The shooter, officer Richard S. Neri Jr., is white. The victim, Timothy Stansbury Jr., was black. Scientific research has a say here too, probing whether our rawest reflexes can be primed by modern fears based on race. —Erik Baard —Misfire: Why Brain Structure Makes Unintended Shootings Inevitable (The Village Voice)
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