All five officers have been charged with murder in the shooting death of Michael Brown. CNN's John Sutter says he doesn't think a federal police reform bill will get through Congress as a result of this tragedy. But even if reforms were passed, it's not clear to me that they would have made a difference in this particular case,. I think this is something for cities and police departments to tackle.
The response to the death of the 29-year-old has differed from that of previous cases of police killings; we ask what the tragedy indicates about how America deals with police violence. Our correspondent says a lawmaker’s murder in Afghanistan highlights the misery of women under the Taliban. And why a decades-old model of animal and human learning is under fire.
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