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Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0

The post asks readers to accept that crime trends across a nation of some 340 million people can be explained by a single clip and a demonstrative pronoun. ‘THIS IS WHY’ is not an argument; it is a finger pointed at a screen. Noticeably absent is any word about due process, or who decided which people qualify as ‘OUR KILLERS’ before they were sent anywhere. When the head of government starts sorting human beings by caption, the volume of the capitals is the least alarming thing on the page.

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