DEPENDENCE DAY: While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Wayne Isaacs, an off-duty New York City statute enforcement officer fatally shoots Delrawn Small in a road-rage incident that Isaacs provoked.

       Postscripts:

• Isaacs originally claimed that Small reached into his “vehicle” (a legal term for an “automobile or truck” bearing goods, services or persons in commercial transit) and assaulted him.  But independently recorded videos revealed Isaacs to be a liar.
• Sixteen months later Isaacs was found not guilty of second degree murder.

       [added 1/5/2023] Thanks to the Pacifica Network for this entry.