Historian and Lecturer. US History. Race and Memory. Current project: Mourning at the Museum
Dr Jenny Woodley
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Kohen Wiley, a 1-year-old child, is dead after a Mississippi police officer shot into a car and killed him. Family members say his mother was holding him in the passenger seat.
The officers were responding to a shoplifting call over a box of diapers at the Senatobia Walmart.
when you've been relying on the social contract to keep you safe from society as you gleefully violate the social contract to attack society but then suddenly society informs you that you're somehow in breach of contract
There is a direct line from "not immediately condemning hooligans marking out their territory with flags as wrong 'uns" to "pogroms on the streets of the UK". One was always going to lead to another. The best time to stop this was then, the next best time is now.
Not holding my breath though.
