How we can help prevent another FedEx shooting

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Tomorrow will be one year since a gunman murdered eight people and injured others at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Indiana. Today we are leading the newsletter with a column from Gaganpal "Garry" Singh Dhaliwal about what can be done to prevent more mass shootings.

How we can help prevent another FedEx shooting

By Gaganpal "Garry" Singh Dhaliwal

Every April, Sikhs around the world celebrate one of the most religiously significant days in our faith: Vaisakhi. It is a time to reflect on the founding of Sikhism as we know it more than 550 years ago.

For the Sikh community in Indianapolis, however, this month also marks a tragic anniversary we all hold close to our hearts: one year since a gunman walked into a FedEx facility, senselessly murdered eight individuals and injured and traumatized many others.

Help Ukraine defeat Russia by seizing oligarchs' yachts and Picassos

By Sheldon Whitehouse and Tom Malinowski

The split screen is stomach-turning: In Ukraine, Vladimir Putin's rockets fall on fleeing refugees, missiles gash occupied apartment buildings and hospitals, and civilians huddle in metro stations as bombs fall above.

Outside Ukraine, mega-yachts ferry Russian oligarchs between tropical islands, private jets shuttle them to ski vacations and priceless art adorns the walls of their villas.

Putin’s enablers – and even members of his family – live abroad in laundered luxury off the wealth they stole with his permission.

I won't watch Patrick Lyoya's struggle with police. What's the point?

By Austin Bogues

I try not to watch the videos anymore.

I still regret scrolling through Twitter during the spring of 2020 and unwittingly seeing the video of Ahmaud Arbery being shot down as he fled attackers through a Brunswick, Georgia, neighborhood. I think I was eating a peanut butter sandwich that I didn't finish. I can't unsee the image. I can't forget the violent crack of the gunshots.

I never watched the video of George Floyd a few months later having the life slowly, methodically choked out of him by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

And for now, I don't have any plans to watch what's been described as a gruesome video of an unidentified police officer shooting Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head after a traffic stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

I've seen enough.

How we can help prevent another FedEx shooting