When Jonathan Ross pulled the trigger, years of training, trauma,<\/p>\n
and politics converged in a single second.<\/p>\n
To his family, he is a gentle man of faith, a devoted husband to his Filipina wife,<\/p>\n
a father who came home from Iraq but never really left the battlefield.<\/p>\n
To his critics, he is the armed face of a system they see as cruel, racialized, and out of control.<\/p>\n
The country now stares at that intersection of fear and duty.<\/p>\n
Ross once bled in the street after being dragged 100 yards by an undocumented driver;<\/p>\n
this time, he walked away while a protester lay dying.<\/p>\n
One side calls it self-defense, the other calls it murder.<\/p>\n
Somewhere between those absolutes is a man who went to work,<\/p>\n
followed his orders, and will carry this moment for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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