Editorial Board
ICE Shooting Should Be Mourned — and Investigated
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Photographer: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images
The simple question that Army lawyer Joseph Welch posed to Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954 — “Have you no sense of decency?” — helped end a witch hunt that was tearing the country in two.
The question seems almost quaint now, given the vitriol that routinely infects US politics. And yet, in the aftermath of the killing of a Minneapolis woman, Renee Nicole Good, by a federal agent, it’s unfortunately relevant again.