Milwaukee burning, but not for justice

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Milwaukee erupted in violent riots this week after police shot a black suspect who was running from a traffic stop. But this is not a story of a racist cop gunning down an innocent young man, even though malignant activists want to shoehorn the facts into that expedient political narrative.

The public has heard of unjustifiable police killings, such as those of Walter Scott in South Carolina and Laquan McDonald in Chicago. But what happened in Milwaukee isn’t like either of those — not even close.

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