Andy Lopez and Freddie Grey

This is the tale of two district attorneys. In Baltimore the local state's attorney investigated the police homicide of a young black man arrested without cause. At the end of three weeks, she indicted the six officers involved. A year of so back, a terrified deputy sheriff near Santa Rosa shot a Latino child--shot him six or seven times--and killed him because the child was playing in a vacant lot with a toy gun. Our elected district attorney went into the usual long stall, hoping interest in the homicide would fade, and then eventually she ruled out an indictment. The scared deputy is back on patrol, so you may want to stay inside. And the strategy worked. The D. A. is doing fine, thank you, except maybe in the small hours of the morning.