…f the family of police-murdered Botham Jean and the black female judge who presided over that case. That good judge not only allowed the murdered man’s brother to publicly forgive the murderess but then let him actually, passionately, embrace her. To the astonishment of forty-five million black people, and the relief of untold millions of white people, amazingly, she, the judge! herself, performed the selfsame outrageous and unheard of ritual by warmly hugging the killer-cop in open court. And then — again in open court — our forgiving judge presented the convicted murderess with her own …
Herbert Dyer, Jr.