the news reported a tussle with the grandmother, during which the firearm discharged. everyone in the family says there was no tussle, that the grandmother was throwing herself over the baby when aiyana was shot in the head.
what do you call the blinded, terrified groping of a grandmother who knows her grandchildren are in the room, blasted from safety and sleep into chaos and danger, whose granddaughter is on fire? how do you comfort a man like aiyana’s father, which was forced to lie face down in his daughter’s blood by the same police officers who killed her?
the police shot and killed aiyana. they shot her in the forehead. her family saw her brain on the couch. by accident, perhaps. which doesn’t even matter to a 7-year-old. you don’t get let off any hooks for your intentions in this case, officer." (source)
I want all of us to think about how often these 'accidents' happen.
I want all of us to think about where these 'accidents' happen.
Because they aren't happening in New Trier.
They aren't happening in Westwood.
Then I want you to think about those to whom these 'accidents' occur.
And that's all I want you to do. Think.
No talk. No discussion.
Because I am too goddamn angry to say another word about this.
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