A long time ago, when I was younger and dumber, I did a police ride-along with a high school classmate who had gone… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sean Trainor (@ess_trainor) June 07, 2020Two memories stand out to me. The first is how my classmate spent most of the night: rolling around suburban Maryla… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sean Trainor (@ess_trainor) June 07, 2020****
My classmate was so bored that he’d punch pretty much anyone’s plate into the database. But he devoted special atte… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sean Trainor (@ess_trainor) June 07, 2020To punctuate his boredom, my classmate would respond to other cops’ traffic stops. When he heard another cop had pu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sean Trainor (@ess_trainor) June 07, 2020****
In this instance, a colleague of his had pulled over a car for some trivial reason — a broken tail light or expired… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sean Trainor (@ess_trainor) June 07, 2020The guy (who was white) had gotten out of prison earlier in the week and hadn’t had a chance to renew his license.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sean Trainor (@ess_trainor) June 07, 2020****
Not content to leave this poor guy with a warning, the officer who initiated the traffic stop asked him to step out… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sean Trainor (@ess_trainor) June 07, 2020Eventually the scene came to a boil. I don’t know exactly what happened. I seem to recall the guy taking a swing at… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sean Trainor (@ess_trainor) June 07, 2020****
His family looked on screaming and crying as the cops hauled him away. It had been a short family reunion.
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Sean Trainor (@ess_trainor) June 07, 2020As we drove away, my classmate told me that, because this guy had violated his parole, he would likely do a multi-year stint in prison.
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Sean Trainor (@ess_trainor) June 07, 2020****
And that was night: a full shift devoted to manufacturing crime — desperately searching for reasons to pull people… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sean Trainor (@ess_trainor) June 07, 2020In short, nothing he did made anyone safer. He didn’t protect or defend a damn thing, except white supremacy and cl… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sean Trainor (@ess_trainor) June 07, 2020****
What I learned that night is that behind every Derek Chauvin or Darren Wilson — behind every dramatic eruption of v… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Sean Trainor (@ess_trainor) June 07, 2020The cruelty isn’t an accident; it’s the point.
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Sean Trainor (@ess_trainor) June 07, 2020
The Obama Diary 