"The unjust and brutal killing of Renee Nicole Good-a middle-class white woman-by a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis in early January occurred less than a mile away from where George Floyd-a poor black man-was unjustly and brutally murdered by a local police officer five years earlier. I wonder if the horrible parallel that connects them, in terms of geography and civic violence, is just a coincidence"
"I'm talking about the rupture of a civilizing thread-historic events, like the start of the Civil War at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington, and the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, by pro-Trump rioters. I'm not saying there is some obvious pattern in the link between these two parallel events. But ever since Donald Trump's inauguration in 2017, I've been making comparisons to the past,"
The unjust killing of Renee Nicole Good by a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis occurred less than a mile from where George Floyd was killed five years earlier. The geographic proximity links two instances of civic violence and raises the possibility of a rupture in the collective fabric between May 25, 2020 and January 8, 2026. The rupture is framed as comparable to historical turning points such as Fort Sumter, the September 11 attacks, and the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol. No obvious pattern is claimed, but the era since Donald Trump's 2017 inauguration is characterized by comparisons to past national crises and concerns about deepening social demoralization and erosion of civil norms.
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