The video was so bad that Fox News didn’t immediately brand Alex Pretti a domestic terrorist. A day later their website talks about “unrest” but not the clear as day, no question about it, execution of an American citizen by an unrestrained paramilitary police force. Let the record show Alex Pretti died while attempting to shield a woman from being tear gassed at point blank range by a gang of ICE officers. He was unarmed, prone on the ground when shot almost a dozen times by multiple officers. Alex and Renee Good and Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez deserved better. All three deserve to still be alive.

Public protest and private prayer both help to heal the soul. Both are likely equally effective at exciting change. Not great at crowd estimates but I would say at least 10,000 people felt the same way. Together we trudged through the snow to listen to speeches and then march down Michigan Avenue. A couple days before they did the same in Minneapolis where it was about -11. Not “feels like” -11 but good old fashioned -11 that feels like Hell has frozen over. And Hell it must be there right now. With 5,000 thugs descended on a city of about 500,000.

Don’t know how this ends but it will likely get worse before it gets better. Eventually though it will get better. At least we have to believe so cause the alternative is just too fucking bleak.