As mourners gathered outside a northern West Virginia funeral home on Aug. 24, two plainclothes officers with a fugitive warrant swooped in from separate vehicles, called Owens’ name and shot him dead, spattering his 18-year-old son’s shirt with blood as horrified loved ones looked. [More]
It’s a testament to authoritarian conditioning how many comment posters with no additional information are desperately speculating about excuses that would justify this.
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