“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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      It’s never been about “protecting the public” unless that public consists of old rich white people and/or land/people owners. Always been a class war. Always will be a class war.

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      Cops are run away slave patrol 1.0

      That is why police forces were formed in the first place. The job hasn’t changed