SECOND TAKE
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Stop this mess, all lives matter
The US nation desperately needs cooler heads and an end to a season of death — so far it has had neither
15 September 2020 - 15:38
The ambush-style shooting of two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies at the weekend as they sat in their patrol car at the LA Metro station in Compton was cruel and disgusting, as were the words some demonstrators reportedly shouted outside St Francis Medical Centre, where the two deputies were being treated.
Witnesses said some in the crowd outside the hospital shouted, “Death to police” and “Kill the police.” The sheriff’s department tweeted that some shouted, “We hope they die,” and blocked the hospital’s emergency entrances...
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