Recently my wife Andrea shared we some random news item she saw about an asteroid that came really close to Earth but just missed us, narrowly avoiding obliterating us into oblivion.
Andrea greeted this as good news.
Me, I'm not so sure.
If it's not one damn thing, then it's another.
There's still so much gun violence going on including four mass shootings in California this month alone.
There was the story of the child who brought a gun to his elementary school and shot his teacher. A child!
And we don't need guns for violence. Did you hear about the young Asian student stabbed in the head by an old white woman who thought she was doing the country a favor by removing one more Chinese communist spy?
And then there's this.
In Memphis on January 7th, Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, was pulled over earlier this month and arrested for alleged reckless driving. The punishment for this most heinous offense was for police officers to beat the unholy crap out of this unarmed person as revealed in recently released body cam footage.
His severe injuries from the assault put Tyre Nichols in a hospital where after three days, he died due to cardiac arrest and kidney failure.
The brutality of the beating left Nichols in what was described as an “unrecognizable” state.
What is sadly NOT unrecognizable is where we are right now.
Another unarmed black man beatened and murdered by the police? Yeah, we've been here before. We recognize this place.
This repeated cycle of brutal violence by the police against citizens is disheartening.
Couple that with the overall level of violence and hate and fear we live with every damn day, well....
It's enough to make me think that damn asteroid did us no favors by missing us.
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