Boston: Marty Walsh (now Joe Biden’s Secretary of Labor) Bill’s second post deals with the question of whether race is the driving factor in fatal encounters between the police and American citizens. Bill cites Rich Lowry for the proposition that race is not. Lowry states: [T]he cases [of black and white shooting victims] are largely indistinguishable — how they started, how they played out, and, emphatically, how they ended. This is the overall sense that one gets from the Washington Post’s famous database of police-involved shootings. Reading through it, there is no stark racial d...