2 Police Confrontations, 2 Very Different Outcomes

Indrani Sen
Momentum
Published in
2 min readSep 3, 2020

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Photo: Kerem Yucel/Getty Images

On the same day last week — Sunday, August 23 — two American men had violent encounters with police officers.

You’ve heard about one of them: Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is now paralyzed, after police shot him seven times in the back, while his three sons, aged three, five, and eight, watched. Blake had been trying to break up a fight and was walking back to the car…

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Indrani Sen
Momentum

Editorial director at Medium, mom, gardener, cook. Formerly at Quartz.