weapons or to use deadly force in furtherance of their unlawful attempted stop,” Merritt wrote in a statement. “This is murder.”
This country is sick - and the FUBAR situation with COVID-19 is only the latest physical aspect of it.
Our biggest problem is that we have a national mental illness which starts with deliberate ignorance - which leads to a generalized gullibility - which makes for easier political manipulation - which can rapidly manifest itself in gun violence.
There are disturbing parallels with Tim Wise's Divide-n-Conquer lessons.
What better way to keep the populace in line than to set one demographic against another?
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