We've had enough of the police brutality, of the colorblind mythologies and post-racial rhetoric, of the sweet-talk, of the calls for non-violence; of mass incarceration and systemic poverty, of trigger happy cops and crying black mothers, of the Eric Garners and Renisha McBrides, the Michael Browns and Tarika Wilsons; of black tears and white terror.
Despite the growing death toll, lawsuits, inquiries and innumerable vids of Taser happy cops on YouTube, TASER International, who generated a record $162 million in 2015, is still doing great biz in 2016.
Mr. Ferrell is a dweeby precinct pencil pusher; Mr. Wahlberg, a trigger-happy cop who falls from grace after accidentally winging Derek Jeter at Yankee Stadium.
If all young black men bought a belt and pulled their trousers up tomorrow, they still wouldn't be able to outrun a trigger-happy cop's bullet.
We must deal with the reality that our society created both the trigger-happy cop and the boy he shot, who apparently thought it was cool to carry around a gun that looked like the real thing.
The next few years bought blessings (a healthy buzz and a choice Jimmy Kimmel appearance), a curse (a nightmarish Houston show cut short by a Taser-happy cop) and eventually a hiatus, during which both Stephens and Vogel launched other projects.
He shuns candidacy for the role of party fixer, smoothing scandals wrought by vengeful tarts, trigger-happy cops and crooked cockfighters.
Black people are being shot dead in the street almost daily by trigger-happy cops and two ostensibly smart men, who have both produced excellent work and who pride themselves on being engaged academics responsive to the needs of the black community, are firing broadsides at each other.
Too many young black men and women are murdered in America by trigger-happy cops.
"Trigger-happy cops are still engaged in senseless murders of people of color".
While these guys managed avoid being shot by trigger-happy cops, others have not been so lucky.
