How Fear Infects

by Patrick Appel

TNC connects the Oscar Grant case to the cop who pulled a gun during a snowball fight:

"Fear" is the common defense for officers who abuse the
state-sanctioned right to brandish lethal force, excusing everything
from the killing of Amadou Diallo to pulling a gun in the middle of a
snowball fight. The question, however, remains--If you scare this easy,
why are you a cop?

My old friend Julianne Hing has the best write-up on the Oscar Grant verdict, by far. Adam Serwer is in the...