Calling this terrorism is apt. Especially after you see that awful "man on the street" reaction. He feels about as disconnected from the police he sees as an Arab might feel in Jerusalem. He doesn't necessarily want to shoot them, but he's not going to help them either.

This was an act of domestic terrorism against LA's local government, perhaps with implications for everyone in the US.

But I don't think many people here understand the implications of terrorism. We understand that you can't negotiate with people who have already committed terrorism. They have to be neutralized. But the conditions that created one will create another. Lone wolves can't be infiltrated. Investigation and suppression don't work. Mass incarceration of people who fit a profile but haven't done anything wrong yet can stop terrorism, but it's immoral and expensive. So what can you do? You have to figure out a way to make the people who are likely to feel unincluded and oppressed feel more included.

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