H.G. Reza

Credit: Illustration by Jonathan Bartlett

Why LAPD Didn't Have to Shoot on Skid Row

The man charged at the four American soldiers with a bayonet in hand. The pig-sticker made him a threat, but the wispy goatee hanging delicately from a pointed chin hardly made him look menacing. The confrontation seemed like a sketch from the theater of the absurd. He screamed incoherently, making......