EXCERPT:
KRUG: “When people talk about 'snitches get stitches,' or when we think about history of anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa and necklacing, and that kind of violence towards people who are collaborating or who are working against their communities, we have to consider a radical moment in 2018 in which people are using machetes to hack apart a 15-year-old boy who’s working with the police. The way the story about his innocence and the inherent violence of the people who hacked him apart become the narrative we tell about how the loss of innocence is the story we mourn and it’s so much more difficult to understand what kind of freedom could we achieve by being willing to confront those within the community who are working against the interests of the community as a whole at the end of a machete. So I will end there, thank you for listening."