This all happens, for the second time in a week, as the presumptive presidential nominees bicker about a Star of David and emails and judgment most of all; at a time when we keep getting the kind of judgment rendered in Falcon Heights, Minn., on a Wednesday night.
You eventually hear one of the officers telling Diamond Reynolds to keep her hands on the wheel of the car. Somehow she remains calm in this terrible place and in these terrible moments, because she doesn’t want to become part of the shooting gallery in the front seat of Philando Castile’s car.
She says, “I will, sir. No worries. I will.”
There is the moment when the young woman’s voice begins to break. But does not shatter.
We hear one of the cops from the St. Anthony Police Department, assigned to police Falcon Heights, a small town north of St. Paul, say, “Get the female passenger out.” The young woman exits the vehicle, as told, as she is also told to “keep them up.” By now she knows that any sudden movement, even with a phone in your hand, can get you killed. The woman asks for her daughter, who has seen it all from the backseat, where she actually had a ringside seat to race in America, which is the third rail in America and always has been and always will be.
- America gets chilling look at what it’s like to be black and defenseless against trigger-happy cops, New York Daily News, July 7, 2016.
3. The 2016 Olympics have exposed to the world sides of Rio de Janeiro that most Brazilians would have preferred to keep out of sight. Raw sewage running into waterways. Chunks of concrete falling from the ceiling of a newly built tunnel. Stray bullets flying through the air. Not to mention that pesky foreign reporters keep venturing into the city’s favelas, where conflicts between drug gangs and security forces continue to simmer.
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