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Reading comprehension: I said I live in "a suburb of Dallas," while the incident you reference happened in the city of Dallas itself. I even drew a contrast between my city and what "we've seen in Dallas and even other suburbs."

You'd have been better off noticing the contrast I drew and talking about McKinney, another suburb of Dallas, in which a cop infamously stormed onto the scene and threw 15-year-old girl in a bikini to the concrete and pointed a gun at a teenage boy who objected.[0]

But no, not that suburb either.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Texas_pool_party_incident




I missed that. But suburbs aren't exactly a flash point here. There are plenty of suburbs who don't only high degree holders who haven't had problems.


Ferguson is a suburb of St Louis. Kenosha is a suburb of either Milwaukee or Chicago, depending on who you ask. McKinney is a suburb of Dallas. Most of the footage from "Minneapolis" was actually from suburbs of Minneapolis. Current political advertising is heavily focused on using current footage from protests and warning that our suburbs are next if the other candidate is elected.

Police violence isn't only a suburban problem, but it is definitely also a suburban problem.




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