As a rule I try to blog about upbeat, interesting, cheerful things; if anything miserable happens, I’m sure you can find it out for yourself. However, earlier I came across some news from America which was just too disturbing for me not to flag up here. According to this, a severely disabled man has died after being shot by police, who assumed he was drunk. “An autistic, nonverbal teenage boy who was shot repeatedly by Idaho police from the other side of a chain link fence while he was holding a knife died Saturday after being removed from life support, his family said. Victor Perez, 17, who also had cerebral palsy, had been in a coma since the April 5 shooting, and tests Friday showed that he had no brain activity, his aunt, Ana Vazquez, told The Associated Press.” Needless to say, I find that truly chilling. How could any society reach such a fucked up point where such things are possible? How can American police be so trigger happy? How could they think this boy was any kind of threat?

If this can be read as any sort of reflection of the state America is currently in, I think we should all be very, very worried.