Life in black and blue

Crime is increasing
Trigger-happy policing
Panic is spreading
God know where we’re heading
Oh, make me wanna holler
They don’t understand
– “Inner City Blues,” Marvin Gaye

For the second time this week we have heard of another police shooting of an African American. Tuesday saw the killing of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Lousiana, and Wednesday night Philando Castile in the St. Paul suburb of Falcon Heights, Minnesota. While all of these shootings have bothered me, the Falcon Heights shooting hit closer to home, and not just because it was only a few miles from me.

What makes this one more real to me is that Mr. Castile could have been me.