That's not democracy. That's something else. Something that looks like fascism.

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If a state kills a citizen of the state, the state doesn't just have duty towards that citizen or their family or community; the state has a duty towards all other citizens. The state must tell us, all of us: here is what happened & why. When the state fails to do that &, instead, spins narratives?

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When the state takes the life of a citizen in a democratic society, time really should stop. We can analyze videos of whether the citizen did something wrong or not; Or if the state had reason to react or not. But no matter *what* we see in those videos, the state needs to take the death seriously.

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Thou shalt not commit blasphemy against Samuel L. Jackson’s monologue in Pulp Fiction, motherfucker.

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Non-US news feels no obligation to walk on eggshells, and is much more blunt about the backdrop for all the US coverage being “a military and economic superpower is being run by a deranged imbecile, and this is scary for the rest of the world.”

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