July 8, 2016

• Snipers kill five police officers and wound six after a peaceful protest in Dallas.
• Police say suspect was upset about the latest recent police shootings, wanted to kill white officers.
• Obama: "Today is a wrenching reminder of the sacrifices [that police officers] make for us."
• Thanks to videos captured with phones, judges, prosecutors, and the public trust the police less.
• Smartphones push police reform by forcing white people to confront unpleasant realities about law enforcement.
• What happens to bystanders who film acts of police violence.
• Fatal police shootings are up nearly six percent over this time last year.
• The media’s tolerance for broadcasts of police killing African-Americans reflects an unconscious devaluing of black life.
• Tips for self-care when police brutality has you questioning your humanity.
• A cheap, unreliable field drug test used by many police departments sends innocent people, mostly black, to jail.
• When police depend on tickets to make money, it is reasonable to assume they will ticket more people.
• For years, the Chicago PD allowed its union to send a spokesman to shooting sites and lie about the victims.
• How the age of mass incarceration has ripped apart countless black families.
• If the NRA won't advocate for family of #PhilandoCastille, then it's an organization of paranoid white grievance and not gun rights.
• Three gun instructors on whether or not black people are at risk by carrying concealed weapons.
• Michael Brown's mom: Mothers are expected to keep the peace and to work for change; but nothing changes.
• Gay: If the video of his father’s death feels too familiar, the video of a child’s raw and enormous grief must not.
• James Baldwin’s “Report From Occupied Territory.”
• Sotomayor: People who are routinely targeted by police are not “isolated;” they are the canaries in the coal mine whose deaths are warnings.
• In case you missed it, or want to reread: The case for reparations.
• How to run from the police.
• Unrelated: Martin Shkreli moves on from Wu-Tang records, now wants rare Magic: The Gathering! cards.