Robert C. Koehler: Defunding ’justified’ murder
by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency
Jun 18, 2020
4 minutes
Well, he deserved to die, didn’t he? He fought, he ran, he grabbed the cop’s taser and fired it. And he was intoxicated, apparently. And he was blocking traffic.
“If an officer is hit with that Taser, all of his muscles will be locked up, and he’ll have the inability to move and to respond,” said a Georgia county sheriff, referring to the killing of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta on June 12. “This was a completely justified shooting.”
Completely. Justified.
Between the global outrage over police killings and the defenders of the police lies a void — a complete lack of common
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