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An NBA Player Is Missing the Playoffs Because the NYPD Broke His Leg—Why the Sports-Media Silence? • The Nation • 2015 May 22

The NBA Finals may be determined by an act of police violence. This is an incendiary fact, yet a curious media silence surrounds the saga of injured Atlanta Hawks guard Thabo Sefolosha. The nine-year pro has been absent from the playoffs after a group of New York Police Department officers broke his leg in April following a late-night confrontation outside a Chelsea nightclub.

Thabo Sefolosha provoked by New York police before his arrest, report says • Washington Post • 2015 Apr 16

As several investigations continue into the altercation with New York police officers that left Thabo Sefolosha with a broken leg, a new report indicates that an officer was the instigator in the fracas outside a Chelsea nightclub early in the morning of April 8.

Air Bus • The New Yorker • 2015 Jun 1

Blade works like Uber. You download an app, and when you find yourself needing a chopper you press a button to launch a charter flight, splitting the fare with other passengers. The system has brought the cost of helicopter travel from around thirty-five hundred dollars—C.E.O. territory—to six hundred dollars for a one-way forty-minute trip to or from East Hampton.

I’m definitely not advocating for violence, but I can see how some people might resort to “Second Amendment remedies” because of constant helicopter traffic near their house.

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