Excuse for using your joke as a jumping point, but it’s no coincidence that two of the more thoughtful, provocative voices on police violence are Greg and Bomani, two journalists who are nominally in sports, for the same reason it took a threatened boycott by a football team to make Mizzou a national story.

It’s not silly. His point isn’t about comparing the situations, it’s about the mindset of the media. In Missouri journalists were angry about being denied access because they wanted to report on it. But if you’re gonna complain about that under the guise of, as a journalist it’s my responsibility to cover these…

As a black man, that’s a pretty cool thing you just said. I think POC, in general, want justice but on a more personal level just want to live in a world where a white guy and a black guy can see the same dashcam footage and feel the same thing, that’s like the bare minimum...to know that this situation is supremely…

Why even use a gun? A taser or nightstick would have easily incapacitated him. Hell, tackling him from behind and cuffing him would have worked and the kid would still be alive. The only “good” thing about this is getting Van Dyke off the streets and likely behind bars where he belongs. And maybe the changes CPD is…