My morning trip through the Intertoobz revealed that a lot of people have jumped on the sucker play that was run on The Washington Post regarding the circumstances surrounding the death of Freddie Gray, whose back was broken while he was in the custody of the Baltimore P.D. And, in truth it does seem to be the perfect example of a story that is completely true without being accurate. Most of all, it reminded me of a guy named Willie Bennett.

... (the story of Willie Bennet) ...

That's the story I recalled today when I read the Post story -- a story that plainly is meant to drown out the cries of a community for justice, that is meant to allay the night terrors currently afflicting the folks in the suburbs, that is meant to tell a comforting story and, in the telling, take the heat off what pretty plainly is a police department gone renegade. For all the pushback against this latest report, and the pushback has been strong, the death of Freddie Gray is passing into anesthetic fiction now, the way these stories always seem to do so, when the truth is too grim to contemplate.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a34701/the-ghost-of-willie-bennett/