the aural:
portishead - you’ll find the earth boring

and we all thought (rather, hoped) that it won’t happen again after amadou diallo. but it did.

51 shots? without checking IDs? without reasonable cause? without any goddamned thing except a fender bender! i get a sickly gut feeling that the most these police officers will get is a slap on the wrist. on the upside (though it means very little), at least bloomberg is calling it out as “excessive” and “inexplicable” … which is a lot more than how giuliani went about things in 1999.

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