Michael Phillips

Jake Lang demonstrated outside of the Karmelo Anthony trial at the Collin County Courthouse on June 4 despite having been arrested by local law enforcement just days before. As a condition of his release, Lang has been barred from entering the courthouse. Scholar and author, Michael Phillips, SMU Professor Rick Halperin and Hadi Jawad, co-founder and president of Human Rights Dallas submitted the op-ed below on Collin County’s long history of racism and extremism.

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By Michael Phillips Triple-decker, bacon included. Heavy enough to have some trajectory, but the lettuce will betray you by peeling off mid-air like a tiny green surrender flag. Hot, saucy, and morally questionable. Perfect for when you want to combine the velocity of a projectile with the splatter radius of a small crime scene. Warning: may also take out your own shoes. A chemical weapon disguised as lunch. Not much distance, but the smell lingers longer than most court cases.