The
other night some of us watched a recent Canadian semi-documentary called (I think) THE
STORIES WE TELL. It's an attempt to
reconstruct the life of a dead mother, her marriages, etc. It starts off
slowly, but then it gets engaged in the fact that the various family
members knew her in different ways--and then in vastly different
ways--and who has the right perspective on her and so on. An unusually
complex film and the best I've seen in some time.
***
Andy Lopez has become a story we tell. Yesterday
I went to a demonstration at the courthouse. A 13-year-old named Andy
Lopez, carrying a toy gun that resembled an assault rifle, was walking
through his neighborhood. A deputy sheriff approached him from behind
and yelled at him to drop the gun. When the child turned around to see
what was happening, the deputy shot him seven times in eight tries,
killing him. The demonstration cried out for justice, but what would
that be?
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