A 66-year-old white woman in Connecticut is alive and unharmed, despite brandishing a realistic-looking BB gun outside a police station, then pointing it at officers while shouting “Boom boom boom” and “Shoot me!”

I don't know what to do with good white people.

After the grand jury decision not to indict the New York police officer who used an illegal chokehold to kill Eric Garner on camera—the latest reminder of the petty regard in which we hold black life in this country—the backlash was swift.