"In a press conference following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old Veterans Affairs ICU nurse, Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey presented a reasonably provocative question that I have posed numerous times at various junctures over my 50-year lifespan as a Black man and career as a social scientist: "How many more Americans need to die?" I remember asking this same question when police officers shot and killed Breonna Taylor, Tamir Rice,"
"Meanwhile, the U.S. president was proposing unscientific remedies. "So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light," Donald Trump said in an April 2020 White House briefing. "I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?""
Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old Veterans Affairs ICU nurse, was fatally shot, prompting Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey to ask, "How many more Americans need to die?" Multiple high-profile killings of unarmed Black people, including Breonna Taylor, Tamir Rice, Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin, are presented as part of a broader pattern of racialized violence. The Derek Chauvin murder of George Floyd was seen by many as an inflection point, yet federal reforms such as the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act remain unpassed. Pandemic-era deaths and the promotion of unscientific remedies highlight persistent failures in public policy, accountability, and public safety.
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