text: The first five paragraphs paint a picture of Canadian cops in Canadian cities being a bunch of armed Canadian racist barbarians slaughtering Canadian black folks willy-nilly.
  
  But the the remaining paragraphs talk about a research study that used, as its data for analysis, the track records of, um, thousands of Americans living in the United States of America, the country to our south.
  
  Wow.
  
  That is some strained acrobatics in the field of journalistic gymnastics. I hope the reporters and editors didn't pull their backs out of alignment in executing that stretched triple-flip.