photo above: Motorcycle officers in a motorcade escort for the coffin of Dallas police officer Lorne Ahrens, one of the five victims of the gunman-involved shooting that took place at an otherwise peaceful protest, after funeral services at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, July 13, 2016. (David Ryder / The New York Times)
an excerpt:
It’s not so much that terror has invaded the US, but that our culture of violence was exported, incubated and rebranded abroad before creeping back over our borders. Dallas held a mirror to a foreign-inflected version of the all-American alchemy of guns, dehumanizing racism, militarism and structural violence. Officials tell us, “The answer is never violence” — while legitimizing state violence under the guise of “security.”
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