Vox Sentences: “We don’t need sympathy. We need everyone to respect our lives.”

Another black man killed by police; the 2016 Olympics is going to be a disaster.

Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.

TOP NEWS

His name was Philando Castile

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• On Wednesday night, Philando Castile was killed by a Falcon Heights, Minnesota, police officer while seated in his car during a traffic stop.

  [Vox / German Lopez]

• Castile's partner, Diamond Reynolds, streamed the aftermath of the shooting to Facebook Live, where it has been widely shared — but was taken down for an hour due to a mysterious glitch.

  [Motherboard / Joseph Cox and Jason Knobler]

• Castile was a school cafeteria supervisor who was a "role model" to the children at his school. But even if he weren't, he wouldn't have deserved that death. His career doesn't matter.

  [Time / Melissa Chan]

• Castile had been pulled over 31 times by police since 2002 for misdemeanor traffic violations like "driving without a muffler." On the 32nd time, he was killed.

  [Tom Winter via Twitter]

• He was killed for reaching for his wallet after telling the officer that he had a gun and a concealed carry permit. He acted in full accordance with Minnesota law. It didn't matter.

  [The Atlantic / David A. Graham]

• His mother told CNN he'd done everything she always told him to do when dealing with the police — "the talk" every black parent in America has had with a black child. It didn't matter.

  [Gawker / Jazmine Hughes]

• "To be black in America," writes Hannah Georgis, "is to exist in haunting, mundane proximity to death at all moments."

  [BuzzFeed / Hannah Georgis]

• To be white in America, I (Dara) would add, is to be constantly tempted to consume that risk at a remove and call it "solidarity."

  [Vox / Dara Lind]

• Or as Beyoncé put it: "We don't need sympathy. We need everyone to respect our lives."

  [Beyoncė.com / Beyoncė]

• If you are wondering how to feel or what to do, here are some very simple questions to ask about how your local police are held accountable. Start there.

  [Vox / Libby Nelson]

Sex, news, and videotape

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• Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson, who quietly left the network last month, has filed a lawsuit alleging that chair Roger Ailes repeatedly harassed and solicited a sexual relationship with her.

  [Vox / Emily Crockett ]

• After news of the lawsuit broke, other women immediately started releasing their own allegations against Ailes. Carlson's lawyers estimate that 10 women have come forward so far.

  [The Daily Beast / Lloyd Grove]

• Ailes may have underestimated Carlson, in particular — she is by all accounts quite intelligent, despite the dumb blonde role she was forced into on Fox.

  [Huffington Post / Amanda Terkel and Ryan Grim]

• (She was also forced into the role of sex object — as this supercut of colleagues commenting on her appearance on air makes painfully clear.)

  [Bloomberg Politics]

• In real life, she's a smart woman who's been honest in her memoirs about being sexually assaulted by a powerful man soon after she arrived in New York.

  [Mediaite / Lindsey Ellefson]

• The outcome of the Ailes case is unclear. Many of the people involved in sexual harassment suits — including the accusers themselves — often have an incentive to resolve the case out of court.

  [ThinkProgress / Jessica Goldstein]

• One thing to keep in mind: This isn't about Fox specifically, or conservative media. This stuff happens everywhere, including at avowed progressive institutions.

  [Vox / Emily Crockett ]

Riohnonononono.

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• The 2016 Summer Olympics begin in under a month. Are you excited? You should not be excited. You should be terrified.

  [Gawker / Ashley Feinberg]

• They're being held in a country whose speaker of the house just resigned and whose president's impeachment trial will start shortly after the Olympics end.

  [The Guardian / Jonathan Watts]

• They're being held in a city whose state doesn't have the money to pay government workers their salaries.

  [EuroNews ]

• That includes cops, who have started protesting outside airports to warn tourists they can't protect them, with signs reading, "Welcome to Hell."

  [The Nation / Dave Zirin]

• Given that Human Rights Watch accuses the Rio police of engaging in a campaign of secret executions, however, they are not exactly the most sympathetic messengers.

  [Associated Press]

• And given that the government has evicted thousands of citizens to make room for Olympic facilities, you might think that the cutbacks are at least in service of the games.

  [Vox / Johnny Harris]

• LOL, nope. A bike path that was supposed to be part of a scenic "Olympic city" cycleway collapsed in April when it was hit by a wave, killing two people.

  [LAT / Claire Rigby]

• The city's anti-doping lab has been suspended — which is not something you want to see happen six weeks before an Olympic Games.

  [NYT / Rebecca R. Ruiz]

• The bay where the sailing competition is being held is literally poisoned with pollution.

  [PBS Newshour / Jon Gerberg and Lulu Garcia-Navarro]

• And on one of the volleyball beaches last week, human body parts washed up on the shore.

  [Associated Press]

MISCELLANEOUS

In a meeting with congressional Republicans, Donald Trump reportedly pledged to protect Article XII of the Constitution, which is not a real thing. [Washington Post / Sean Sullivan and Philip Rucker]

• Star Trek Beyond is giving John Cho's Sulu a husband, making him the first out gay canonical Star Trek character.

  [Herald Sun / James Wigney]

• The National Institutes of Health is looking to collect genetic data from more than 1 million volunteers. Are you in?

  [Reuters / Toni Clarke]

• First US Attorney for Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz pursued programmer Aaron Swartz until he died by suicide; now she's going after an aide to the mayor of Boston for supporting union workers. In case after case, she's pursued defendants for doing things few people would consider really wrong.

  [Huffington Post / Daniel Marans and Ryan Grim]

• You'll hear a lot of commentary about the white working class this year. Here's why you should take it with a grain of salt.

  [Washington Post / David Hopkins]

VERBATIM

"The opposite of gentrification is not a quirky and charming enclave that stays affordable forever; the opposite of gentrification is a decline in prices that reflects the transformation of a once desirable neighborhood into one that is looking more like a ghetto every day." [New Yorker / Kelefa Sanneh]

• "The groom will kiss Kate in her cubicle during a company party. He will feel young and alive. She will taste like Tic Tacs and Yale."

  [New Yorker / Colin Nissan]

• "Yes, I’m the other senator from Arizona – the one who didn’t get captured – and I want to talk to you about statements like that."

  [Jeff Flake to Donald Trump, via Washington Post / Sean Sullivan and Philip Rucker]

• "[Bernie Sanders] benefited in the House and Senate from the Democratic majorities and the seniority system that let him move into [senior] positions without having to actually do anything to help other members. In fact, he made a point of not doing that. He’s been a member of the club without having to pay dues."

  [Former Nancy Pelosi Chief of Staff John Lawrence to Bloomberg Businessweek / Joshua Green]

• "It came as a big surprise to me that she didn’t love me. I thought it was going to be, ‘Thank you, Mommy, for everything you gave me.’ I tried to make her life as beautiful as possible. I had a very famous salon in New York."

  [Sandra Hochman to the Guardian / Jon Ronson]

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