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Came the same month that sandra bland was added. capturing this concern, feminist author roxine gay wrote for the new york times on friday when people die in police custody or are killed by the police there are always those who wonder what the fallen did to deserve what befell them. he shouldn t have been walking down that street she should have been more polite with that police officer he shouldn t have been playing with that toy gun in the park. we don t consider asking such questions of a lion. we don t speculate why cecil was roaming the savannah. she says human beings are majestic creatures, too. may we learn to see this majesty in all of us. it s tempting to compare the suffering death of animals and the suffering death of black people as though they are in competition with one another and gain some zero ground for public ....