Columbus had yet to have a moment that mirrored this one, in part because of those magnificent lies that some in cities tell themselves. That these things don’t happen here, don’t happen to us. Yeah, our cops aren’t great, but they ain’t just killing folks in the street (even before Henry Green’s murder, this was, of course, untrue—from 2013 to 2016, Columbus police shot twenty-eight people, twenty-one of them black).
