The saddest part of this story about a cop shooting a shoplifter at a Chicago suburban mall is from the woman who came out to find her car shot up, behind the police tape and inaccessible until the crime scene gets processed:
Watching the scene from the department store’s window, Turner’s daughter Meghan said she was still planning on shopping elsewhere early this morning.
“I just need a nap so I can go back out at 5 a.m.,” she said.
Kind of beyond satire. Also, the mob mentality, so focused on buying that they don’t even see what’s right in front of their eyes:
Several shoppers approaching the blocked main entrance and walked to the edge of the police tape without breaking stride, prompting warnings from police not to duck under the tape. The shoppers were directed by police to an unblocked entrance north of the police tape.
There’s some deep metaphor in there, but I’m too full of turkey to sort it out.