The incident involving a white police officer and a group of black teens at a McKinney, Texas pool is, as you would expect, generating heated discussions on social media.
Ta-Nehisi Coates managed to be his typically eloquent self even in declining to write about the incident:
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That isn't to say there weren't some insightful responses:
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Awful people were, predictably, awful:
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Some solid career advice was, however, offered:
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Many on Twitter just up and went meta- on the responses:
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