Editorial: In the New York subway chokehold death, we must force ourselves to wait for the facts

Can Americans for once wait for the actual facts?

There are clear and dangerous signs of how the influence of social media and the tendency to see everything through an unbending ideological prism is hurting our access to, and understanding of, the truth. It’s a pernicious problem, profoundly dangerous to our shared democracy and our mutual respect for the rule of law, and a matter about which far too few on the left, or the right, are speaking out.

Exhibit A here is the May 1 death of Jordan Neely, the 30-year-old man