But in that case I'd refer you to the other stories in the article. See also Emmanuel Cafferty and David Shor and Kelly Donahue. I'm not pretending there's an epidemic of these cases happening. And I'm not even retending it's exclusive to race. But, there's a significant and worrying trend towards punish first, ask questions later.

My concern is about what this does to already fragile race relations and racial discourse. The cracks are only widening. And this kind of thing makes matters worse,