A friend and I were the only two people there when Stanley was shot. I saw it happen and was running toward them when the gunman turned toward me. He ran around a corner, behind a hedge, and a motorcycle gunned off a few seconds later, so I knew there was someone else waiting for him. I had to choose between chasing them or tending to Stanley. I was trained in CPR so I stayed. I couldn’t save Stanley because he was hit in the upper chest – possibly the heart and/or windpipe – and he died in less than a minute. I was glad I stayed so he didn’t have to die alone. I attended the memorial service and met Stanley’s sister, a very kind but clearly broken-hearted lady. I told her that he didn’t suffer long, which was true. It all happened so fast.

I found this story because I’m writing a book that the story of Stanley’s death (and more importantly, his life) will be told in. Your father is an excellent writer. Thank you for posting this.

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The _actually_ shocking part (and this ties in AB74 with the political pressure that leads to arbitrary bans on pacifiers) is Fiona Ma stating that, while investigating possibilities of regulating events, they “found out later on that, constitutionally, you can not ban a type of music”.

That is a statement I would expect to come across on theonion.com… she may as well have said “we found out later on that, constitutionally, you can’t just put all black people in prison.”

On that note, if you can handle it, put your cup down and read the Fox News comments. I feel like pulling my hair out. Starnes’s article plays perfectly into the paranoia that many who are having a hard time keeping up with change in this evolving society are facing.

P.S. The link to the UCD policy manual in the 4th paragraph is broken.