She’s balancing a carryout container in one hand. Church food, I assume, since it’s Sunday and she’s wearing a dress. A dress, low heels and a wig, actually, and standing out like a sore thumb on the trail this autumn afternoon. “Is that a preacher?” She points to the pocket where Thom Hartmann is holding forth. A podcast. I tell […]
“I don’t feel protected or served,” I tell him. “I do,” he says. The back-to-back public executions of Alton Sterling (07.05.16 Baton Rouge, LA) and Philando Castile (07.06.16 St. Paul, MN) give him pause, and he concedes that something is rotten in the state of Denmark, but at the same time he wonders what it must be like […]
Here’s former NYC police officer and prosecutor Eugene O’Donnell quoted in a May 5, 2015 NY Times article titled “Police struggle with loss of privileged position“: There was a time in this country when elected officials – legislators, chief executives – were willing to contextualize what police do. And that time is mostly gone. I’m assuming that […]
