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Black lives matter. But sometimes the criminal justice system says otherwise. Last Friday, white ex–St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley was acquitted in his murder trial. In 2011, Stockley killed Anthony Lamar Smith, who’s black, minutes after telling his partner, “We’re killing this motherfucker, don’t you know”—words which were caught on audio recording. Today’s edition is devoted to Black Lives Matter and protesting racialized police violence.