“One-Year-Old Boy Killed After Officer Fires at Vehicle in Mississippi,” said the New York Times headline (6/16/26). So, a “one-year-old boy”—what most people would call a baby—was “killed after” a police officer fired at a vehicle, but there’s no verb you could use to connect those two things?

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      They are not “out of control.” They are performing the function they were invented to do - repressing the working class to protect liberal elites and their precious private ownership of next-to everything.