QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:

● Shot: When protesters call for ‘defunding the police,’ what does it mean?

—Minnesota Public Radio, June 8th.

● Chaser: Council advances plan to dismantle Minneapolis Police Dept.

—Minnesota Public Radio, June 27th.

● Hangover: With violent crime on the rise in Mpls., City Council asks: Where are the police?

—Minnesota Public Radio, yesterday.

As James Lileks writes, with a screen-shot of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s coverage of the story yesterday, “This . . . is just priceless. Utter, complete, total fools. No small irony in the fact that they end up blaming the Black guy in the end, too.”