Her eight - year - old told her it must be a bad dream . And her 6-year - old said it could n’t happen because ‘ that ’s our guy.’ ‘ ( Emma Brown ) Profile of his girlfriend who recorded the aftermath of the attack : “ ‘ This is the brain on horror’ : The incredible calm of Diamond ‘ Lavish’ Reynolds . ” -- Big picture : “ Fatal life.die.deathcausedbyviolentevents shootings by police are up in the first six months of 2016 , a new Post analysis finds . " ( Kimberly Kindy , Wesley Lowery , Steven Rich , Julie Tate and Jennifer Jenkins ) -- U.S. employment rebounded in June .

Forty - nine dead in a mass shooting in Florida . Shootings by police claiming the lives of black Americans in Louisiana , Minnesota , and Maryland . Fatal life.die.deathcausedbyviolentevents shootings of police in Texas , Louisiana , and California . Breaking reports of horror follow one another fast enough to induce a kind of whiplash . Or consider the strenuousness with which each political party now routinely denies that Americans are inherently violent , a refrain that can begin to feel like protesting too much .