America’s neighborhoods are crying.
As the tears fall, our confusion rises.
In the aftermath of two back-to-back, unnecessary police shootings of men whose crimes in Louisiana and Minnesota appeared only to have been their color, a peaceful protest in Dallas erupted into chaos.
The chaos was not the product of the protest. Nor was it a product of overaggressive Dallas police officers. It was pent up rage of an anguished veteran who took sniper shots at police from the elevated floor of a parking garage.
Twelve officers were hit, along with two civilians. Five officers have died. After hours of barricaded negotiations, police killed the lone shooter with a robot-delivered bomb.