It’s Friday afternoon and there are plenty of things to write about but I’m going to once again point out that a major “news” publications is intentionally slanting the story of Manuel Paez Terán’s death in a way designed to stir up outrage.
There is of course nothing wrong with stirring up outrage when outrage is warranted but what New York Magazine (and many others before them) are doing is lying to their readers about this story because they are partisans with an axe to grind. The NY Magazine story is titled “How to Criminalize a Protest” and Teran’s death plays a major turning point in the saga of how protests against a police training center became a pitched battle between far left protestesters and what the author dubs “the police state.”
Cop City immediately became one of the first major tests of the post-Floyd political order. People had spent 2020 begging for an end to…
