Small Findings

The findings this week:

1. Polio
   • Wikipedia on Polio
   • The 1956 Polio Epidemic
   • Fooling the coronavirus proofreading machinery
2. White people closing ranks around atrocities, then and now
   • The Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery
   • Emmett Till on Wikipedia
   • Hundreds of armed counter-protesters confront Black Lives Matter rally in Ohio
   • White Defendant Allegedly Used Racial Slur After Killing Ahmaud Arbery
   • Where Ahmaud Arbery Ran, Neighbors Cast Wary Eyes
3. The Cambridge Police
   • Cambridge police superintendent owns up to spewing about Joe Kennedy, Ed Markey on department Twitter account
   • Denied official report of police tweet discipline, councillors issue their own censure for incident
   • Motion over redirecting $4.1M in police funding causes council to explode in anger, accusations - Cambridge Day
   • Councillor stalls order to see police property list, citing 'systemic racism' over checking testimony
   • March to defund the police in Cambridge

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