Civic Diary 7/9/2016

(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.comand Steve’s Tumblr)

What a hell of a week. Philando Castile and Alton Sterling shot by police. Police shot by an ex-military sniper in Dallas. I won’t lie, it’s left me a bit numb.

But here I am writing, because this is part of my project to be better, and we could all use being better.

With the shootings first of all, there’s really two parts – the first is excessive use of police force against minorities, which is clearly an issue. The second is...