It’s a story out of a bad Hollywood message movie:

A black man is shot in the back seven times by police, in front of his kids.

In the ensuing protests, an armed white teenager is allowed by police to freely patrol the streets until he kills people and then is allowed to get away.

If this was a movie, I’d write a scathing review of how contrived the plot is.

It’s Crash-level bad writing.

And yet, it happened.

And events like it will continue to happen.

And what’s worse, a large portion of the population of the United States seems to believe that the police were justified in shooting a man in the back…

And the police were justified in allowing an armed teenager to patrol the streets after a government curfew others were being arrested for breaking…

And a teenager was justified in killing two people.

Why is that?

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