A tragic and caring moment is captured here.

I’ve seen this mural but not in the context of the Cup Foods store.

Seeing the children in these pictures – and the drawing by the child – makes me start to think about the ways we talk with young children about what’s happening here and how they are processing what they see.

The day that the one cop was arrested (finally) just happened to be (?) the same day my nephew wanted to show me the police station he was building in Minecraft. I wasn’t sure why he was focused on a police station and he couldn’t really tell me. But I asked him if he knew that a policeman had just been fired and arrested. He was really surprised and ran to tell his mother the news.

Soon after this conversation I noticed this post about books for young people that give a more whole view of police at School Library Journal – I know his mother ordered one or two for him so curious to here the conversations that emerge out of that.

https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=Police-Picture-Books-Revisited-the-Lie-White-Adults-Read-to-Children-opinion

A whole story could be written based on this image. Would be good for this series at the NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/column/learning-whats-going-on-in-this-picture