Potentially fatal (to sell).

  • Potentially fatal (to sell).

MONDAY, DECEMBER 1 Hot on the heels of last week’s parade of flubbed justice and national protest comes this week’s parade of flubbed justice and national protest, commencing with the pronouncement made by President Barack Obama, who today pledged to devote the final two years of his presidency to addressing the “simmering distrust” between minority communities and the police. In an attempt to put money where his mouth is, Obama “requested $263 million for the federal response to the civil rights upheaval triggered in Ferguson, Missouri,” reports Reuters.

•• In other elliptically portentous news from Reuters: Today the head of the Chicago Police Department announced that his officers will start wearing body cameras

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David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest...